One of the basic characteristics of nature is sustainability which is an apparent role a mother exhibits. Nature gives life to all and sundry, so a mother supports the growing of her child.
The father as the head of the home goes out early morning hunts for food and returns late in evening. While the father is out the mother effectively maintaining the family at the home front. Hence a home without a mother sooner or later collapses because the children may become wayward.
In some countries, including Nigeria, second Sunday in the month of May every year is set aside to celebrate Mother’s Day. Anna Jarvis was the driving force behind the first Mother’s Day observance in 1908. Though the initiator never had children of her own, but in 1905 death of her mother inspired her to organize the first Mother’s Day in 1908.
Mother’s Day has its own significant. It is a day children spend time with their mother and thank her for all what she has done in their lives.
It is not a day to celebrate a wicked mother, who abandon her children and refuse to play her roles as helpmeet in the home. There are so many bad mothers who through their actions and behaviour jeopardize the future of their children.
As a good woman and precious mother I always extend something good to my mother, not only on Mother’s Day, but now and then until she joined the saints in Glory on December 17, 2014.
This year’s Mother’s Day passes without my mother, Madam Asikiya Sokari Ojuka Amachree alive who was so dear to my life. I have nothing to offer now than to keep her legacy and give her a befitting burial next month. ###
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