“Whatever I am and will ever be, I owe to my angel mother”
Abraham Lincoln, the great American president, said of his stepmother. This lady took care of him after his birth mother died. He would recall when this lady would look for him in the cowshed with a piece of charcoal in her hand, which she used to teach him to write. So began the education of a great man, whose inaugural speech as president is still highly revered and is quoted in different languages.
All great men are born of a woman, a mother indeed. She is an angel as described by poets and composers. The unforgettable lines in poetry are women and so are the undying lyrics and melodies composed about them. The most touching lines ever said of a woman by another woman are those uttered by Ruth to Naomi in the Bible.
“Forbade me not from following thee, thy people shall be my people, your God, my God, and where Thou diest, there I be buried.”
GLOBALIZATION IS PLAYING HAVOC WITH MOTHERHOOD
We must learn English, in the process, we forget so many of the tender and musical words we use to address our mothers. Here in the Philippines, we not often heard or say the mother term “INAY, NANAY, NANANG, OR INA.” We have replaced them with foreign words. The warmth and tenderness are quite gone. Some kids even address their mothers by name.
The greatest tragedy that happens to motherhood now is when they have to leave their kids to go abroad or other places to earn money. Right now, thousands of kids in our country are motherless.
Many of our professional ladies now enter society as “single mothers” and are enjoying it. They arrange with men to supply the semen. In other countries, the semen of geniuses are frozen then sold or given to women called foster mothers. Other rich women like some famous artists go to Africa to adopt children to fulfill a hunger for motherhood.
Let us not look down on the single mother. Let us render her the same reverence and respect we give to the married mothers. She is a sacred channel of life and she is carrying a creation of God, which no moral law can interfere with. If we all contribute to this thinking, no abortion should happen.
Motherhood is so natural; no woman is truly one unless she undergoes the process. This causes a woman to look for methods to bear children. Yet some countries have thousands of mothers whose husbands leave them with their children in for jobs abroad. Most of these mothers are destitute and are seeking help from the government to locate the fathers of their children even only for financial support. The government must really do something for mothers who are apparently forsaken by their partners who went away to work. Some of them have new families and may forget the ones they left behind.
So we now say that globalization, which encourages people to seek jobs abroad, is detrimental to motherhood and the children.
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That is true. Since the world is getting so materialistic, mothers would also want to join the bandwagon of working abroad, so she can provide a better future and a better life to her growing children , and that is if the partner is unluckily not employed or has abandoned her to take care of all the children.
Though, given the chance, a mother should be with her children, guiding and taking care of them until the childrean reaches the age where they can already take care of themselves.
About how children calls their mothers, I think I really like it that we raised our daughter calling us Mama or Papa, not Mommy or Daddy. Why, because Daddy and Mommy are actually English words , thus we seem unpatriotic . Besides, for me, it seems those words have a tinge of hypocrisy since they usually are being used by kids born to rich family.
Thus, I chuckle inside of me when a poor kid calls her parents Dad or Mom. he he he
With Mama anD Papa, they have humble tones.
As example of humble rich people are KrisAquino and Carmina Villaroel . Kris lets her kids call her Mama while Carmina let her kids call them Nanay and Tatay.
Such humility so outstanding !
n those early years, I remember one particularly chaotic afternoon while I was home by myself with all four kids. One child spilled red paint on the carpet, another had an accident on the hard-wood floor, another threw up in her crib, and another had a diaper explosion while (of course) no wipes could be found anywhere in the house. All of this happened in the space of thirty minutes, and I felt like my life was spinning completely out of control. There were many times during those years when I wondered if I’d ever feel on top of my game again.
Though my kids have finally gotten past the diaper blowout stage, now that I have six children ranging from two to nine years old, there are still plenty of moments where life feels far more chaotic than peaceful. I know what it feels like to have a houseful of little voices chattering, shouting, and vying for my attention like a mob of wild monkeys. I am familiar with the endless piles of laundry, the constant discipline challenges, the never-ending frustration of lost socks and sippy cups, and the sleep deprivation that comes with having a household full of young children.
Being called a mother of someone and by someone is a greatest blessing of womanhood. The feeling a woman gets when her kid calls mumma for the first time cannot be explained by words. It is a lovely and out of this world kind of feeling.
Here in India mothers are usually addressed as 'MA' or 'MUMMY' in hindi.
It is a lovely feeling and a bliss of life to be called so.