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Sacrifices of a Mother: Things You Should Thank Your Mom For

This is to honor my mother and all the mothers out there. The love you have offered are unconditional and pure that no other person can fill in. The sacrifices of a mother are incomparable because they are unsolicited. Mothers just love – and will always love their children no matter what.

A Mother’s Beginning yet Unending Journey

It started the day she conceived you but, it never ended there. In fact, it’s just the beginning of joys and pains. Yet she is determined to do what is right for you. She may have many sleepless nights yet, she wouldn’t mind because she’s too excited to see you.

Then, the labor pains struck her; soon you were born. That was the most momentous event of her life, seeing God’s miracle at its finest. She loves to see your sweet and innocent smile, it brightens up her day. She would note all your milestone and dedicate her time to teach you. She has protected you from any harm so you would grow up with all the love and care you needed. She’s tireless when it comes to you.

The Unsolicited Sacrifices of a Mother

Resources may be limited but, she would provide for almost all you need. She will double her effort and make it adequate enough for you to survive this life. She has been an inspiration, a role model to her children.

What you can give her on Mother’s day that no amount of money can buy is your appreciation, your love, and respect for her sacrifices of a mother.

For you alone is her greatest gift from God. Written in Psalm 127: 3, “Children are God’s love-gift; they are heaven’s generous reward. “ So, cherish her and most of all “Listen”, so you won’t have to regret it in the end, for she’s not there to last a lifetime.

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The Story of A Mother’s Sacrifice

The story of the two mothers in 1 Kings 3 is often told to highlight the wisdom of Solomon. But there’s another theme playing through the story…one of a mother’s sacrifice.

What it Means to Sacrifice

At its most basic level, sacrifice is giving up something you value for another person. It is “esteeming others better than yourselves” to the point that you choose their happiness or well-being over yours. 

The Story of a Mother

The story of the mother’s sacrifice in 1 Kings 3 begins with an encounter between Solomon and God. Solomon had recently ascended to the throne and when God asked what he wanted, he chose wisdom. The story of the two mothers is often used to depict the wisdom of Solomon. 

But let’s look at the story again through the eyes of the mother’s sacrifice.

Now two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. One of them said, “Pardon me, my lord. This woman and I live in the same house, and I had a baby while she was there with me. The third day after my child was born, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one in the house but the two of us.

“During the night this woman’s son died because she lay on him. So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I your servant was asleep. She put him by her breast and put her dead son by my breast. The next morning, I got up to nurse my son—and he was dead! But when I looked at him closely in the morning light, I saw that it wasn’t the son I had borne.”

The other woman said, “No! The living one is my son; the dead one is yours.”

But the first one insisted, “No! The dead one is yours; the living one is mine.” And so they argued before the king.

The king said, “This one says, ‘My son is alive and your son is dead,’ while that one says, ‘No! Your son is dead and mine is alive.’”

Then the king said, “Bring me a sword.” So they brought a sword for the king. He then gave an order: “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.”

The woman whose son was alive was deeply moved out of love for her son and said to the king, “Please, my lord, give her the living baby! Don’t kill him!”

But the other said, “Neither I nor you shall have him. Cut him in two!”

Then the king gave his ruling: “Give the living baby to the first woman. Do not kill him; she is his mother” (1 Kings 3 16-27 NIV).

I imagine that the idea of cutting a baby in two seems like a horrible verdict for the young king to pass as these two mothers stood before him. What if they had both agreed? But then, why would anyone agree to such a barbaric and cruel act?

A Mother’s Sacrifice

Yet, we see two responses in this story. One woman eagerly agreed to the king’s suggestion while the other just as quickly rejected it. 1 Kings 3:26 in the King James Version reads “the bowels of the woman yearned for her son”. I don’t know about you, but I have no idea what it means for bowels to yearn. Do bowels even know how to yearn? Let’s go back to the original language and see if we can figure it out.

The Hebrew word for bowels is racham . It could also have been translated as womb, compassion, mercy, or pity. The word translated as yearn is the Hebrew kamar . Another way of translating it could have been “grow warm and tender” or “become emotionally agitated”. I almost get the feeling that the woman’s womb twinged when she thought about the child she had labored to bring into the world being cut in two.

She couldn’t let that happen. She couldn’t let anything happen to her innocent child. She would rather live without him than have to live with the idea that he was dead. She was willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for her child: she would give him to the other woman if it meant his life would be spared.

The Greatest Sacrifice of All Times

This mother’s sacrifice reminds me of the sacrifice Jesus and our Heavenly Father made on our behalf. Long before you and I were born, God knew we would sin. He knew the consequence of sin was death–eternal death. But rather than trying to find ways for us not to sin, our Heavenly Father put a plan in place. He would send his son–his perfect son–to die in our place. We would have the chance to live and be reconciled with him.

Jesus also had a choice in his sacrifice. He didn’t have to agree to the plan to die in the place of sinful human beings who chose to disobey God’s command. But he did. He chose to make that sacrifice and to put himself in our place because he loved us. Just as that woman loved her son enough to live without him, God loves us enough to die in our place.

The Sacrifices of a Mother

As mothers, there are many things we would do for our children. I’m sure if I asked you what you would sacrifice for your child I would get a long list of the things you’ve already done and

will continue to do for your child. I want you to you right now, mother, whether you have biological children or just darlings of your heart, our Heavenly Father sees your sacrifice. He sees the things you do to safeguard the welfare of your child. He knows just how far you would go to protect your children.  

But I want to implore you, sweet mother, do not sacrifice your relationship with God for your children. I encourage you to remind them of the greatest sacrifice that was made on all our behalf. I pray that through your sacrifices you remind them of the greatest love story ever told. I pray that your mother’s sacrifice will be a tale of love and forgiveness. I pray that like the woman in 1 Kings, the story of your mother’s sacrifice will be told long after you no longer walk the earth.

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9 thoughts on “The Story of A Mother’s Sacrifice”

There is no limits of Mothers sacrifice til the last breath.

Excellent lesson. Thank you.

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Beautiful post Ami. It is encouraging and a hope-inspiring message for Mothers who struggle with feeling they do enough for their children. There is no love on earth that compares to a Mother’s love for her children or the lengths she will go to for them. Great job!

Just read this aloud to my girls. We all thoroughly enjoyed the tale of the two mothers. It’s true, a mothers sacrifice is a great thing. Almost unexplainable until you relate it to Jesus dying on the cross. Then it seems to all make all the sense! Thank you for this perfectly timed post!

I had forgotten about this story of the two mothers. So true how wise the judge was to cut right to the chase and offer up the true test of love which is sacrifice for the better of another. Thank you for this beautiful post Heather!

Exactly! There is nothing like the love a mother has for her children. However, it’s our job as children of God to put Him first. Above our children, husband or job. Loving the Lord above all else shows how to have a relationship with God too. We need to set that example for our kids.

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Motherhood Isn’t Sacrifice, It’s Selfishness

By Karen Rinaldi

• Aug. 4, 2017

I was taking a few weeks’ break from work over the summer. My family and I — my husband and my sons, then 9 and 7 — planned to spend the time at our house on the New Jersey shore. When my mother asked what we would be doing on our vacation, I told her we would be together — going to the beach and the nearby amusement park, cooking, playing in the yard.

In response, my mother said: “Oh, that’s not much of a vacation for you. I’ll bet you can’t wait to get back to work. Motherhood, it’s the hardest job in the world. All sacrifice!”

“Really?” was all I could say in response.

I was looking forward to uninterrupted time with my boys. We would spend days by the ocean and take trips to the boardwalk, where they would scream with delight while riding the roller coaster — the same one I’d ridden when I was their age, then ridden alongside them until Hurricane Sandy deposited it into the Atlantic. We’d ram one another with bumper cars; we’d ride the old-fashioned merry-go-round, waiting until my youngest son’s favorite horse, bright-blue Freddy, became available. Some days were sure to end in tears of exhaustion, but the tears didn’t outweigh the joy. Even on the bad days.

My mother was only trying to be sympathetic to my life as a working mother, but the self-satisfied way she proclaimed the sacrificial nature of motherhood grated. I don’t believe for one second that motherhood is the hardest job in the world nor that it is all sacrifice. Still, it wasn’t fair to blame her; she was merely parroting a common refrain. Once my annoyance lifted, in its place spread a kind of clarity that helped me to understand how these linguistic tropes reinforce the disempowerment of mothers and women.

The assertion of motherhood as sacrifice comes with a perceived glorification. A woman is expected to sacrifice her time, ambition and sense of self to a higher purpose, one more worthy than her own individual identity. This leaves a vacuum in the place of her value, one that others rush to fill.

When a woman becomes pregnant, she seems to become public property. Perhaps because bearing children ensures the continuation of the species, it is often prioritized as part of a larger social contract. Not only does this logic lead to an attempt to legislate women’s bodies, but also in smaller, everyday gestures, boundaries get crossed. Many friends tell stories about being touched by strangers during pregnancy, as if a woman’s maternal status turns her into a vessel to handle.

Written more than 30 years ago, Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” offers a cautionary tale of womanhood as sacrifice. In this dystopic novel, women are grouped according to the uses men determine for them: namely, sterile wives married for appearance or fertile “handmaids,” who are raped routinely for procreation. One male character declares that the woman must “learn in silence with all subjection” and that “she shall be saved by childbearing.” In this scenario, the act of motherhood is subverted for the benefit of those in power, and they get away with it because of the concept of motherhood as sacrifice.

When we cling to the idea of motherhood as sacrifice, what we really sacrifice is our sense of self, as if it is the price we pay for having children.

Motherhood is not a sacrifice, but a privilege — one that many of us choose selfishly. At its most atavistic, procreating ensures that our genes survive into the next generation. You could call this selfishness as biological imperative. On a personal level, when we bring into the world a being that is of us, someone we will protect and love and for whom we will do everything we can to help thrive and flourish, it begets the question, How is this selfless? Selflessness implies that we have no skin in the game. In motherhood, we’re all in.

By reframing motherhood as a privilege, we redirect agency back to the mother, empowering her, celebrating her autonomy instead of her sacrifice. Granted, some of us have more autonomy than others. There are many mothers who would not have chosen motherhood, for financial or personal reasons. Still, by owning our roles as mothers and refusing the false accolades of martyrdom, we do more to empower all women.

In my experience, when women talk among women, our ambivalence or frustration is rarely about our roles as mothers. (That doesn’t mean our kids don’t drive us crazy sometimes.) Rather, conversations turn to questions of how to manage the best part of our lives (those very kids who are driving us crazy) with our partners, careers and other responsibilities. And while many women derive their deepest fulfillment as mothers, it doesn’t preclude their ambition or fly in the face of leaning in or out or sideways.

Calling motherhood “the hardest job in the world” misses the point completely because having and raising children is not a “job.” No one will deny that there is exhaustion, fear and tedium. Raising a family is hard work, but so is every other meaningful aspect of our lives.

The language surrounding child rearing as a job surely derived from caregivers’ and homemakers’ efforts to be acknowledged as fulfilling an important role. And clearly raising children is one of the most important things we do — for both women and men — but that does not make it a job. In a job, an employer pays for services an employee agrees to perform. And there is a boss to whom the employee reports. In the case of parenting, who would that be?

That doesn’t mean we don’t want support — paid parental leave, more flexible working hours, publicly funded day care. But the cultural shift has to happen for the policies to follow. Martyrs, after all, don’t need or expect public services.

Fathers are rarely, if ever, spoken about in the same way that mothers are. It’s culturally acceptable for men to have children and professional identities without having to choose between the two. These unspoken biases run deep.

It reminds me of a friend whose husband complained about having to “babysit” the children while she went to dinner with friends. Has a woman ever “babysat” her own children? Things are changing, but the insidious inferences persist.

Further, with “women” and “family” as go-to cultural corollaries, studies show, terrifyingly, that these biases are being adopted by artificial intelligence, too. Calling motherhood a woman’s “job” only serves to keep a woman in her place. The priorities of mothers who work outside the home are often questioned. It’s as if women are forced to choose between ambition (or simply earning a living wage) and family.

If we start referring to motherhood as the beautiful, messy privilege that it is, and to tending to our children as the most loving yet selfish thing we do, perhaps we can change the biased language my mother used. Only when we stop talking about motherhood as sacrifice can we start talking about mothers the way that we deserve.

Karen Rinaldi is the author of the novel “ The End of Men ” and the founder and publisher of the Harper Wave imprint at HarperCollins.

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A mother’s sacrifice: tracing the literary history of maternal love

As Toni Morrison's Beloved illustrates, maternal love defies restrictions based on the intersection of race and gender, and exists beyond patriarchal rules of ownership.

By Glosswitch

What is a “ good mother ” ? One who would sacrifice all for her children. One who offers love that is endless, silent, undemanding, One who would deny her own maternal identity rather than see her offspring rent in two. A good mother is her children; she does not have a story of her own. She is the channel through which others learn to speak.

Sethe – the heroine of Toni Morrison’s Beloved – is not a “ good mother ”. She questions the very conventions of the maternal narrative. An escaped slave in the latter half of the 19th century, she inhabits a world in which “ good mothering ” is highly valued, but only for a certain type of woman: white, wealthy, outsourcing. Sethe’s role is to be passive: produce flesh, produce milk, but whatever you do, do not love. Tie up your child, work, and then watch as others take your compliance as evidence that you were never really human at all.

In his introduction to The Folio Society’s beautifully illustrated reissue of the novel, Russell Banks describes the work as “a story about family life and love, and how, in a social and economic universe designed explicitly to destroy them, they endure.” They endure, but in a haunted, distorted form, an echo of the 28 days during which Sethe can enjoy her children before they are hunted down. Twenty eight days marks the distance between an act of nurturance and one of murder; “the travel of one whole moon […] from the pure clear stream of spit that the little girl dribbled into her face to her oily blood.”

During this short space of time Sethe embraces the dominant values of idealised maternity (“it didn’t matter whether it was real or not”). She behaves in a way that would, for a white heroine, be conventional, but which is, as Andrea O’Reilly puts it , “a radical act of defiance against the prohibition on slave motherhood.”

The illusion is meant to end upon recapture, but it does not, because Sethe refuses to let her family be taken from her. Instead she attempts to kill all four of her children, succeeding with the girl she names Beloved. Sethe’s passion defies the slave owner’s – and the western plotline’s – attempts at appropriation, for better or for worse.

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Morrison has famously said of her character’s act, “ it was absolutely the right thing to do, but she had no right to do it ”. It is an act situated in the space between self-assertion and self-sacrifice, where Sethe has taken what is humane and preserved it when faced with all that is inhumane.

Overriding the traditional white feminist opposition of maternity and self-affirmation, it is a an act of rebellion (“I stopped him […] I took and put my babies where they’d be safe”) but one which people within Sethe’s own community regard as untenable (“your love is too thick”, says fellow former slave Paul D). It is seen as prideful, presumptuous, a reversal of the agonised witnessing that is all her mothering is scripted to be. 

What struck Morrison about Margaret Garner , the woman whose real-life story provided the initial (if brief) inspiration for Sethe’s, was that much as many of her supporters would have liked her to be insane, her act of infanticide appears to have been firmly rooted in maternal logic:

They kept remarking on the fact that she was not frothing at the mouth, she was not a madwoman, and she kept saying, ‘No, they’re not going to live like that. They will not live the way I have lived.’

This tenaciousness – the powerful affirmation of what is right about an act of maternal violence, within a culture that simultaneously sets ideal standards for mothering while deny black women the right to exemplify them – is echoed by Sethe: “It worked. […] It ain’t my job to know what’s worse. It’s my job to know what is and to keep them away from what I know is terrible. I did that.” Men such as Paul D and Stamp Paid, recasting this as “she was trying to out-hurt the hurter,” understand the position of injustice but not the passion that drives Sethe. And yet if, in a world in which some human beings are treated as the possessions of others, it remains true that we belong to ourselves, mothers cannot under any circumstances take the lives of their children. “She had no right to do it.” And yet.

The maternal crisis faced by women such as Sethe is not simply a fiction nor an anachronism. It remains with us to this day, in other stories, stories which are rarely told. Dominant groups control the reproductive lives – and make judgments over the right to love – of those they whom subjugate. Across the globe, poor women of colour bear the genetic offspring of wealthy white couples, while here in the UK mothers on benefits are told the only acceptable third child must be the product of rape. The options for rebellion are limited.

In Sethe’s act, I am reminded of what is perhaps not a new phenomenon, but something identified as a modern-day cultural trend: the family annihilator , the man who kills his own children and himself so that their mother – the perceived “owner” – cannot have them for herself. With his misplaced sense of grievance, rooted in the patriarchal belief that women’s physical and emotional labour amounts to little more than a calling of the reproductive shots, he appropriates  the concepts and language of reproductive justice. As black scholars such as Dorothy Roberts and Patricia Hill Collins have shown, for women of colour the historical legacy of their desire to nurture goes beyond such a crass jealousy. As Hill Collins writes , “slavery was a situation where owners controlled numerous dimensions of [African-American women’s] children’s lives”:

Black children could be sold at will, whipped, or even killed, all without any recourse by their mothers. In such a situation, getting to keep one’s children and raise them accordingly fosters empowerment.

One can debate whether or not there is empowerment in death ( Morrison : “I think if I had seen what she had seen, and knew what was in store, and I felt that there was an afterlife – or even if I felt that there wasn’t – I think I would have done the same thing”) but what is notable is that right now, in a situation of global reproductive deprivation, privileged men parody the injustice that underprivileged women experience, to the extent of feeling it so strongly they commit the acts that these women do not.

While there is a selfishness to all forms of parental self-sacrifice (what we do for “our” children may not be what we would do for the children of other communities), what Beloved articulates so carefully and magically is the double-bind of self-affirming love within the context of oppression: not the fetishised, existing-only-in-one-context love of the white angel of the home, but love as material reality, flowing in water, milk and blood.

There is a gendered and racial context in which asking “what makes a classic?” puts the white andor male critic on a level with Sweet Home’s schoolteacher, with his notebook and pencil and presumed right to classify that which is “human or animal” in others.

In 1994’s In Defence of Elitism William A Henry III was to huffily describe how, “Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Beloved came after an explicitly race-based lobbying campaign on her behalf, with a modicum of feminist pressure thrown in as well.”

That is, we are supposed to think, evidence of bias (because objectivity – in aesthetics, in science, in the evaluation of human worth – is white and male). The blank piece of paper remains a white, male space, so when Morrison writes, it is still a writing-over, a trespass, an offence by default. For white readers like me, our highest praise risks being the pathetic “but I didn’t even notice”. Yet a more careful reading can make the page alien to us, as it should, since this is neither our offspring nor our offering. 

In The Mother/Daughter Plot , Marianne Hirsch argues that with Beloved , “Toni Morrison has done more than shift the direction of her own work and of feminist theorizing: she has opened the space for maternal narrative in feminist fiction.”

Much as I am wary of any universalising impulse – we must be clear that there is no maternal narrative, only narratives – I think there is truth in this. Maternal love defies restrictions based on the intersection of race and gender, and exists beyond patriarchal rules of ownership. It exists in flesh and milk, in each maternal body, yet the conditions under which one is asked to love, or not love, vary enormously. Thus in Sethe’s case, there is a desperate need to capture the beauty existing beyond the handsaw and the accusations of pride:

She just flew. Collected every bit of life she had made, all the parts of her that were precious and fine and beautiful, and carried, pushed, dragged them through the veil, out, away, over there where no one could hurt them. Over there. Outside this place, where they would be safe.

Like a ghost child emerging from the water, it alights from the page and is visible. Just there. 

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Mother’s Sacrifice

My mom only had one eye. I hated her… she was such an embarrassment. My mom ran a small shop at a flea market. She collected little weeds and such to sell… anything for the money we needed she was such an embarrassment. There was this one day during elementary school.

I remember that it was field day, and my mom came. I was so embarrassed. How could she do this to me? I threw her a hateful look and ran out. The next day at school… “Your mom only has one eye?!” and they taunted me.

I wished that my mom would just disappear from this world so I said to my mom, “Mom, why don’t you have the other eye?! You’re only going to make me a laughingstock. Why don’t you just die?” My mom did not respond. I guess I felt a little bad, but at the same time, it felt good to think that I had said what I’d wanted to say all this time. Maybe it was because my mom hadn’t punished me, but I didn’t think that I had hurt her feelings very badly.

That night… I woke up, and went to the kitchen to get a glass of water. My mom was crying there, so quietly, as if she was afraid that she might wake me. I took a look at her, and then turned away. Because of the thing I had said to her earlier, there was something pinching at me in the corner of my heart. Even so, I hated my mother who was crying out of her one eye. So I told myself that I would grow up and become successful, because I hated my one-eyed mom and our desperate poverty.

Then I studied really hard. I left my mother and came to Seoul and studied, and got accepted in the Seoul University with all the confidence I had. Then, I got married. I bought a house of my own. Then I had kids, too. Now I’m living happily as a successful man. I like it here because it’s a place that doesn’t remind me of my mom.

This happiness was getting bigger and bigger, when someone unexpected came to see me “What?! Who’s this?!” It was my mother… Still with her one eye. It felt as if the whole sky was falling apart on me. My little girl ran away, scared of my mom’s eye.

And I asked her, “Who are you? I don’t know you!!” as if I tried to make that real. I screamed at her “How dare you come to my house and scare my daughter! Get out of here now!!” And to this, my mother quietly answered, “oh, I’m so sorry. I may have gotten the wrong address,” and she disappeared. Thank goodness… she doesn’t recognize me. I was quite relieved. I told myself that I wasn’t going to care, or think about this for the rest of my life.

Then a wave of relief came upon me… one day, a letter regarding a school reunion came to my house. I lied to my wife saying that I was going on a business trip. After the reunion, I went down to the old shack, that I used to call a house…just out of curiosity there, I found my mother fallen on the cold ground. But I did not shed a single tear. She had a piece of paper in her hand…. it was a letter to me.

My son, I think my life has been long enough now. And… I won’t visit Seoul anymore… but would it be too much to ask if I wanted you to come visit me once in a while? I miss you so much. And I was so glad when I heard you were coming for the reunion. But I decided not to go to the school…. For you… I’m sorry that I only have one eye, and I was an embarrassment for you. You see, when you were very little, you got into an accident, and lost your eye. As a mother, I couldn’t stand watching you having to grow up with only one eye… so I gave you mine… I was so proud of my son that was seeing a whole new world for me, in my place, with that eye. I was never upset at you for anything you did. The couple times that you were angry with me. I thought to myself, ‘it’s because he loves me.’ I miss the times when you were still young around me. I miss you so much. I love you. You mean the world to me.

My World Shattered.  I hated the person who only lived for me .   I cried for My Mother, I didn’t know of any way that will make up for my worst deeds…

Moral:  Never Ever hate anyone for their disabilities.  Never disrespect your parents, don’t ignore and under estimate their sacrifices.  They give us life, they raise us better than they had been, they give and keep trying to give better than they ever had.  They never wish unwell for their kids even in their wildest dreams.  They always try showing right path and being motivator.  Parents give up all for kids, forgive all mistakes made by kids.  There is no way to repay what they done for kids, all we can do is try giving what they need and it is just time, love and respect.

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September 21, 2022 at 6:58 am

1 our parents are the most innportent secure and solid. To our life

November 21, 2022 at 10:41 pm

Me at first:😀😁 Then…😐 Sees the letter:😰 Sees what the mom said:😭 Me trying not to cry:🥹

March 12, 2023 at 5:00 pm

in the biggining i wanted to punch him SO BADLY. But i’ll just break the computer. And i did punch the computer at the end. (one veiw ofthis comment =one prayer for computer)

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Essay on Mother for Students and Children

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First of all, Mother is a word which fills everyone with emotions . A Mother is certainly the most important human being in everyone’s life. Mother’s Love for her child certainly cannot be compared with anything. Her level of forgiveness is unmatchable. A Mother is capable of forgiving any wrongdoing. Mother is the most important woman in everyone’s life. A mother sacrifices her happiness for her child. No one else can care for their kids the way a Mother does.  A Mother is great and does not need anyone like me explaining that. This essay on Mother is a small attempt to discover the greatness of a mother.

Importance of a Mother

First of all, Mothers are highly responsible women. They certainly play a very important role in the upbringing of a chil d. Most noteworthy, Mothers play a huge role in determining a child’s attitude. Whether a child will be good or evil in the future depends upon the Mother. The moral values taught by Mother probably play a huge role. Individuals often remember their Mother’s values until old age. Hence, the Mother is responsible for the well-being of society. The future of society in a large way is the result of a Mother’s teaching.

Mothers share a deep connection with their children. This connection certainly cannot be matched by anyone else. Even fathers fail to establish that type of understanding. The origins of this connection happen from infancy. Most noteworthy, a Mother can understand her infant child without communication. This certainly develops a strong emotional connection between a mother and child. This bond seems to carry into adult life. A Mother, it seems like, can always tell when we are feeling hungry.

Mothers also are the emotional backbone of the family. They support everyone’s feeling in a family. Family members can certainly tell their emotions to Mothers without worry. An individual can share almost any secret with Mother. This is because Mothers have a huge level of trust with their family. Furthermore, Mothers have an extremely forgiving nature. Hence, even wrongdoing can be shared with a Mother.

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How to Support Mothers?

First of all, Mothers are precious gifts from God. Without mothers, life would certainly be dark and gloomy. Therefore, it is our duty to help and support our Mothers. One important way to do that is to help in chores. Individuals must try to do more household work. This would certainly reduce the burden of Mothers. Hence, this will also improve her health. Another way of supporting Mothers is to speak words of affirmation.

Most noteworthy, a Mother’s heart is made of gold. A few words of acknowledgment would fill her heart with happiness. There are probably several ways of doing so. One way is to praise the meal cooked by her. Above all, such acknowledgment should come on a regular basis.

A Mother is a gem in everyone’s life. She is the ultimate source of happiness for a child. Her contributions are certainly too great to imagine. Above all, her love is pure and innocent. To find a Mother who does not love is probably an impossible task.

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Euryalus’s mother always stood out among the others. She left the other mothers behind to stay with her son while most of the women decided to live in Sicily instead of traveling this arduous journey. She also was highlighted in the battle in which her son died as she ran among the soldiers to the front line to find Euryalus’s body as soon as the word reached her. Distinctions were further made between her and the others grieving over the very recognizable body of her son by the speech she gave at his side. This speech said much about the heightened importance of sacrifice and self sacrifice found in The Aeneid, versus either the Iliad or the Odyssey, through the sacrifices made for Euryalus by his mother and the other people in his life and death.

Euryalus’s mother’s entire presence in the poem, The Aeneid, seemed to be of sacrifice for her son. Over and over again, she puts his life above her own, a concept not seen in Homer’s epics. The speech she gives by his side when she sees him dead speaks of her dying as well. “Put your spears into me, Rutulians, if you can be moved,” she says to the men around her, and “dispatch this hateful soul to the abyss,” she says to Zeus, begging them to take her life (Aeneid 9.700-04). Her...

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I love being a Mom. I wouldn’t say that I’m perfect at it, but I’m definitely learning something new every day with my first son. You start to learn that you are stronger then before and you learn the sacrifices your mom been through to take care of you. Now here I am making those same sacrifices. As a mother you learn what love feels like at first sight once the doctor put your baby on your chest for the first time after waiting nine months. The first day my son was born I knew that there was no more time for myself. My son is my first priority.

The life of being a mother is not an easy job but it sure is a sacrifice. If I wasn’t a mom I wouldn’t know how I feel to be one, but since I am one I wouldn’t change the feeling. I like the feeling of being a mother because now I wouldn’t know what I would do without my son. I love everything about him because he showed me a different life style and that is to cherish one another. As I choice to make everyday a life of happiness and a learning environment, I still struggle on some day to finish up some duty that I forgot to do during the day. Sometimes when I forget something, I feel as I didn’t accomplish my goals for the day.

As a women your body change dramatically and that’s one other sacrifice you’re making as well. During the nine of pregnancy you don’t know what is going to happen, which it’s stressful! During the first trimester you’re dealing with lots of morning sickness and always feeling hungry! As you get closer to your second trimester your morning sickness start to easy down but you still want to eat more and your less stress then your first trimester. During the last trimester you just can’t wait to have your baby in your arm because at this point you can’t do anything at all because you feel like you’re going to fall.

They are so many different sacrifices as a mother which makes us so much stronger than others. As a mother you have to take care of yourself, your children, house work and work. Some of this stuff can cause stress on a women because there’s so much on us but at the end of the day we manage to balance everything. As a mother you try to make your day easy by making a plan and trying to stay in track. It’s a choice we make every day to make sure everything is going well. Especially putting a smile on our children faces and make sure they are always happy!

I won’t know how life would be without having a child since I’m so used to being a mom and always putting my child first. I am blessed to be called a mother. I am blessed to have a child that I can live long and remember so many memories. My child has taught me so many things in life that I thought I couldn’t do and one of them is being a mother. I thank the lord for blessing me in so many ways because being a mother gave me more strength, time and love.

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We all love our mothers, don’t we? She may be a little strict but she still is the best of all. Mothers love us the most and would sacrifice everything for our happiness and well-being. However, we forget to recognize and appreciate her love and sacrifices for us and take everything for granted. The same happened with David. He never loved his mother and was ashamed of her but when he learned the truth about her, all he could do was regret it. Let’s read a story on mother and learn from David’s mistakes. 

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David was a school-going kid whose mother had just one eye. He disliked his mother for having just a single eye. He always felt embarrassed of her and did not insist on her visiting his school to pick him up. David’s mother ran a small plant shop at a flea market. She worked hard and sold whatever she could to earn enough money to make ends meet. David hated their living conditions and wished to be rich when he grew up.

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When David’s mother arrived at school and called out to him, he was furious to see her. David’s friends laughed at him and said, “Is that one-eyed monster your mother? She looks funny.”. David ran away in tears. When they reached home, David yelled at his mother, “Why did you come to school? You’re such an embarrassment! I never wanted you to come to school and that’s why I didn’t invite you. Look how everyone laughed at me. You are the worst mother ever.”. 

David’s mother said nothing. She went to the kitchen to start preparations for dinner and sobbed quietly. David had come to the kitchen for a glass of water and saw her mother sobbing but did not console her. Although he felt a little bad for misbehaving with her, he was determined to study hard and leave her behind for a better future. 

Years passed and David indeed grew up to be a good student and a rich man who earned handsomely. He left the city and his mother behind and built a big house in a different city. He now had a family of his own whom he loved immensely. He broke all ties with his mother and never contacted her. Even his wife and children didn’t know about his mother. Once when his mother had come to visit him, David pretended to not know her and drove her away treating her like a beggar. She walked away with a smile and no words, again. 

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David was heartbroken to find out that his mother had donated her other eye to David when he lost it in an accident during his childhood. She had journaled her dreams and aspirations for David in that diary and all those times when David misbehaved with her. Each time she wrote, “I forgive you, my son, I know you love me and I love you a lot.” Her last words were, “David, I wanted to see you as a rich and successful man living with a happy family before I die. The doctor said my days were numbered. I wasn’t sure if you would come down with your family at the reunion and even if you did, whether you would bring them to our house. For one last time, I forgive you, my son.”. David cried uncontrollably; he hated himself for being so cruel to his mother. But, it was too late. 

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1. How did David’s mother treat him?

David’s mother was a very loving parent. She always cared for and loved David. Despite the fact that David could not stand her because she had just one eye and felt embarrassed, she never scolded David or mistreated him. She worked hard to provide him with a good life and wished well for him as she mentioned in her letter that she always forgave him and wanted to see him happy and successful. 

2. What truth did David discover in his mother’s diary?

When David visited his mother’s house and read her diary, he realized that his mother had written down her dreams and all that she aspired for David. He found out that it was he who had lost an eye during an accident in childhood and that his mother donated her eye to David. This made David regret his actions and the harsh words that he had said to his mother. 

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MOTHER IS A SYMBOL OF SACRIFICE A mother is a woman who has conceived‚ given birth to‚ or raised a child in the role of a parent Amongst the clearest examples of Islam’s honoring women is the great status of the mother in Islam. Islam commands kindness‚ respect and obedience to parents and specifically emphasizes and gives preference to the mother as shall be shown in this article. Islam raises parents to a status greater than that found in any other religion or ideology.: Someone went to

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about a family of 5. Mom‚ dad‚ and three daughters. They seem to have a good relationship overall‚ but we get a sense that something is unusual about their relationship. First of all‚ they have family meetings‚ where they have discussions about what parent is going to be with what child. Dawn‚ the narrator‚ says that these family meetings never really work‚ because the kids can never decide what‚ or with whom they want to be around. Another thing that hints to the reader that this family has

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Family and Mother

Do You Think the Boy’s Mother Made the Proper Choice in Dealing with Her Son? In Richard Wright’s "Hunger"‚ a mother is forced with a difficult decision. Should she "baby" her child and prevent him from fighting‚ or should she encourage him to fight and "stand up like a man"? Unfortunately‚ the mother’s decision is a clear one. The mother tells the boy to stand up for himself and fight back. The story "Hunger" is a story with a very clear message. The message of this story is that a person

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English 1010 Ms. Flewellyn Essay 2 Compare/Contrast Single Parents vs Both Parents As a single parent of a teenage daughter with an absent father‚ I can relate to the many problems facing most single parents today. The bonds my daughter and I have formed are stronger than I could have ever prayed for‚ however I often ponder the pros and cons of a two parent family . Whether the burdens and joys of parenting lie on a single parent or a two parent family ‚ the bond of parent and child

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multimillionaire. I save my admiration for a special woman‚ my mother . Who as I grew older has taught me many things in life‚ those in which have helped me in many situations till this day. My mother has showed me more than I could see in the world. She’s the reason why I keep going despite all the challenges. Because of her I am who I am today. I can certainly sit here and write you a whole book about the many qualities I admire about her. Above all my mother holds the qualities necessary for her to be someone

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Mothers as Family Managers

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"Planning and Design of Rural Drinking Water Pr0.jects ‚ ’ Experiences in Rural Development‚ occasional paper I No. 2‚ Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Centre‚ Paris‚ 1977. Isely‚ R.E.‚ "Targeting Sanitation Programs Where It Counts: Mothers af Small Children‚" proceedings of the Congress of the World Federation of Public Health Associations‚ Calcutta‚ 1981. Assignment C h i l d r e n ‚ UNICEF East Asia a n d P a k i s t a n R e g i o n a l O f f i c e ‚ "Toward a P r o grammer ’s Guide:

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time when my mother to waked my brother and me up prepares us for school. There‚ we head to our kitchen where our mother is cooking us hot breakfast. Then here came my father who grabbed a piece of Chinese pancake‚ kissed my mother ‚ and head off to work. We kissed our mother and trotted off to our school bus‚ heading to our school. When the school was done for the day‚ my brother and I were so excited to come home‚ seeing our dinner waiting that prepared by our mother . My mother would normally

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The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia Essay

to halt the ships from sailing‚ so the ships could not sail to participate and defend their empire in the Trojan war . The only way to get the winds back they had to sacrifice Iphigenia to Artemis. The father lied to his wife and Iphigenia that they were going to get Iphigenia and a god married‚ but they were actually going to sacrifice Iphigenia in a roofed structure. Once Iphigenia became known about the conflict she willingly sacrificed herself ("Iphigenia." Iphigenia. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 24 Jan. 2017

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The Prestige - Essay on Sacrifice

Sacrifice The two main characters of The Prestige‚ Robert Angier and Alfred Borden‚ have a history that goes back to when they were just audience shills. An intense rivalry sparked between them after Angier suspected Borden of being responsible for the accidental death of his wife‚ Julia‚ during a live show. Though the two men stopped working together‚ they began competing for the title of “the greatest magician.” Throughout the movie‚ we see their obsession over beating each other’s magical performances

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Essay on Aztec Sacrifice

Yalcin Mizrak 11-18-12 LAS 2012 Essays #1 Category A #2 – The Aztec people practiced the ritual of sacrifice to their Gods. It was part of their everyday religion‚ and they firmly believed that it was absolutely necessary. Many different animals were sacrificed along with humans‚ but the human sacrifice seemed to be the staple of their society. The Aztecs believed‚ in the ancient times before man‚ the gods would take turns being the sun for the people‚ until eventually they realized they had

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