Mothering my son has profoundly changed me.
I am mid-thirities, hold an MA in Humanities, worked as a preschool teacher, high school teacher, and college professor. Once I had Lars, my head was spinning. I had all these thoughts about life and how children shape us through this “sacred work of mothering.”
He is my muse, my guru, and will forever be my baby. He reminds me in various ways of our accountability of parents to offer the best versions of ourselves to our children.
I am a stay-at-home mother. There have been days where I have been so bored, so lonely that I find my mind yelling,”Stay awake!” from the inside. The mundane parts of motherhood has humbled me in powerful ways.
The book Momma Zen reminds us that “The great transformative potential of a mother’s work is that it is mindless. No thinking of any kind is required….When you can do anything as though you work at nothing, you have the best days of your life.”
Children offer an opportunity of deep contemplation for parents. This can either be heavy or enlightening.
It’s up to us to recognize these openings as paths of personal transformation – these moments are our ways of “trying to master the human experience” too.
