Mind over Mop?

I believe that being a homemaker isn’t a mindless job and isn’t for the faint of heart. A mother’s role is to be a little bit of everything and that’s why it tends to be so difficult.

However I do believe that education has it’s time and place. My when my Dad got married to my Step-Mom that made her an automatic parent of a 9, 7, and 4 year old. Since she never received her degree she decided to enroll in the Pathway program majoring in Family studies. Since then she has come down and apologized to me in tears for being a horrible mother. I’m not criticizing how she has done anything, I love her and I think she’s done a marvelous job jumping into a family already in progress, that must have been even slightly terrifying.

But if she had completed her degree earlier, she wouldn’t have had to worry about the study of proper parenting or any of this guilt that she feels. She’s encouraged me to finish my degree now and not to follow that example.

That’s not to say that once you get your degree that you don’t have to learn anything and everything that you’ve learned is null and void. That’s why the church encourages us to get an education because knowledge is invaluable. When we die, what we’ve learned and our memories are what stay with us. And on earth if a circumstance arises and the father is no longer able to provide for whatever reason, the mother will have an education to fall back on to support the family.

Not only that but in my opinion, no other job or role requires so much knowledge as a mother. They teach the child to speak, to have manners, to do the normal everyday things we have been doing for years, to speak and ask questions, reading, eating maybe cooking, to clean up after themselves, love and respect for others, honesty, etc. Everything that a child is very foundational that what they do means the world to everyone.

Mothers are underappreciated. It’s a very tough job. I respect anyone willing to take it on, especially in this work dedicated society that seeks immediate results while a mother won’t really see the results of her labors for years.