Are Working Mums Any Less A Better Mother

Is there really a best mum in the world (Britain) out there? The reason I ask is because our regular TV station GMTV announced this morning that they are running a competition to find Britain's best mum and, the winner gets to jet off on a holiday to Barbados with a thousand pounds spending money in their pocket. I thought at the time if this is the appropriate title for the competition. Would it not be fairer to call it "Why you "think" your mum is the best in Britain?

Of course kids will always see their mum as to being the best over any other but is this good enough for her to be nominated by the child. Although the child may see her as the best, is it what they believe to be the truth. Kids are kids and if their mum doesn't live up to nor does, what their mate's mother does then their mom comes under fire as to not being dutiful when they want something or other. Some moms are fortunate enough to be in a position where they are able to contribute more time into the mom and child relationship. And because of this the outcome would evidently appear to the offspring she is the best mum in the world, but what of the mum in contention that has to go to work – which the outcome from this has the child think mom doesn`t care.

I highlight unfairness here because even though the doting mum wants to do right by her children, circumstance says otherwise or prevents.

Does the best mum stay at home and kiss and cuddle her kids or, does the best mum go to work to clothe and feed them. I really don`t know anymore.

Is it patience? Is it compassion? Is it the ability to cook a meal or sew a button on a coat that makes a good mother? Or is it heart? Just because mom goes to work doesn`t mean she hasn`t a heart, she would have felt the same pain like your friend`s mother after having to leave you on your first day in school. Do good moms flee from wherever they are to hug their child if they have a fall or other? Of course they do. Mothering and nurturing is natural for moms and especially for them whose head turns automatically when a little voice calls "Mom?" in a crowd, even though knowing not her child. A good mum is one who`s child has gone astray and cannot find the words to reach them - but still stick around and support them until they do.

If a child knows what is involved with being a mum then there is every possibility that their mates mom will come nowhere in same the league as their own. Just because mum is out at work and cannot afford the new cell phone for you, does not make her any less of a better mother than the next.

Patience, compassion, love and the ability to cook dinner or sew a button on a coat are all the finest of qualities that your mom will have, however if you still can`t see this and feel badly done to because mom is out at work all day – you can bet a bottom dollar you are never out of her thoughts. The competition that brought this to light although named wrong in my eye hopefully will see the importance of pointing this out to children that best mums whether living in Britain or any other part of the world are those that never stop caring till their dying day.

I did say earlier that I think it more ideal  to call this competition  "Best Mum in Britain"  to "Why You "Think" Your Mum Is the Best in Britain" and would like to add also that they should consider swapping "Best" to "Caring" and, by doing this they will have every mum in Britain up for nomination.