Supermom (Imelda Victoria)

I have this very interesting event in my class on yesterday monday. We counting every work that our mom did and the fee for each work. It’s just an estimated wage but the total is enough to drop our jaw. And every mom in this world at least have done their housework for more than half century. So, how much your mom’s wages? Count it yourself. When you’ve done it, you’ll realize that your money and ‘thank’s’ word aren’t enough to paid them. For me, i gives my mom my love and my health. Love to show that i always remember everything she’s done for raising me since birth, and then health to show that i’m a good result of her works. Imagine, without mom i won’t be as healthy as i am now and i won’t ever love my mom if i don’t know her and all her effort to raise me. And my mom too, if her beloved child didn’t love and acknowledge her, how could she be happy? how could she be a well-being since happiness is the key to be a well-being. So, i want to give my mom a happiness so she can become a well-being. I won’t give this as a payment, i give this as a prize. If this is a payment then i only did this to paid my mom, not to appreciated her effort. That’s my case.

Actually, we can’t do the same thing to our mom like others did to their mom. Why? of course, it’s because every mom did different things from other mom. As we have known, there are moms who didn’t do any housework but instead working outside to help family’s income (dual income family), and there are moms who gave all their time to do housework, also there are the moms who did dual role (working outside and doing housework). This last kind of moms discussed on yesterday monday’s class. I think this one is the most tiring role. In one side, they need to do their work outside ,and in other side, they need to take care both their husband and child. It’s good if their husband could lend a hand to help them. But if they aren’t, you can imagine how busy this kind of mother is. Not only busy, there are a lot lot lot… of things come to their mind every time and sometimes it’s mixed up. Doing an office work and in the same time thinking what she’s gonna cook for today’s dinner. This is how to draw a dual role mom in their daily life.

Another thing to be mentioned, i and my friends did our presentation about radical feminism back then. In my part, there is a part talking about women as a mother. Radical feminist see women as a different thing as mother. Women is a human being and mother is a role. Because of ‘motherhood’ in women nature, people often see this as one thing. I’ve did a presentation about why this kind of thing happen but i didn’t talk about how this is happen. I’ve got the answer from the second group’s presentation. This is my answer from my view, as i’ve explained a little about mom who have dual role above, we can see that this kind of mom having her thought mixed up. She thinks about her office work and her housework at the same time. These things always mixed and almost impossible to be separated.

Doing housework is actually a part of motherhood, if this thing always mixed up in most of women’s daily life, of course a society would see a women and a mother as one thing. It’s true that women and mother are a different thing, but we should know that mother and motherhood is an one thing. If a woman has decided to be a mother, she should be responsible with her choice. Because of this responsible thing, a woman couldn’t leave their status as a mother. Isn’t it wonderful thing? that our mom prior their status as a mother over her own personal thing as a woman? Isn’t it like a patriotic story? Really, this kind of woman is the one that must be treasured.

Mom is not my debt-collector. My mom is a supermom!

9 September 2012