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It's a privilege to be a mother. Motherhood is the greatest blessing any woman can be blessed with. Motherhood is a symbol of love, kindness and forgiveness. A mother's touch is the first human touch in a child's life. A mother's heart is filled with a never-exhausting love for her children. She lives and dies for them.

A mother is the most beautiful woman in the child's eyes. It is a mother's love, pure and unadulterated, which nourishes a child and helps him to see and understand the cruel and the harsh world where he is destined to spend the rest of his life. Only a mother knows how it feels to be a mother.

Mothers shoulder a huge responsibility of instilling the good and the bad in her child's heart. Being a mother is tough. A mother's every action and word is under the deepest scrutiny and therefore she is always over cautious of her conduct. Whether you are a single mother or an ideal mother trying to be a role model for your child, you can benefit from the parenting tips given in the subsequent sections. Here we unleash the secrets of being an ideal mom.

* Single Mother
* Be an Ideal Mother
* Motherhood Myth
* Working Mothers


Single Mother

The trend of single mother by choice is growing. The growing number is attributed to the fact that the number of successful professional women working in large cities is growing at an alarming rate. These women are too busy to marry and take up the marital responsibilities but still harbor the deep desire to give birth to a child. Independent women deciding to part ways from their partners and freeing themselves from unhappy marriages is also more common in the modern day society.

A confident and single working mother is usually very capable of fulfilling the parental responsibilities all by herself without a male partner. Single working mothers intend to give special attention to their child, which is in a way beneficial to the emotional and spiritual growth of the child and makes him feel more secure and confident.

The sole aim of a single mother by choice or by chance is to provide the best for her child and cater to all their needs. In the absence of the benignant influence of a male role model, these mothers are expected to double up as a father too to the growing child. This genre of modern women, the single mothers by choice or by chance, are physically and emotionally very strong and capable and are driven by a powerful instinct to raise their children to be the same.

Be the Ideal Mother

A child is carried in a mother's womb for 9 months before he/she is blessed with the light of the world. To every child his/her mother is the most perfect creature on earth, the loveliest and the most infallible.

It is not al all easy to be a role model mother. There are no hard and fast written rules to be the ideal mother or the ideal parent. The most important tip would be to understand the responsibility of instilling the best values in her child's mind and bring the child up to be a confident, happy and good human being.

An ideal mother is one who inculcates the best of family values in her children. She also has tons of patience to put up with the childish tantrums and makes the child feel satisfied and happy without being over-indulgent. She is usually a mixture of the toughness of granite and softness of blossoms, the sharpness of razor and the coolness of mountain streams, the calmness of still water and the purity of untrodden snow. She is the child's best friend. She is there for the child through every thick and thin. In one word, she is the light of her child's life. All mothers should aspire to be the role model mother to your child.


Motherhood Myth

Marriage, motherhood, maternal instinct, mothering, maternal responses are all associated very closely with the entity called mother. The way a mother feels for her child is instinctive, with a number of hormonal and psychological factors involved. There are certain well-defined and clear-cut ways in which mothers react to their responsibility of child bearing, child rearing and home making.

Most women go through the phase of experiencing the fantasies of the motherhood myth and many other myths associated with it, for example, myth of "instant bonding" and of "ideal mother." This fantasy actually prepares the mother in her to undergo the entire painfully pleasurable experience of mothering a child.

The myths of instant bonding and ideal mother make the whole concept of motherhood seem so rosy, stimulating, meaningful and enriching. They actually encourage every woman to cherish the feeling of being a mother to a child and also the desire of mothering the child in the most perfect manner possible.


Working Mothers

A working mother is a superwoman with the extraordinary flair for balancing her family responsibilities and her responsibilities as an employee. As the saying goes, she has to have her cake and also eat it. With a motto to balance work and life---a working woman is striving to excel in both. The exponentially rising number of working women force in organizations is a proof of that.

The toughest part of the story is to strike the right balance so that the family members do not feel neglected on account of her career and at the same time she should not be left far behind when it comes to fulfilling her job responsibilities. Instead of looking for sympathy and consideration from her employee and colleagues, she should try and succeed in not giving anybody a chance to differentiate her from her full-time devoted women co-workers without family responsibilities.

A working woman and a mother, that too a single working mother, the role is tough and challenging. Being the sole guardian angel to her child and also the sole breadwinner of the family with an immense responsibility to raise her children all by herself, her role undoubtedly calls for a woman with plenty of emotional strength and a steely determination. The successful, role model, single mothers have proved that the idea of working mother and impact on child is not that scary anymore. The fact that, even single mothers can set excellent standards and above par examples when it comes to raising children, is now a proven fact. The society is now more considerate, supportive and receptive to this new genre of working mothers abounding in almost every field.