Lock Your Mom

The Story

We started giving locks away to single moms in 2015. We do this because Marla was a single mom when her son was small.

Being a single mom was the most difficult time in Marla's life. Mother's Day was specifically bittersweet. When you have a small child and it’s Mother’s Day and virtually everyone around you has a partner who is celebrating their “motherliness”… well it can feel sad. She remembers that feeling and she wants to give back in a small personal way.

The exclamation point!

Our locks have 6 sides on which to engrave names, words, messages...anything. I was thinking about what to engrave on these very special lock and "Mom" did't quite work because that is not universal. What IS universal is the powerful, speechless feeling of motherhood. The !!! of motherhood - both how it feels to be a mother and how one feels about their mother...so that's what we did.

Nominations

We will, as always (since 2015), invite you to nominate a single mom you
know, and we will send her a heartlock with a “!” engraved on it for the “!” of
motherhood.

This is our way of thanking single moms for all they do, and this thank you
is especially poignant when children are too small to say thank you or “Happy
Mother’s Day” themselves, which is coincidentally the most intense time of
parenting.

Follow #lockyourmom

Giving the locks is a small thing in the grand scheme of things but we have found that they make the recipients happy. It is that simple. To date we have given away thousands of locks to single moms all over the country 
— we even gave some away in our vending machine — and 
we are not done yet.

If you are just joining us and want to know what it all means, follow the #lockyourmom hashtag on Instagram.

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