The Love of a Mother

Immeasurable and Long Lasting.

I have been long in the education field to see how anxiety can overwhelm a mother and the efforts taken to provide the needs of her brood. Much is done to cater to the many demands of a child; getting them into a suitable learning environment then to ensure the best influence be upon them.
When the offspring face learning challenges, desperation crops in in search of best practices and solutions. The best is subjective and patience is the antidote.
Actually, a temporal displacement is not the end for the journey is long and arduous in the walk of a child on this earth. Learning development also differs among individuals and much wisdom is desired to see a situation objectively.

When I was a young mother, I was not spared of the above. Education and school was the only thing that truly mattered and I went through great length to make sure the best possible be upon my children. Occasionally, I let go when some of them refuse to compete grade 8 on the piano and chucked the learning of Mandarin. I was too tired to fulfill my ambition into their learning and maybe that was good for did it matter in the end? On the hind side, I can safely say it does not. Perhaps the best that I can say is water will always find its own level and we need to know how to withdraw when the going gets tough. Maybe we should allow the innate and natural take its course and the child somehow will find the appropriate level.

Can I add that it is the appropriation of time on learning right attitudes in life that matter the most? Even at a tender age, children lie and strategize to cover their lies to escape the rod in the home and the school. It is spending time correcting and getting them back on track each time that counts. Again and again the reminder must be administered for when the right attitude happens, the child is safe. You do not have to be an ace student to achieve the last word. Attitude and appropriate behaviour can change circumstances. Your bosses look for them when they want to employ you. Many times it is the mediocre child with positive attitudes that enjoy the trust and love of all around them. So, my outlook of things has surely differed or is it because age has seriously a say in this?

Well, the same goes to many more happenings in later life; jobs, life partners, grandchildren and the like. Do not be anxious; the Good Book again and again remind us but in everything commit them to the Lord. Yes, learning to take it by the day and see the natural transpire. But, in the going ins and outs I truly enjoy and agree with a song called the Sabbath Prayer from the movie Fiddler on The Roof and I believe the powerful prayer uttered by the parents still stay good till this very day. That I surely willingly concur.

Hear the song :

Yes, it is good to commit my children into God's hands each day that indeed I shall not be anxious but trust in this prayer for them.

Happy Mother's Day