It’s Mother’s Day! Or rather Mother’s Week! Why settle for a day to honor someone who loves us for life? So do something for your mother all week and see how many ways you can honor her.
Parenting is a hard, life-long job and a lot of work when done right. You’re not always liked, but that is a part of the role parents have to play. Setting boundaries and enforcing them helps provide for your children’s health and wellbeing. Persuading children do things they don’t want to do because it’s what they need to do is hard but necessary. Providing love, counseling, hugs, and sense of security and holding them when they’re sick, hurt, disappointed, crying, and happy are crucial to being a mom. Disciplining our children is important so they know how to recover from disappointments, how to control themselves in any situation, and how to be respectful to everyone. Motherhood is teaching children to be self-sufficient, so when they reach adulthood, they can do things for themselves, work well with others, and make friends. It’s the hardest job anyone ever has but brings the greatest joys.
So I salute those mothers who:
Love their children and tell them daily how much they are loved.
Had to use cloth diapers. Swishing poopy diapers in the toilet bowl was never fun, and folding clean ones took forever some days.
Use disposable diapers. You don’t know how lucky you are.
Become taxi drivers and shuttle kids all over the place. Use the waiting time to read good books.
Dry tears and encourage their children to try again.
Have children in the cemetery and a hole in their hearts that can’t be filled.
Are foster mothers who rescue children from terrible situations.
Adopt and love other people’s children so that they have a good home to grow up in.
Are mothers to those whose own mothers are gone.
Feel like they have reached the end of their patience but keep on going.
Here’s to all mothers everywhere and all the work we do. We have the power to make the world a better place. Let’s do it.
Strength and honor are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. She opens her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looks well to the ways of her household, and eats not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her. Proverbs 32:25-28