Writing about my mother - risky?

MotherOfDragons
Sat, 27 Aug 2016 16:38:42 +0000

It all depends on how you present your challenge. If you blame your mother, for example, “due to my mother’s paranoia, I had no friends”, I don’t think this would be a successful essay. If you talk about how you have overcome challenges-such as struggling with making friends, and then finding ways to overcome that struggle- specifically, then relate them back to your mother’s troubles, that may be more successful.

I would be very careful with this choice, though. Mothers can have a lot of baggage for not only the author, but the person reading the essay.