Being a mother never really stops. Even when they’re grown and out of the house, most mothers will still worry about their kids, constantly. And, for most kids, no matter how old they get, they will still use their mothers as their emergency contacts. So, when a mom woke up to a million missed calls, she feared the worst.
Meredith Thornton of Arkansas is a mother to seven children. She trusts them, but still worries. She never sleeps with her phone turned off, in case one of them needs her for an emergency. But one night, she broke tradition and turned it off for some reason.
She awoke to find her phone switched off. Turning it back on, the mom of seven found that she had a bunch of missed calls from her 18-year-old. Her heart dropped, and she feared the worst. “My world stopped. My heart stopped,” she told Today. “What made it worse was the timing. He gets off work around 11:30 at night, and those calls came about an hour later. It lined up with something terrible, like a car wreck or a mental health issue.”
Blind Panic For Mom
Pulling herself together, she managed to get herself to his bedroom to check on her son. When she arrived, she found him in his bed, happily asleep and safe. She nudged him into a semi-state of consciousness and asked him what all the stress was about.
Her son rolled over and mumbled something about a text to his shaken mom. She left the sleepy teen to his dreams and picked up her phone again. Sure enough, there was a text waiting underneath all the missed call notifications.
It turns out that all he wanted was a Microsoft login code from her. All that stress, and unnecessary worry, and all he needed was a simple code. She had been pulling out her hair and woke in a blind panic for nothing.
Her son didn’t realise how much his mom worried about him. As he grows, he will learn not to cause her unnecessary stress like that, I hope.