Celebrate Mother's Day every day of the year
by Reed Markham
05/08/2009 — Teachers seem to be getting a lot of attention this month. But how about a child’s first teacher. Mothers are a child's first teacher and deserve our praise on Mother's Day and every day of the year. I recently attended a Girl’s on the Run program hosted by the Volusia County Schools at the DeLand airport. I was impressed by the number of mothers who attended to see their child participate in this great activity. The mothers gathered for this event cheered their girls on to success.
Consider for a moment the impact of mothers on education. How are children best trained to be responsible, mature, contributing adults? There is no question that a mother molds the child- who comforts a sick child, who wipes away the tears, who gives so very much, but asks so very little.
According to Sidney lesson, author of RAISING A BRIGHTER CHILD observed: “Whenever the question of educating children is raised, thoughts usually turn to school and to school teachers. But mothers are, and have always been, their children’s first and most important teacher. What mothers teach, or fail to teach, intentionally or unintentionally, profoundly influences their children’s entire lives. Home is, in a practical sense, currently and traditionally, a child’s first school. Here, a child’s learning pattern is established; here the seed is planted, or not, for advanced education. And here each child acquires an assortment of strengths and advantages, or handicaps and vulnerabilities, that predispose him to success or failure, to happiness or unhappiness.”
Hans Selye, a well known doctor who devoted a lifetime to research on stress and coping was asked “can you isolate any single factor that determines what a person becomes?’ Without hesitation he replied, ‘His mother.’
Mothers deserve our support. Mothers deserve the highest consideration from society. David O McKay, a great educator observed: “The noblest calling in the world is that of mother. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can paint a masterpiece or who can write a
book that will influence millions deserves the plaudits and admiration of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose immortal souls will be exerting an influence throughout the ages long after painting shall have faded, and books and statues shall have been destroyed, deserves the highest honor that man can give.”
In an age when mothers are devalued they deserve even more of our praise, support and thanks. Mothers should be remembered and honored not only on Mother’s Day but every day of the year.
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