Mother’s Day will be here this weekend, but if you ask me, every day is Mother’s Day.

Just not in the nice, dandelion bouquet sense.

No, in the sense that every day, someone somewhere — and usually everyone everywhere — has some great advice that they just have to give to the next mother they see. This advice comes from other moms, it comes from books, it comes from warning labels on products: “NEVER leave your child unattended.” (Never? Not even when the kid is sleeping, the stove is off, and your bladder is about to explode?)

And of course it comes from that mother of all mothering advice: the parenting magazine, overflowing with impossible crafts, brilliant new fears, and expensive solutions to the problems you didn’t even know you had. So here is what I would like for Mother’s Day: A day without advice.

Most of the moms I spoke to would appreciate that, too.

“My cousin was over and I was just slicing up pizza for my daughter and she had to run over and show me, ‘You shouldn’t cut pizza with a knife! It’s a mom-thing to cut perfect pizza bites with a scissors so they’re not too big,'” an upstate mother of one, Suzanne Driscoll, said.

Forget about the fact that her cousin thinks precise pizza pieces are critical because that way each bite presents the same amount of cheese. Think about the fact that she believes it a “mom thing” to obsess over pizza bite perfection.

Moms are officially in charge of over-obsessing these days, which is too bad, since moms have always obsessed. (See, “Preservation of the species, comma, mother’s role.”) Strangely, now we are expected to be much more obsessive than we were in the time of saber tooth tigers.

Just look at the one of the helpful articles in this month’s Parents magazine: “The Great Outdoors.” “Now that the weather’s warm, go outside with your baby and get moving!” the article enthuses. “We’ve pulled together the gear and accessories you need for a fun (and totally safe) day in the sun.”

Thus begins four pages — yes a FOUR PAGE SPREAD — on that very difficult and demanding activity: Spending a day outside with your kid.

Wait! Did I say

day

— as in an uninterrupted series of hours? Of course, the sun’s rays are far too damaging in the middle of the afternoon, “so plan your outdoor activities for the early morning or late afternoon, when the sun isn’t as strong,” the magazine says.

It goes on to suggest all sorts of accessories you’ll find useful for this big expedition, from a set of $16 “Clip-It-Alls” — plastic clips that “keep your stroller blanket from getting caught in the wheels” — to a “Cool Bike Trailer” that will set you back $590. If you are so foolhardy as to borrow someone else’s $590 stroller or baby backpack, the magazine’s “tip” is this: “go to cpsc.gov to make sure it hasn’t been recalled.”

Recalled! Don’t even get me started.

Everything is being recalled these days, usually because a piece of it may eventually fall off and a child may end up choking on it. Time to start recalling all those dimes, I say! Not to mention buttons.

But back to the “Great Outdoors” story: Before you even head out the door you are now supposed to be worried about a dangerously defective stroller, a child who is ripe for skin cancer, and a blanket that just may get caught in some totally overwhelming tangle with the wheels. Time to turn around and hit the Scotch.

But hey — this is all helpful advice, right? Just trying to make sure you don’t screw things up!

A Park Slope mom who writes about parenting, Nancy McDermott, says she avoids parenting magazines because, “I find the advice is contradictory. And it makes me conscious of all sorts of things that just come naturally. ‘Teaching your kid empathy’ — stuff like that. I just hate it!”

That’s the problem with unending advice. It tends to undermine whatever self-confidence you had. The author of “The Case For Make Believe,” Susan Linn, cites the baby bath thermometer as a good example of what parents are up against these days.

Until this gadget came along, parents tested water temperature by dipping in their wrist. If the result was, “Yeowwww!” the water was too hot. If the result was, “Brrrr!” it was too cold. Parents did not need a thermometer giving them advice.

“Corporations are doing everything they can to convince us that we need their products in order for our children to flourish,” Ms. Linn said. But for our children’s sake, as well as our own sanity, she says, “We should trust ourselves.”

That’s great advi … uh … that’s a great Mother’s Day message: Trust yourself. Play in the sun. And enjoy your bouquet of dandelions.

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