MOTHER AND CHILD

I fell in love with my daughter the first time I saw her...but my love grew each day. It's like a hunger I cannot fulfill, a thirst I cannot quench. That no matter how much I give, it still feels not enough.

Read my emotional sharing in Mother and Child as a guest writer to WhatisExquisite.com and feel the love of a mother to a child.

...and tell me if you feel the same way too. Hope you LIKE it ;)

PROVING THAT YOU ARE THE BEST MOM?

We have to admit that it is not always easy to be a mom. Above all the chores you have to do around the house, the bringing and taking of your children to and from the school, the full time work you do if you are also working, and the demands of your better half...is the burden you carry within yourself if you are being a great mom. If you are being the responsible mom rearing them and guiding them which is your ultimate reason for existing now as a mother. If you are "the best mom" for your family.

Its like providing them food. You are feeding them but are you providing them the right food? Are you meeting their nutritional needs? Daily requirement for the vitamin and mineral need of each family member have to be met through the food served every meal, or if not possible, through supplements. And who better to know but the mom.

Molding and training the children also is another responsibility parents carry. Cleanliness and orderliness have to be instilled to them so they will carry it through as they become their own person. Provision of interesting and visually nice items gives further encouragement. You can demand for their rooms to be neat but give them assistance as to how to do it and to give them ways in managing them. Their used clothes need to have a place to go, give them nice looking laundry bag. Appropriate things to appropriate places. Jewelries in jewelry boxes, shoes in shoe racks/boxes, stephen joseph bags or whatever bags in drawers or cases meant for them. Start the training as early as possible. Mold when they are still MOLD-able, and not when they are already stiff and grown using force.

REMEMBER also that children live by example. They will imitate us. Their eyes are focused on us. And they love us too much to want to become just like us.

The home should always be where they want to go back to. They have to feel the love within. There has to be a welcoming atmosphere...not only emotionally but physically too. They have to feel at ease in there and not be questioned and reprimanded in every move they make. And will not be when they have been trained early on. They have to feel the coziness of the place and not see clutters. It will be an added benefit to have wonderfully built place like that of those with the magnificent work done by Dallas landscaping.

Life at home should be comfortable, filled with warmth and love. And a deserving "You're the best, Mom" would make you sigh in relief knowing that you did made it right. And you are indeed the best!

GIFT FOR EXPECTANT PARENTS

One of the most awaited time of an adult in a family life is the bringing forth of another being into the world: child birth. This is the equivalent of him + her, and the happiness felt during this vulnerability is unsurpassable. And sharing this moment with them through the gifts we give them is an added warmth that will not be forgotten.

CHOOSE something that will have a personal touch. Something that may be big or small but will matter to them and not just giving anything just to have something handed over. Being in that waiting stage, we can make it more exciting by giving what their “parent life” will need. Not always necessarily for the baby, since we can give that during the baby shower (or the Offering). It will be much better to give them what THEY will need. Something like a timer a “tight in the schedule mom” might need, a desk calendar for “office dads”, a one click wall lamp for parents who will have to walk to the nursery at night, a scented candles and shower gels to keep the love going though now a three-some...etc.

Think of what you want and see if they want them, too. There’s a high probability that you have the same “parent need” that will be the best gift to have and give them.