I just ran across this quote online and it can be applied just as easily to motherhood:
"I have come to a frightening conclusion.
I am the decisive element in the classroom.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous.
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.
I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.
In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis
will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or de-humanized."
-Haim Ginott
I know I want to be the best mother I can be to my little boy - now, as he grows, and forever. I want to be his source of comfort, security, the one solid thing he can always count on. It is easy to get caught up in all of the other responsibilities and stressors in our adult lives, but raising our children is the most important job we'll ever know.
You have to pour love into a child, never ceasing. Love them and respect them or they will never grow up to love and respect themselves or others.
What an amazing responsibility.
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