Motherhood in Metaphors: Happy Mother's Day

On Mother’s Day, words often fall short of capturing the boundless love, strength, and quiet brilliance of a mother. But sometimes, poetry steps in where language pauses.

Motherhood in Metaphors is a tribute to every mother who has ever shaped a soul, anchored a storm, and lit the first fire of belonging in a child's life. We’ve tried to capture a mother’s essence through a constellation of metaphors, each one an attempt to sketch the indescribable. A mother’s presence is rarely loud, but always life-altering—felt in tides, kites, and laughter. Through these metaphors, we celebrate her eternal imprint on our journeys.

Why Mothers are kicking off Golden pedestal

You can do this if you are a mother.

You can easily understand the child's problem, you are a mother.

You must know why the baby's stomach aches as you are a mother.

These are some general statements every mother has heard of, agree? Mothers are the supreme human beings, and we all love our mothers to the core. There are little things that make a mother superior or if I may say the best to create the world for a child. Mothers have a connection with a child that cannot be substituted but wait before you make the mother stand on a golden jewelled pedestal.

Mother Earth keeps her heart out on this #MothersDay

Mother Earth is recovering, healing, evolving and gleaming with new energy. Her flora and fauna got back their long lost homes. She is safe as bad radiations will not harm her. But she is not looking happy and content, she obviously cannot be. A mother wants to see her every child happy and prosperous.

The human race is on complete turmoil so how can she ignore her child as being a mother her heart pours for everyone. She is praying to heal the sufferings fast, but she is afraid that this arrogant child of her will ever understand the importance of her creation, will respect her or will take steps to protect her. 

Nevertheless her nature is to give, give equally to all. She can only hope that this time there will be transformation in thoughts and her child will emerge as a winner who will never let her mother weep again. These poetic lines expresses what Mother Earth feels about the changes in her and in her child (humans).

Nutritious Mother's Day

Happy Mothers Day to all the caring, loving Mothers.

On this mother’s day, let’s us emphasis on the love the mother showers on her child in form of food she serves. A mother from day one of her motherhood takes an extra effort to ensure that her baby is receiving healthy food. And healthy food terminology changes with each mother as sometimes in utmost love mothers overlook the minute details of meal served. In India, mothers generally focus on the physical growth of a child and not the overall brain development and immunity levels. The diet normally followed in Indian households is rich in macronutrients like carbohydrates, fats and proteins, supporting only physical growth but lack in micro nutrients, which is necessary for overall mental and brain development.

Gaps in daily nutrition with nutritional quality lead to nutrient deficiencies to set in at an early age. Hence, you may not be aware of your child’s nutritional deficiency even if he/she looks physically fit. Micro nutrients like Iron, Calcium, Vitamins, and Minerals play an important role in building a baby's immunity against major infections. The consequences of micronutrient deficiency among infants are far reaching and include greater morbidity due to diarrheal and viral infections, measles, reduced vaccine responses, impaired growth, and development. Doctors in India say that there is a huge gap in the knowledge about the role of micronutrients in building immunity.

Stuff Mothers Shun

A Mother teaches lessons in life's long run,

while many things she purposely shun.

At 1 she intentionally leave your hand,

to teach you walk and steadily stand.

At 2 she ignores all your tantrums thrown,

to imbibe you with moral values well known.

At 5 she stops playing with you,

as she knows sharing lesson stands in queue.

At 10 she pays no heed towards your dressing, 

as she wants you to build your own styling.

At 13 she cease listening to complaints,

as quality of letting go in you gets deeply ingrained.

Novel Gift to MOM

My Mom is a great cook, said one

My mother manages house and work excellently, believed another.

My mamma never forgets a single thing, she is perfect, proudly said one.

My Ma is superhuman, super hero and so on…

Such were the posts recently in social media on occasion of mother’s day or I say social media was flooded with delightful messages for mother. How we all tribute our success to her is not new as mothers are so special. Mother’s care and concern cannot be delivered by anyone, as their single touch makes us feel relaxed and confident. God has sent angels in every one’s life and mother’s magic wand vanishes all our troubles.

My MOM My WORLD

But surely it’s not an easy task to do each and every thing flawlessly, how much pressure mothers take, I am sure it cannot be measured on any scale. If you say a mother do not stress for a day and go out and relax, then outing is more stressful for them as their entire concentration is on the concern for the tasks. As we cannot replace an alphabet with another in password, any person cannot replace mother and neither can anybody take her stress levels. I remember saying to my mom that why don’t you rest for a week and she answered beautifully “I am never tired with such tasks, it’s only that sometimes my energy levels does not match my passion of motherhood”.  Now what could I answer to this but I surely remember her liner when I have to do multi tasking.

Unique Gift to your MOM

So what can be done to de stress our loving mothers? Something that express love, care and less time consuming as mothers are most busy person in the world. Parachute has come up with Advansed Aromatherapy Oil which de-stress all tensions and relaxes a person with beautiful aromatic massage.

How easy to make your mother energetic and revitalising again in few minutes and that too you spend some quality time with your loved one. A simple head massage shall make her relaxed of all worries for some time and you actually get to do something for your loving mother.

A wonderful and special gift to your mother that is also novel one and is not a usual gifts like gadgets, dress, books or kitchen appliances. And the best part is that your mother will feel the care you are showering on her.

“I’m blogging about why my mother needs to de-stress with a Parachute Advansed Aromatherapy Oil massage for the #StressFreeMom activity at BlogAdda.”

@Sonal     

माँ : खुशियोँ का आँचल

आज पुछा मेरी बिटिया ने , 
चलो माँ एक खेल खेलें ,

मैं बाँधू सवालों के पुल, 
एक एक कर तुम देना हल।

सवाल सरल ही होंगे देखो, 
झटपट जवाब तैयार रखना ,

जो कुछ है तेरे मन में,
वैसे ही उत्तर देना।

पहला सवाल है माँ बताना ,

क्या है तेरा रंग पसंदीदा ,

क्या तुझको भाए खाने में,

और क्या चाहे तू करना।

सोचा बहुत टटोला मन को,

इसका उत्तर कहीं छुपा है,

जवाब तो बिटिया रानी ,

मन में मेरे बसा है।

जो रंग तुझे पसंद है बिटिया ,

वही मेरा पसंदीदा है ,

आज कहीं मन मेरा सब में ,

घुलमिल सा गया है।

मुझे स्वाद लगे वही जो ,

जो तेरा मन चाहा है ,

मुस्कराहट जो तुम्हारे होटों पे लाए ,

संतोष वहीँ कार्य में मिलता है।

बिटिया रानी सुनकर सारे जवाब ,

ताकती रही मेरे हाव भाव ,

फिर अचानक मेरे आँचल में आ गई,

हल्के अश्रु भरे और मुस्कान से बोली,

माँ तू है कितनी प्यारी ,

जो सारी खुशियाँ मुझपे वारी ,

संसार में सबसे अद्भूत और अनोखी माँ ,

तुझसा ना कोई है और ना कोई होगा माँ । 

- मीनल  

English Translation

Today my daughter said,

to play a game with her,

She said I will ask series of questions,

one by one I need to solve.

Best Mother's Day Quotes for every MOTHER

Happy Mother’s Day to all endearing and divine mothers in the world; this day marks many striking factors of motherhood. Many qualities assemble in mother right from selfless, caring, working, mentoring, multitasker, to always working. This mother’s day dedicate the beautiful and meaningful quote to your mother and see the warmth and love in her eyes. 

Make your mother feel on top of the world with these remarkable quotes; present the quote in such a manner as though it was only written for her. Write it down in a letter or card, bake a cake with a lovely message, or just walk up to her and say the quote that best describes your mom; and surely she will hold you as a child.

Why My Mother is My World

Oh! mother how much you care, by my side always there;

Your heart beats for me, wherever I may be;

Ma! I call when in pain; your presence relieves same;

You taught me to step out, with utmost courage and proud;

Unspoken words you understand, and prepare me to withstand;

I wish to be like you, you are my life and my world.

The above lines are straight from my heart for my mother who is my world, and it also essays how a mother’s life is always centered towards child; in last post “Mother – Our Lifeline” too we have seen how mother showers all love on her child. In this post we shall see that how a mother is a child’s Center of attraction. Keith L Brooks beautifully quoted “A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "Where mother is." 

Usually, a child observes his/her mother very keenly and learns a lot of things like good values, respect, sharing and even language too, on a lighter note maybe that’s why we call it as’ mother tongue’.Child shows utmost love and care to mother and calls her with many beautiful and loving names such as “Mamma, Ma, Amma, Mom, Mommy, Ammi, Aai.  Whatever be the calling name the emotion and love hidden in it is same. For a child, mother is center of life & world and the rest of things revolve around her. It is very well quoted that “Mother, the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart“.

The emotion between mother & child is so strong and is nurtured right from the time when child feels its first senses. Even a toddler, who is just gaining knowledge day by day, feels reassured to see mother around when restless. Her presence boosts our confidence and we feel protected, and motivated under her guidance. Right from birth child knows how to express to mother and amazingly mother too understands the variations in cry. Kid’s love towards mother is blind and has complete faith. If mother shows complete commitment in raising the child, even you see a complete submissive nature of child towards mother.

Mother - Our Lifeline

A: I am getting bored, what to do
B: No worries I will entertain you
A: I am hungry, give me my favorite food
B: Here it is your yummy dish
A: I am losing confidence
B: You can do it, give your best
A: I want to play
B: Let’s play dear
A: I am in big confusion, what shall I do?
B: You are free to do what your heart wishes to, don’t afraid I am there for you.

Doesn’t the above lines sound familiar to all, and remind us of ourselves, yes the person ‘A’ is you as a child and person ‘B’ is none other than your loving mother. Mother plays many roles as an Entertainer, as a Cook, as a Manager, as a Companion, Mentor, Guide, and Friend. Child just needs to wish and mother fulfills it, however difficult the task may be, mother is always the rescuer. “Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.”- Marion C. Garretty. Mother is the one who understands the whole story by a single expression, or should I say by a single glance of child’s face. This relation is so special because with rest of the world you connect when you are born but you are attached to your mom right from the beginning. Every Mother, lifelong takes care of child and feels proud of how her imbibed morale and values are appreciated in the society; such appreciation of upbringing washes away all tiredness and the mother is rejuvenated. And child’s values are mostly the reflection of the mother.



Mothers are our Lifeline



Few times when rests of people are judging you, mother is the only one who just understands you and is always by your side as a rock support. There may be different phases of life where we juggle to establish ourselves, our point of view; mother guides us to the right path and great courage as it is required to do that in big world in future. Our Mother protects us from all dangers and always acts as a shield against all odds, but also lets us free like a bird. And whenever you are in trouble the moment you close your eyes and pray for help, the first person your prayers reaches or the one who can sense the discomfort in you is Mother, though you may be many miles away, but your strings are always connected. Mother is such an empowered soul that she is considered next to God, and I am sure God wouldn’t mind coming next to mother in any of prayers. William Makepeace Thackeray very fabulously quoted “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”