The hand that rocks the boardroom cannot rock the cradle

The hand that rocks the cradle can rock the boardroom

After being raised by a mother who´s time has been mostly spent working and trying to run a business, it is definite for me that a working mother can not expect to be good mother. Comparing my working mother´s job as a mother to my friend´s mothers who spend all of their time and energy focused on raising their child, makes it crystal clear that the characteristics needed to be a good mother, at least from my point of view, are not completed by my mother. It is just out of the question, either you do one thing properly or the other. Mothers can’t expect to have to completely different jobs that require their complete attention and excel at both. Either they do one thing or the other. In order to be a salient mother, attention or just the simple act of being present throughout their children´s day is very necessary. For most hard-working mothers, babysitters, or in some cases day care, are their sweet escape from having to deal with their children; what they don’t know is that the more they depend on the babysitters to meet their children´s need for attention, the more distant they grow from their children. Since having a job or running a business draws most of a mother´s attention, it is impossible for her to think that she is doing a good job as a mother. All of this attention is being given by the babysitter, therefore making her play the role of a mother in the child´s life and creating a vast distance between the child and the mother. It is most important for a mother to be present in her son or daughter´s life physically as crucial as it is for her to be there mentally. It is frustrating for any child to lack the presence od a mother in their life. The nanny or the babysitter fills in this gap, but it still doesn’t suffice for the huge abyss. Simple things like taking their kids to soccer, or assisting their school reunions are not most likely to be done by a busy woman. These things are