Have you ever heard of an X-Men producing food and nourishing others? Yeah, me neither. Most mothers are able to nurse their children (and sometimes even other children) with simply milk from their breasts. Now, tell me that's not a freaking superpower. I am still in awe of the mother's body's ability to create something that can sustain a human being for at least the first six months of his life.

Sure, some X-Men can heal others with their powers, but can they do so with a kiss and a hug? I don't think so. If my child falls on the playground and scrapes his knee, he runs to me so I can kiss the knee and make it all better. In fact, not only are moms able to help their their kids recover physically with a single kiss, but emotionally as well. Be jelly, X-Men.

Mothers can simultaneously hold an infant, cook dinner, answer phone calls, clean the kitchen, and do some laundry. They can nurse their newborn, eat, work, and hold a perfectly sound conversation all at once. If multitasking won awards, mothers would win one every day. It's as if mothers have 10 hands, all working together for the greater good.

"This is going to end poorly. Someone is going to get hurt," is what I say to my children when they are running around the house like two wound up bunnies. I can see it clearly: a bumped head, a hurt knee, an accidental punch in the stomach, or a poke in the eye. Mothers can see it all before anything even happens. Even more amazing is their ability to predict the exact moment when their newborn is about to wake up. Seriously, they can feel it in their bones, a suddenly a restless baby arises.

I mean, this is an obviously impressive superpower, but women create life. Their bodies house and grow a human being for 40 (more or less) weeks, and their bodies adjusts to the need of that human being. Then they just go right ahead and birth that human being, only to nurture that human being all on their very own. That is a super-superpower.

Yes, I am aware that many X-Men can fight off villains and monsters, but when mothers do it, those miscreants go away for good. Plus, for mothers, fighting off the Boogie Man requires minimal effort, not an epic battle, like for some genetically mutated people.

OK, so strictly speaking this one isn't totally true, but our children think it is. To our kids, we know everything and I never admit otherwise. Mothers possess infinite knowledge and it only grows as our kids get older. To be fair, even if we don't technically know everything, we do know a whole lot and that's still a great power to have.

While many mothers claim they have very little patience, as far as humans go, mothers have a ridiculous amount of patience. Yes, it sometimes run thin, but overall just consider how much we put up with on the daily. Mothers are really astonishing superheros: they can watch their kids poop on the floor, step in that poop, and drag it though the house and still remain (mostly) calm and collected (and not give the kid away to some stranger on the street who could, maybe, at least keep a plant alive for a week). That's a superpower, my friend.

Mothers can take hot soup, and with a few blows, turn it into a completely acceptable temperature for a toddler to enjoy. My children instinctively know when they bite into a hot grilled cheese sandwich, I will be able to use my cooling superpowers and make it so it doesn't burn their mouths. I am kind of like Iceman, but cooler. (See what I did there? Puns are also a superpower moms have but children kind of hate.)

...just tell them they'll get chocolate after. I bet Wolverine can't do that.

A mother's love heals broken hearts, shattered dreams, and defeated spirits. A mother's hug wipes away the hardest day, a sleepless night, and the toughest obstacle. A mother's word can alleviate the cruelest judgement, the worst self-criticism, and the strongest guilt. A mother's greatest superpower is her ability to love, to love deeply, to love honestly, and to love unconditionally.

A mother's superpower is motherhood.