A Mothers Work
Is Homemaking

A mother's first responsibility in homemaking is her children. Whether she works outside the home or not, the biggest thing she does is care for the kids.

We have all heard of over bearing mothers who micromanage every aspect of their children's lives.

Obviously, this is not good for the children, or the mother.

Overbearing mothers are too much but the opposite of that is also not right.

I call it under bearing. This is when a mother puts no effort into mothering. She doesn't do her motherly job.

She is under bearing.

I mention in other parts of this website the problems I have with my ex-wife. Being a good mother to the kids is not one of those. She is quite a good and loving mother and does that role very well.

When my son was in second grade we had just moved to a new city and he was upset since he didn't have any friends.

His first friend in our new city seemed to be a nice boy.

We found out later that he had problems and really wasn't a good person for my son to be friends with.

One of his problems was that his mother was under bearing.

She didn't make him do the normal things that mothers make their kids do.

She didn't have him go to bed early most of them time, not even on school nights.

Her attitude was, oh well, it's just too hard to get him to go to bed.

So she would just let him stay up playing video games until he fell asleep on the couch from exhaustion.

She would just let him eat candy and junk food, saying it was just too much work to fix him good meals and besides he won't eat it anyway.

Of course, he did poorly in school.

He was too tired to listen.

Her under bearing nature did no good for her son. She did not have any homemaking ability and her son suffered for it.

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