The Power of Moms

Many years ago when I was pregnant with my first child, I found myself watching an online news program - 20/20 or 60 minutes or something like that. I don’t remember the basic subject of that particular episode, but it must have had something to do with education in America.

The crew was following a mom at her home somewhere in the mid-west who was homeschooling her kids.

She had two blonde haired, blue eyed little girls. She taught them math and reading and history.

She also taught them to salute a red flag with a black swastika on it, and to give a straight armed salute. She was teaching them to hate.

I felt sick, disgusted, and horrified at what I was seeing.

What could I possibly do with the information I had been presented with? Was I supposed to fix that? How was I going to make the world a better place knowing that?

I was struck with the thought that if that woman had the power to teach her two innocent daughters to hate others, then I had the power to teach my kids to Love others. And that is what I have done.

We moms are powerful.

We have the ability to shape the present and the future.

But.

We lack belief in ourselves.

Many of us don’t value the work we do. We see dishes and laundry and housekeeping and sassy kids. And when we are short-sighted, we don’t see any tangible immediate rewards for doing any of that work.

So we devalue ourselves, as if getting a paycheck or a title or a promotion is the only way to measure value.

We disempower ourselves.

It’s time to see your value.

I want to show you how to see it.