My mother is an icon.

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This is my first time posting on this community "motherhood" and I have read the guidelines which clearly stated that the post should be unique and genuine and as well be clear to understand. I'm writing my experience of having a mother. I am not a mother but once before I had a mother and there was something that I want to share.

A little story about me
To start with, when I was still a little boy, I lived among my extended family members, where there are fathers and mothers, step brothers and step sisters, and my brother among others.
My father was transferred to another place to work, mom was the one in care of her children. She had to come and pick up her children in school after leaving her place of work, visit the market on her way home, purchase foodstuff and make sure that all her children are well feed.

Motherhood could be so frustrating without a loving and caring husband, sometimes when a mom has to go through a lot of stress, at the end of the day, she did not get any credit for doing that because she is away from her husband. Sometimes, a mother finds it interesting to take care of children when she is assured that there is support for her.

In a situation where a woman has to live with her inlaws in a house for many years all because her husband has gone in search of their daily bread and the inlaw might be so mean sometimes that they won't give the woman the happiness that she deserves in her husband house. This could be so frustrating because raising children might be very difficult in such an environment.

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A mother might choose to maintain her privacy but as the child begins to grow and they will like to interact with each other. At a point like this, a mother might want to release the children to engage and interact with other children in the neighborhood. In a situation where a mother needs to safeguard her children using giving them the desirable nutrition and her reputation by teaching her children morals for her to adapt to the environs

Many times while the children are outside, they might get into trouble, and only the mother is available to rescue them. Most of those days when I use to go out to play football after school. I used to get into trouble with one big guy.
He is used to bullying us around the corner of the field. Sometimes, he will chase me to where I live and my mother will protect me from him and take me into the house

Conclusion
Raising a child single or while the father is away can be very challenging sometimes could be challenging and it requires a lot of time. The belief that motherhood is easy is not realistic and because of this assumption, many men believe that all it entails is just money but it goes beyond money.

It is of interest for a man who is a way to ask after the affair of his children and create a solid relationship with them even though he is away from his children.