Words for Moms

Any day now, I should be promoted to the title “grandma”.  Every time I get a call now, I am waiting to here “mom, I am in labor now”.  I always believed that being a mom was the most important thing that I could ever do, and I do believe my daughter believes the same.

So many times we are asked “what do you do” and the response is often “just a mom”.  I work a bit  some through my computer and some outside of the home. For me it all works around, my most important role and that is being a mom. My kids are older now, I have more freedom to do other things, and even though most of them are taller than I am, they still need me. Even my daughter who is about to enter the world of motherhood herself, still needs me to be there now as a friend and counselor (and probably the occasional babysitter).

I think we have a lot of floundering people  in their world because moms have  forgotten how important it is to be “just a mom”. Many try to fit their children around careers and busy schedules.  Child need a quantity of quality time. We don’t necessarily have to be actively teaching them every second, we just have to be there and be there with our brains, not focused on something else.

What do moms do? Moms provide emotional soil for children to set down deep roots. If children have strong roots with faith in God and emotional security from the time they are babies, they are set to grow. Moms provide the care and nurturing of the child as the they group. Moms make sure that children have their physical needs met by feeding them and making sure that they have cloths to wear.  Moms also prune and shape children through discipline and training. Moms also let go and help their children enter the world step by step, so that they can be fruitful citizens of the world themselves.

3 Responses to “The Importance of Being a Mom”