The modern format of discussions and the speech acts implemented in them are most widely developed in network communication, which makes it relevant to analyze the phenomena specific to it even before they appear in ordinary communication. This article examines the question of what kind of argumentation schemes accompany statements that have received the name “I’m just a mother”. The material of the research was the cases of network deliberation using such statements. At first glance, there is a special case of the scheme of the argument "ad hominem" (in the interpretation of D. Walton), but a more attentive study allows us to see in the case of “I’m just a mother” and other schemes, in particular, “expert opinion”.