A Mother’s Power of Influence

Recently I met up with a retired teacher. She was expert on early childhood education. Our conversation was not surprisingly all about children issue. As an experience mother and teacher, she gave me many wonderful insights on how a mother impacts on her children’s development.

One thing she impressed me was that the mother’s impact to her children was so confound that it seems to be the most powerful force to shape a child’s temperament in early year, though the personality of this child is subject to many factors’ influence and can be formed and reformed according to circumstance. That is to say a mother can positively or negatively affect her children’s temperament.

We do see many empirical evidences. An anxious mother is often to be seen to have an anxious child; a calm mother is often to be seen to have a confident child; a sad mother, with a sad child; a happy mother, with jubilant child...

Later, I met this lady’s daughter, once again confirmed my “sociological observation”. Her daughter is just like her, having a fine manner and sweetness like fragrance, which is remarkable resembling to her mother.

Therefore, mothers, improve our personal quality and be careful our manners when we interact with others, no matter who they are, your children may not be best listeners, but they are certainly the best observers and they will “inherent” our traits of characters into their lives.