Being a mother is one of the greatest challenges you'll have in life. It takes so much of your time and patience - clearing up the cluttering, getting healthy food for your child, and then trying to somehow to convince your child to eat it. You have to go through crying, minor squabbles, and full-on tantrums.

This daily grind of mothering gets to be overwhelming, especially when you get the idea of questioning yourself if you're going about it properly, if there's something you failed to do or make or give, because it seems so much harder that you had even imagined it to be. You look around and wonder how others seem to be taking it all in stride, enjoying afternoons at the park, savouring the sunsets or the cool breeze by the shore. Then you get tempted to entertain the thought of wishing for a 'pause' key to get away from this rollercoaster ride of mothering for a while, catch your breath and have time for yourself, to think awhile, to recharge.Can you change your mothering of suffering and struggle to mothering of fulfilment and peace? Yes, you can. Of course, it doesn't happen overnight. Or in a year. Or without some other effort from you.

First you have to accept that mothering comes from the spirit. This calls for character development much more than academic or intellectual development. We all have the qualities and capabilities needed for good parenting. It's just that along the way to growing up, only a few of the qualities were nurtured and developed while the rest remained latent.

All women have tenderness, patience, generosity, sympathy, self-assurance, peacefulness, eagerness, and discipline. All of this just has to be encouraged to flow out from within. Don't focus on your flaws, instead, celebrate your strengths, no matter how insignificant some o hem may seem to you.

Some may think it's cool to be dissatisfied and negative about mothering. Wanting and working towards having a home of harmony, being the prime caregiver of physical and emotional needs of your family may be looked upon as lack of ambition. Some may even raise brows if you consider mothering and motherhood the best part of your life, your major achievement. Be that as it may, mothering is a lifetime experience that has no equal, can push you beyond limits you didn't know, can bring out the best in you.

This is the perfect opportunity to become the mother that you want to be, for you to discover strengths that you didn't know you had. Having a connection with a child enables you to respond on so many levels. This connection extends to your spouse, and to the rest of your family. You will feel as many women have felt, when they joined the ranks those who are called: "mother."

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