One of the hardest jobs (more like careers) out there is being a full-time parent. It takes hard work, a lot of sacrifice, patience, and undeniable, unconditional, everlasting love. For mothers, however, it’s a little different. From conception to birth, they are the main caregiver; the one to ensure that you will come into the world healthy; the one that houses you in a warm state of living, the one that protects you from the world’s dangers until you’re old enough to understand and venture out into the wild by yourself, and even WHEN you do that, she’ll still worry, she’ll still care, and she’ll still be watching over you, no matter where you are.

People’s relationships with their mothers vary: you could be the best of friends or the worst enemies. Some people don’t even have a mother, so they use that as fuel to give their own children the memories and times that they couldn’t have had with their own. They are people who don’t know their mothers through unfortunate circumstances, but there’s always that emotional attachment to them. Mothers just want to do their best to provide for their own. They can get naggy, and it will be annoying, but as my friend Shay said a blog post a while back, Mother’s Know Best; and there’s absolute truth to that.

I’m blessed to have a mother right now who has been with me my entire life. My mother has shown me so many different things the help me grow as a person, and she’s still giving me life lessons to take with me until I’m ready to become a parent, or even to just help me develop as a person. She had strict rules while I was growing up, and always taught me that you can’t always get what you want, so you have to work for it. That constant drilling into my head that I had to work for things shifted my attitude from being lazy, to actually doing something with my life, and I thank her for that, and I’ll forever be grateful. The relationship we have is a great one, because we’re always on the same page on things (although we root for rival football teams), and we just have a bond that’s pretty much inseparable.

New mothers, understand that the child that you have (or having), is going to be a person in the world that can do something special, given how you raise them, how you treat them with love, and the relationship you have with them. How you do all of that, that’s in your control, but it’s pretty important to distinguish a passion for your life around you, and that includes your children. A Mother-child relationship is one of the most important ones there are, because there are a lot of factors that drive them to either being a success or a failure. Do right by your children, and they’ll do right by you. You give, they give back times 10, because you’ve been putting in so much work to give them life already, so continue being that caregiver, that provider, and that lover that will not only impact them, but to you as well. Happy Mothers Day.

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