When I was a kid if you talked back to your mom, it wasn't mom you had to worry about...it was dad... Mom took care of us, fed us, bathed us, clothed us.... dad was in charge of discipline. The best way to get into it with dad was to be disrespectful, rude, or unthankful to mom... The punishments ranged from slap in the mouth to spankings... and they hurt... I was afraid to talk back to my mom, and she loved my sister and I equally. She did not do much of the disciplining, but I can say my dad went to great lengths to give out equal punishment... I got no favoritism...
All moms love as hard as they can, I think we as kids tend to see it only from our prospective...
When I was a child I thought as a child, but now as an adult I understand, dad worked as hard as he could to make sure mom could stay home and raise us properly... and mom stopped everything she was doing in her life so she could raise us properly... I could never be a mom it is far to hard...