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The Divine Role of Mothers in Life

This document discusses the importance of motherly love for child development. It states that a mother's love is necessary for the normal upbringing of a child and their emotional, mental, and physical growth. While biological mothers provide this role most often, adoptive or foster parents can establish this bond as well if they bond with the child early. A mother conveys love through touch, sounds, smiles and spending quality time with their child. Well into adulthood, children still feel special from their mother's love and support as they become independent. Though discipline is also important, it is motivated by a mother's love to set limits and ensure their child's safety and security. No mother is perfect, but it is a mother

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The Divine Role of Mothers in Life

This document discusses the importance of motherly love for child development. It states that a mother's love is necessary for the normal upbringing of a child and their emotional, mental, and physical growth. While biological mothers provide this role most often, adoptive or foster parents can establish this bond as well if they bond with the child early. A mother conveys love through touch, sounds, smiles and spending quality time with their child. Well into adulthood, children still feel special from their mother's love and support as they become independent. Though discipline is also important, it is motivated by a mother's love to set limits and ensure their child's safety and security. No mother is perfect, but it is a mother

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WHEN YOU SEE A MOTHER,

YOU SEE GOD

BY, ANITA S MEILY

“GOD could not be everywhere physically. So he created mothers”. This common saying.
Everybody loves a mother, for it is a mother who gave us life.

The word, “mother,” conjures feelings like unconditional love, security, and acceptance. Hence,
the saying, “ his is a face only a mother can love”. Mother also means peace and comfort. My soul is
tranquil like a child in its mother’s breast

A mother’s love is absolutely necessary for the normal upbringing of a child for his emotional,
mental, and physiological development. Rene Spitz, an Australian psychiatrist showed in his studies that
children reared without motherly love developed psychiatric disturbances or became problem children.

When we speak of motherly love, we are referring to the person who does the mothering and
loves the child. This is not necessarily always the biological mother. This may even be the father or the
adoptive parent.

Studies shows that if bonding between child and the adoptive mother is established early in life,
whatever close relationship may be formed later in life between the child and the biological mother will
no longer be comparable to that formed with the adoptive mother.

Motherly love must be made visible and truly felt by the child. This is manifested through sound,
touch, and smile. Make affectionate cooing sounds to the baby. Cuddle, fondle, kiss, and hug the child
often. Touch is important, during the first three years of its life. A smiling face conveys love and
acceptance. Studies suggest that if the child does not feel loved in his/her early years, it will be difficult,
if not impossible, to repair the physical and emotional damage that may result from this.

Love is not inborn. It is learned. We can only give love if we have felt and known how it is to be
loved.

As the child grows, however, love must be communicated more on the psychological attitude of
the mother, expressed in the time, attention, and interest she gives. An adolescents once told me, “ The
love of my mother spends with me makes me so special,” words and feelings should flow freely between
them.

This does not mean that the mother should not discipline a child. Discipline, it is said, is a bond
of love. Only one who loves can the discipline the child. The child will feel more secure if there are limits
set by the mother, and she sees to it these are kept.

There are no such thing as a perfect mother. I have made mistakes in my mothering years, and
still do at my age. In fact, my children relate the many booboos I made, and we laugh about them
together. As long as the mother truly loves the child and the child knows this, she need not worry that
her mistakes will damage the child for life. It is the spectrum of a mother’s constant love that matters.
The most important task of motherly loves as the child grows as to provide the loving support
and encouragement needed by the child to become his own person. Then let go. Motherly love,
however, never ends. One never ceases being a mother.

In a beautiful homily, bishop Socrates Villegas compared water with a mother. “ man cannot live
without water” he said, “ Neither can man live without a mother”. Water gives life, mothers are
instruments of life. Abuse water by destroying the rain forests and watersheds, and floods will destroy
the earth. Destroy mothers and you destroy the world. “ When you see a mother, you see GOD,”
concluded Bishop Soc. Bless All Mothers!

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