She was very reassuring and said I could call her anytime. With my first child, I called her nearly every day for advice on what to do. I remember once I fed the baby orange juice and all of a sudden she threw it up -- it shot across the room and really scared me. I called my husband's mother and she said I needed to dilute it before I fed it to the baby -- either that, or buy "baby orange juice" for her. It wasn't just the physical aspects of their care that worried me. I wasn't sure how to relate to them. My husband said, "Just relate to them as little human beings," and of course, that is what they are. But it wasn't quite that simple. How much should I hold them? When should I be strict and when should I be lenient? Should a mother be the boss? How democratic should a mother be and when should children make their own decisions? All of this seemed so mysterious! I do know that I want to be "there" for my children. I like to be at home when they come in from school, for example, so they aren't confronted by an empty house...
I try to be open and receptive to questions and to answer them carefully and honestly. I don't want them to be embarrassed to ask me things, like I was to ask my father. I want them to know my values and ideals, too. I take them to church and it seems like it makes up a little bit for my missing out on it when I was a child. The minister in my church told me God is my mother and, therefore, I have always had a mother who loves me infinitely. I love the thought -- it is a comfort to me -- but I also wish my human mother had been present in the flesh as I was growing up. I would like her to have been there when I graduated from high school. I would have liked her to be at my wedding. And I would have liked her to be a grandmother to my children. There is so much I missed, it sounds like I'm complaining and feeling sorry for myself, but actually I'm doing pretty well. I don't think I am too bad as a parent because my kids are happy and they do well in school. I think my mother would have been proud of me.
The pictorial values, and the acting of both "Erin Brockovich" and "Good Night and Good Luck" are profoundly different than "Mother," although both show political awakenings. The more recent American films focus on extraordinary individuals, persons of physical beauty and glamour, or persons of great fame and influence, and the acting is differential, unique, and what the characters say is equally as important as what they do, unlike "Mother." It
"Alllllllllright now, the party can begin, Uncle Pete is here," my father attempted to catch his brother at the door and stop his entrance salutation. He was not quick enough. "Pete, hold it down this year a bit will ya, Millie is in the dumps with the Kennedy thing and it was all I could do to keep the Dinner on." "Okay Joe, but if anybody got a right to be
Mother's strength often goes unnoticed but now that I am a mother myself I can finally appreciate my mothers' sacrifices. I have come to realize that I owe everything to my mother. Being raised by her and seeing her struggle throughout her life changed me forever. Watching her work two jobs to provide my brothers and sisters and myself with all we needed was painful. I was the oldest of
Parenting Education for Teen Mothers If a community values its children, it must cherish their parents. (John Bowlby) Rationale of intervention population Group based intervention programs Multi-purpose programs Teen Mother Empowerment Program Series (TMEPS) Framework of TMEPS Program-Fig Fig 2-Phased TMEPS Phase 1 sessions Table 1- Session Administration Lesson Plans Evaluation of program outcomes Follow-up plan Continuation of TEMPS Appendix II-Program Evaluation Questionnaire This paper is aimed at presenting a parenting education and support program for teenage mothers. To identify the most basic needs of
An even older mythological source for the reverence of compassionate maternal figures, however, comes out of the culture in which Mother Theresa practiced, rather than from the Christian tradition she lived by. This is the figure of Durga, one of the many incarnations of Kali, the Mother Goddess of the Hindu religion. Alternatively, Kali and the many other forms of the goddess are seen as emanating from Durga (Rajhans, par.
However, as referred to above, one central reason for absent fathers is that society in general no longer advocates a definitive role and structure for the father to adhere to. This can be related to the breakdown in norms and values in contemporary society which previously gave clear guidelines about the importance and purpose of fatherhood. In our postmodern society the norms about traditional fatherhood have been radically questioned
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