Not All Mothers Deserve To Be Celebrated On Mother’s Day

Not All mothers deserve to be celebrated on Mothers Day just as many hold the view that fathers’ day is not really relevant. We ask, is the day for mothers or Ladies or women? We can celebrate all women on International Women’s Day but we cannot celebrate all of them on Mother’s Day.

Today is like a birthday for some people. The fact that you were born in May does not mean you qualify to celebrate your birthday today. With this mindset, we hold the view that Mother’s Day celebrations should not be diluted by celebrating all women or ladies who do not know what it really means to be a mother.

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Let us not give unnecessary credit to all ladies or women on a day purposely for mothers.

The big question is who is a mother?

This is a difficult question to answer fully however, a true mother is a woman with virtually endless love, protection, selflessness at the peril of her life. A sacrificial lamb who seeks the welfare of her children with the aim of making them competent beings she can look at and say, all my genuine sacrifices paid off.

A mother provides emotional warmth. Such people subjugate their personal comfort for the child. You see, it is so complex and a preserve of those who deserve it. It is like a Nobel Peace Prize. Everyone cannot be celebrated today.

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Sadly, it’s Mother’s Day…Because we don’t want to offend ladies or women, in general, we seem to lump them all together to congratulate them. That is wrong.

It is that emotional connection between a mum and the child that makes one to be called a mother, but being celebrated today goes beyond that.

We have some women who have helped and treated people better than their biological mothers would have done to them but not all women are mothers.

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There are those who gave birth as well yet don’t qualify to be mothers because of some mistakes or issues they failed to handle properly.

Let us celebrate those that genuinely deserve the mother status, Don’t let every woman out there feel they are a part of the ‘Sheroes’ we are celebrating. Don’t throw around the feel-good wishes. Happy Mother’s Day to the genuine mothers out there…You know sincerely if you are worth celebrating or not.