It's a choice of being at your service
It's not a rarity but an obvious truth that making a choice can be a person's decision, although its outcome remains uncertain. Nothing is more important and enjoyable in life than having freedom of expression. The word 'expression' weighs a lot because it expresses a person's wishes regarding life's various decision-making stages. It applies to education, styling, career, profession, marriage, family planning, managing relationships and whatnot. The impact of making a choice can be beneficial or harmful. Facing dilemmas in choosing a course, career, spouse, and parenting is natural. Among all, 'parenting' is a very emotional context, especially for mothers. Considering the present-age moms, many are educated, strong, intelligent and ambitious, but are they all working or hands-on mothers? Several working mothers try hard to balance their professional and familial duties, specifically responsibilities towards their offspring. Some can meet the challenges successfully, while some get drained out. Even some mothers willingly choose to be hands-on mammas despite having academic qualifications and professional skill sets. Is it wrong to become a full-time mother? The present society usually hails those nurturing mothers who are earning members too, but why are the full-time mothers a little looked down on? What's wrong with such a choice?It's a choice of a good number of mothers. They have chosen such a life to be around their little kids, who usually expect their mothers to be around them. It is natural to depend upon mothers during a child's growing-up years; it's also the very age when children are bound to fall sick, show disinterest in eating and very much prone to pick up bad habits and learn to misbehave; proper care and behavioural guidance help the little one to prepare for a bright prospect and become a proper human being, which is possible only when a loving mother is around to notice and guide the child as required. During the formative years, a child needs proper monitoring in building up the proper habits relating to eating, sleeping and behaviour, or else life will get spoiled. It's a sad picture of a family, and even many grown-up children fail to recognise their mother's contribution. They also look down on their mothers only because they serve within the four walls of their home. Alas! Financial independence is the criterion for success, while mothers who suppress their desire and independence to look after the child and the rest of the family receive no respect, which is hurtful. Many families can afford to keep a caretaker or a nurse to look after the child, but many ladies believe that being with the child throughout their growing-up days gives a strong foundation for the future. Earning mothers get more respect than non-earning mothers in many families, which is demeaning. Those who demean a hands-on mother have no idea about the sacrifice a mother makes through her choice of being a non-earning and selfless mother.
Making a choice is always very difficult. It becomes truly tough for a personality like a mother, an epitome of love and sacrifice, to give up her individuality and career for the sake of her motherhood by giving priority to her child's care and upbringing. Although some disregard the mothers' sacrifice, it remains the choice of all time.
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