I am a Mother

nice

great

I must forward it to my husband, who thinks that i am just rolling around all day long and do nothing. You manage to put it together just perfect!

My mom is the best!

TFS

Shalla - Your Husband is absolutely correct. Otherwise how you spend all your time in QL and Internet :)

Can we not say the same about Fatherhood ?

No brit not at all, Mother is mother, Father cannot replace as Mother....

no brit i dont think this applies to fatherhood...

Never ever Mimi, a Father cannot replace Mother... I dont know in which world you are living....

Let me write down that to make a short form for your profession.

RFCDNIPR!
Wow what a great abbreviation!!!

"I was feeling good about having described my occupation so calmly and confidently. So I replied "My research projects have been going on for a number of years (Fathers never retire!!). My research is conducted in the laboratory as well as in the field. I have two bosses. (One is God and the other is my entire family). I have received two honours in this field. (A son and a daughter) My topic is considered to be the most difficult part of sociology.(All Fathers will agree!!). "

So, it can apply equally to mothers or fathers..

maybe it apply to you brit, but doesnt to many fathers whom i know, not even to my own father not forgetting the fact that all financial aid was from his side, but mother contributed more she understands me more than anyone.

God has created both with assigned duties...mom n dad, both plays a vital role in bringing up the child.....its not like mom replaces dad o something....so we can say both...motherhood n fatherhood :)

My mother was good for emotional support when I was younger. Kisses for scraped knees and all that. But when I was older and needed emotional support and advise, my father was always the one I went to. He always gave me no nonsense advise, even about boyfriends, and never got angry or upset. Whereas my mother would.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, children need a village.

LOL. Bit of both drsam.

Children need the outdoors, but I do think that cities can offer a lot of the same things as villages.

What I was referring to is that they need more than just a mother and father. They need mothers, fathers, grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins, friends, etc.

u mean back to basic.

Todays children are used to modern life style with all hi-tech amenities, they could not survive in villages.

In fact, even villages are NO more exist (from India perspective). Due to deforestation/urbanisation makes animals life miserable and they find difficult to get shelter or refuge in urban areas.

What I don't understand is when Women say that they are a working Mother, like Miss Mimi. Is there any better job that just being a mother, rather having to do another job all because you think you not good enough to take care of your own kids?

Yes I know I just opened the flood gates..:)

building Next Generation to hold the FORT strongly and future leaders

Alas, the scenario is bad;
the ultimate responsibility burdened with Single Parent.

Changes in the social trends and its bad consequences should be taken as a moral lesson.

High time to go to basics again to fulfil the responsibilities assigned.

Mother's have always worked. The very idea of a "stay at home mother" is a relatively new (past hundred years or so) idea. In the original hunter-gatherer tribes, women would have had to spend the day gathering food. While the child was small and breastfeeding they would have taken the infant with them, but once weaned (normally around 6 months of age) they would have been left with older children and the elderly. Ditto when we turned into an agricultural based society. Every able bodied adult would have been needed to work the fields and take care of the livestock from dawn till dusk.

Even amongst the wealthy women didn't take care of their own children, they would have been left with wet nurses and the women would have gone to court, or traveled with their husbands, etc. It would not be uncommon to only see your children a couple of times a year.

Really, it was only with industrialization, that men could earn enough money to feed the family without the help of the wife (and really that only applied to the newly created Middle Class) poor women still would have had to work and wealthy women still would have relied on nannies.

So really, just being a mother and devoting a 100% of our time to raising a child, is not the natural thing.

Yes Victory they do, but providing that is not the soul job of the mother. They need it from their fathers, siblings, aunts and uncles, mentors as well.

It really does take a village to raise a child.

It's going to be my first Mother's Day!!!! (does little dance :D)

My child doesn't know it's Mother's Day. He barely knows what his feet are (but boy do they taste good!). But my husband knows. :D

Mimi.......Mother have to take lead in inspiring a child and all others follows. It is possible in our home country but not possible in Qatar for expatriates like us. Children also have to sacrifice certain things similar to their parents.