About Motherhood
When we think of a mother, what kind of a picture we get in our
mind? A compassionate lady who will sacrifice all her comforts
and will work ceaselessly in the home without expecting any
monetary reward, only to take care of her children. Is this
correct? Motherhood means sacrifice and pain from day one of
conception. But this pain and sacrifice brings forward a
beautiful feeling in a woman after she finds that her children
are happy and healthy. That is the only reward she desires from
her children. And that is motherhood.
This is true not only for humans but all mothers of the animal
kingdom. A tigress will attack you and kill you if you dare to
approach her cubs. Every animal mother teaches her young ones
the art of living in their world. Every mother is ready to go to
any length to save her young ones. A woman begins dreaming about
her child soon after conception. Many expectant mothers talk to
the yet to be born child. They feel totally comfortable doing
that. They plan for the future of the kid, food, education,
clothing, shelter everything. From the poorest to the richest
mothers, we find that a sense of protecting her progeny is the
most common trait.
For a mother, the child is her extension. This is not so for the
fathers. But mothers treat the child as same as themselves. Why?
Nature gives this love to a mother so that the specie continues.
Mothers are special. In few studies it has been found that
infants stop crying when they listen to the recorded sounds of
their mothers womb. They were protected there and when they come
out in the world, they are surprised with the difference. The
sounds of womb tell them that things have still not changed so
much and they feel comforted. That is one of the reasons why
touch works wonders. The more a mother touches her children
physically, the more loved they feel. They get the reassurance
of the protection of the mother.
A child should always feel indebted to his/her mother because
nobody else including the father sacrifices so much as the
mother to bring us up. Mother is compassion and for a young kid,
mother is God.