커뮤니티
BRITISH EDUCATION
공지사항
Joanna Bull 선생님
admin
2014-07-07
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Having been a mum for over 4 years and having gone through a variety of exciting jobs in different parts of the world beforehand I cannot honestly think of a better and more fulfilling job a woman can immerse herself in as the one to bring up a child. Some might squabble whether women, instead of calling it “a full time job” should admit that in fact it is their “role in life”. While the argument will remain forever unsettled all mums will agree that whether we call it a role or a job it is definitely the best paid one in the world! Looking at a day in the life of an “average” mother anywhere in the world we find quite a few duties that we all have in common, despite our differences, whether we are rich or poor or sustaining our professional career or without work commitment and looking after the household. All our “motherly” lives we are devoted to the same mission -to ensure our children’s well -being. From the moment THEY wake up in the morning until THEY eventually fall asleep in the evening (quite often we manage to get there first and find it’s them reading us the story while we’re only “resting our eyes”), through the early stages packed with daily routines of washing, cleaning, dressing, cooking, feeding -the list is endless here and it all goes day by day in circles-followed by the toddlers years where more duties are thrown in (taking them to school, helping with homework, exposing them to different interests and hobbies etc) and finally reaching their teenage years (helping with decisions about their future, pretending not to notice they think or have indeed fallen in love and comforting them when they hearts are broken by the “girl/boy next door”! As the volume of responsibilities keeps bumping up to fade away with the passing of time there is one role that will never cease to exist and it is indeed the one of a teacher, a life guide, a friend and companion through one’s proverbial ups and downs. As we started at the very beginning helping them to awaken their senses by guiding their teeny weenie fingers through the smoothness of their skin and the roughness of their dad’s unshaven face (no offence dads we all know YOU had a bad night sleep), shaking their first toy in front of them, feeding the eyes with vibrant colours and bringing the rattling sounds to their ears, introducing a pot of flavours to excite their taste buds, poking their noses into any new found flower to soak up the scent of nature. We helped them when they first crawled, sat up, stood up, took their first steps and then ran around in circles asking to be chased forever. And so we shall continue simply to be there for them throughout their years of growing up, providing them with the best lessons of life that are there of love, trust and friendship, presenting them with our advise and experience just like our mothers did for us and our grandmothers for them. We might not be able to solve their mathematical riddles they bring back home from school or tell them how Albert Einstein came to his conclusions, but we can always give them a cuddle and offer them a nice cup of tea and some biscuits and advice to go and seek the answers to their questions by further reading and research in the future years. In the end “a mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary” and we might not be able to make our children climb to the moon but we should at least be able to help them take their feet off the ground.  |
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