Motherhood Is About Guiding And Nurturing
If you are a mother, you are already aware that motherhood is much more than just giving birth. One of our many responsibilities as mothers is guiding and educating our children.
After all, it is through us that our little ones normally learn their first words and how to put them together. That is why our first language is called our mother tongue.
Mothers generally spend more time with children than fathers and are usually their first teachers and figures of authority.
What does it mean to be a mother?
Being a mother is not something that requires qualifications or experience. Let’s be realistic: kids don’t come with a manual.
No one is really prepared for motherhood. Does this mean you should be afraid of the idea of being a mother? Of course not.
The experiences of every woman, of every mother, are personal and incomparable. But with or without a partner, biological or adoptive, a mother is still a mother.
Being a mother means more than just giving birth to a child. It also means sleepless nights and endless worries. Running after your kids for hours. Guiding and educating your child.
Spending days, months and years inventing new ways to camouflage vegetables. It means enduring every quarrel and taking all the infinite misfortunes that life throws at you with the patience of a saint.
Guiding and educating our children is one of the most difficult tasks faced by mothers. And while there are no magical solutions, there are some important pieces of advice to keep in mind. After all, it’s never too early to set an example for your child.
Guiding and educating your children
Here are a few helpful tips:
- You must take care of yourself first in order to take care of your child. If you are in a bad mood yourself, it affects your mood and can affect the well-being of your baby.
- Learn to manage your stress. Understand that you can’t do everything perfectly.
- Well-intentioned or not, don’t let other people tell you how to live your life or raise your child.
- Learn to organize yourself to make the best use of the limited time available.
- Children should feel safe no matter the circumstances. They need to know that despite life’s challenges, their mother will always be there for them. Trust between a mother and her children is therefore crucial. Having faith in them will teach them to have productive and positive relationships with you and others around them.
- Be a good example as a mother, wife and friend to your child.
- Teach them principles and moral values from the start.
- Set rules at home and expect your children to follow them.
- On the practical side, try to get a life insurance policy that lists your child as the beneficiary. Choose a person you trust as their legal guardian in case something happens to you. Put everything on paper, preferably in the presence of a notary or lawyer, to make sure that no one can abuse your child.
- Above all, be patient.
A mother is an example
Children learn from our example, so it is essential to practice what you preach and behave as you expect them to. Mothers play a vital role in the lives of our children.
The most important thing mothers can do is love our children unconditionally. However, it is not enough to feel this alone. We must also express it with words, with deeds, and with physical expressions of affection.
A kiss, a hug, and an “I love you” are the much-needed resources to raise safe and compassionate people, which will one day make them good mothers or fathers themselves.
Finally, understand that if you are a mother and succeed in the essential task of guiding and educating your child, you need the strength of character, authority, courage and responsibility.
See obstacles not as problems, but as challenges to be overcome. Guiding and educating is a task for every mother.