A Mother's Role Is A Valuable Asset To Our Society

By Author: Tina Turbin
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Chances are, you have an idea of just how important you are as a mother in your household. For instance, what if you were to go out of town for a week? Who would get the kids ready for school, take them to soccer or ballet, help them with their homework? And could you imagine the state of the house after such a length of time? As helpful as your spouse or children may be, without having Mom around to spur them through their daily chores, how often would they do the dishes or remember to take out the trash? And then there's the matter of how they would feed themselves. Clearly, Mom, if it weren't for you, your household would probably collapse.

My experience as a mother (http://TinaTurbin.com) started long ago when I married and became pregnant with the first of my three children at the age of twenty-one. Not only is this role the basis of my work as a children's author, inspiring me to create my children's series, Danny the Dragon (http://DannyTheDragon.com), but it also serves as the foundation of my work as a researcher, writer, and humanitarian. Believe me, this mother thing is no small job. Rather, it is a fundamental job, stabilizing the family dynamic, and a great accomplishment, the gift that keeps on giving, as your own children have children of their own and perpetuate the stable home life you yourself fostered.

Studies are more than ever showing that what parents do now will affect their children's future. There is a study which shows that what a child eats as early as before the age of two will determine his food preferences for the rest of his life. Whether he eats his vegetables or regularly goes through the drive-thru of a fast-food restaurant in his adult life is determined by what Mom chooses to feed him here and now. Of course, Dad will have his input, but if your family is anything like mine or the average family, it's Mom who's picking out the menus for the family and cooking it up, too.

More than that, parental involvement such as staying in tight communication with teachers, participating in school or extracurricular activities, and especially reading to your child are proven ways to ensure that children end up not only literate, but also to make more likely to graduate from high school and attend college. When you look at it, the income-earning potential of your child is determined by how often you help him with his math homework, go to those PTA meetings, and read to him before bed. Now that's a lot of responsibility.

Now that you've taken a look at how your role as a mother is a valuable asset in your own home, which is a fact I'm sure you have figured out all on your own, I urge you take a look at a mother's role in society. Typically, aside from rare exceptions, it is the mother who is charged with the responsibility for rearing children. When it comes to all matters of hygiene, cleanliness, nutrition, schoolwork, etc., it is Mom who oversees these. On a collective scale, statistics of childhood illness and disease, childhood nutrition, and children's literacy could largely be attributed to mothers everywhere just like you and the decisions they make about their own children.

Collectively, therefore, mothers contribute largely to society as a whole, to its health, its productivity, and its wealth. They influence whether their children turn to drugs, alcohol and crime, and so they also have an impact on more serious issues in our society such as drug abuse and criminality.

At home, you get support from your spouse, your neighbors, relatives and children to help you with your job as a Mom. After all, you are a valuable asset in your home and deserve their support. However, with this idea in mind, I encourage you to find ways to support other moms you know and moms in your community. Clearly, moms everywhere are an asset to our society and they deserve our support, too.

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About Author:
Tina Turbin (http://TinaTurbin.com) is a children's published author, writer, researcher, humanitarian and mom. Working for many years with children in the Entertainment Business and raising three talented and successful children with her husband, Tina has always been an advocate for families, women's issues, children, literacy, education, celiac disease, health and nutrition as a way to improve the quality of lives and health for others.