By Rozany Guzman<\/p>\n
Mother\u2019s Day can be seen as one of the nation\u2019s most widely celebrated holidays. It\u2019s a day full of love, kisses, handmade gifts, and spa days. However, mothers deserve so much more than what money can buy. With all the time they dedicate to their children and families, it would seem nothing could ever be enough.<\/span><\/p>\n Nine months spent carrying a child: morning sickness, swollen feet, and back pains. Then there are hours, an entire day in some cases, spent on a hospital bed clenching away contractions. They go home and wake up at the ungodly hours of the morning to feed a crying baby and then cradle it back to sleep. There are years spent waking a child up for school, packing school lunches, walking to the bus stop. Then, coming home from work to cook and help with homework. <\/span><\/p>\n A mother\u2019s work is never done.<\/span><\/p>\n And even after their adult children move out, they \u00a0wake up to late night calls for advice. They\u2019re always available, willing to help even when we\u2019re supposed to be off on our own. Then there\u2019s the free daycare, when they take in their grandchildren whenever the parents can\u2019t. They come visit and put together a nostalgic home cooked meal. Our moms are always there, even when we think we don\u2019t need them.<\/span><\/p>\n That is why a mere 24 hours cannot possibly be enough to honor a hard-working woman who has dedicated her life to her children.<\/span><\/p>\n A study conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan, examining only the traditional male-female paradigm of the home, found that women with more than three kids had an average of 28 hours of housework per week. Married men with more than three kids had about 10 hours of housework.<\/span><\/p>\n This study refers to a household setting where the mom handles domestic chores such as, washing the dishes, cooking, cleaning, and doing the laundry. Let\u2019s not forget that most women, mothers included, work 4-8 hours a day outside of the home. This data average excludes the countless others who take on even heavier loads to care for their families.<\/span><\/p>\n With all of that responsibility left in a mother\u2019s arms, there should be no doubt as to why Mother\u2019s Day is worth $8 billion more than Father\u2019s Day in sales (according to some research from the Huffington Post).<\/span><\/p>\n Mothers never stop feeling pain for their children. They worry when we\u2019re not in their sight; they cry with us when we\u2019re hurting; they lose sleep thinking about and taking care of us; they wreck their brains trying to figure out ways to help in matters that there\u2019s nothing they can do. A mother\u2019s journey to complete her task of nurturing is one unequaled.<\/span><\/p>\n She\u2019s there when we first open our eyes. She\u2019s there when we first trip. She\u2019s there to play with us. She\u2019s there for us, and that mother-child bond is almost innate.<\/span><\/p>\n So, there is no amount of time that will allow for a full expression of the gratitude we owe our mothers. We should take our time with them; we should make sure they know we love them; we should help them in their troubling moments. Moms are always there for us, the least we could do is return the favor.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Rozany Guzman Mother\u2019s Day can be seen as one of the nation\u2019s most widely celebrated holidays. It\u2019s a day full of love, kisses, handmade gifts, and spa days. However, mothers deserve so much more than what money can buy. With all the time they dedicate to their children and families, it would seem nothing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[345,720,1873,2682,2702,2703],"class_list":["post-6914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-opinion","tag-appreciation","tag-celebration","tag-holiday","tag-mom","tag-mother","tag-mothers-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t