reversing of roles, mother & daughter

My daughter loves to brush my hair as I do hers, but this morning I had a pain in my shoulders, at 47, I am feeling more aches and aware of my own mortality more and more.. My daughter asked me if she could help me and really took the role seriously.

It occurred how the role of mother and child especially a daughter does start to reverse as we age as parents and our children become more mature, she is only 9 but she is very nurturing... this I think is the beginning of that cycle and her journey into being a caring adult, as well as being hopefully one day a mother... it made me think how I take time with my own mother and how my mother is more vulnerable now she is older, how I feel as her daughter to protect her, how she used to protect me. And now the baton is being passed to my daughter sometimes. Even thought the simple task is brushing my hair for me, the sense she gave me as my daughter and taking care of me was strange yet reassuring as I let go of the control as mother to her.

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