Little girls become like their mothers, teenagers rebel against them. When a woman becomes a young mother, it is she who serves with her wisdom and help with her newborn baby. It is by her side that we grow up gazing at her with pride and listening to her life wisdom.
We all know perfectly well that feeling when we catch ourselves thinking how our behaviour is similar to our mother's.
As adult women, we often unconsciously imitate our mothers. We copy her behaviour, of course, loudly denying that we don't behave like them at all. When the time comes for us to become mothers ourselves, we realise that we are raising our children in the same way as our mothers. Only then do we realise what feelings accompanied them when we were small and vulnerable. What drove them, what fears and anxieties they had.
Despite our protests and internal rebellions, the fact is. We are just like them, whether we like it or not. It is therefore worth nurturing this extraordinary and unbreakable bond.
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Every one of us has something to be grateful to her mother for. For some it is chic and graceful, for others sensitivity and caring, for others personal charm and resourcefulness. It is worth finding these qualities in yourself, appreciating them and shaping them in yourself, so that at the end of your life you can say: 'Mum, I want to be like you'.
