IT'S MOTHER'S DAY!!!

30|03|2014

Mothers are not just females, they are life givers. The demanding roles and responsibilities placed on mothers, especially the working mothers have made me a better individual and appreciative of my own beloved mother. Biologically, we have been given the hallowed privilege to bear children.  Having nurtured the developing child in our own bodies, there is always that compelling drive to protect our children. We feel inherent motivation to comfort and provide guidance to our children making mothers natural primary care givers especially during the early years of a child’s life. Even as a grown woman that is physically less dependent on her mum, I still find myself seeking advice from time to time, while ensuring there is always an understanding between us as she carries on accepting me and loving me, making the nurturing role of mums endless. Apart from seeing to the nurturing of their children, some mothers are bread winners of the family too. A mum’s experience with her child (ren) powerfully shapes the children’s perspectives, attitudes, and sense of awareness/confidence, making mothers the most integral parts of their children’s development.   Mothering in my opinion is one of the most complex and demanding works because you are naturally committed to learning child’s stages of development, ensuring they are fed with nutritionally balanced meals while helping them learn academically. From my observation, a mum’s approach to parenting is completely different from a father’s. while a father tends to be more physical example, tickling, playing games like football, mothers are more emotionally involved, example, a mother tends to talk  with her child more and foster social skills. With so many responsibilities associated with mothering, motherhood remains a submissive role with very few rewards.

In our society today, there are too many single mothers. It’s not by choice for so many of them to be by themselves, but circumstances may have led to that, yet they manage through the struggles associated with  single parenting to bring up beautiful, strong, confident, responsible, successful  and independent individuals. Typical examples of successful people raised by their mums are former president of United States of America, Bill Clinton whose dad died 3 months before he was born in August 19 1946, US current president Barack Obama and our beautiful Alicia Keys! This goes to show how a mother figure in the life of a child can greatly affect a child’s success journey.

What is your relationship with your mother? How do you treat the mother of your kids? How do you treat other people’s mother? Some people abuse their mums, others are in enmity with theirs, and some others are not even proud to identify with theirs.   In another area of concern, some men beat the mother of their kids, abuse them and even disrespect them, which sometimes makes me wonder if these people do know the meaning of mother. I understand that some mothers may not have fulfilled or are not fulfilling their responsibilities which may be as a result of various reasons personal, societal and any other circumstances any one can think of, however, there is still need for you to love, cherish, respect and honour your own mum or any other mother figure around you, even if it’s for the only reason of giving birth to a life.

Why not take advantage of mother’s day and re-establish your relationship with that person who plays a mother role in your life and start making up for years and time lost!

God bless all mothers! Happy Mother's Day!!