Happy Mother's Day: Mothers deserve our support

Mothers have a tremendous influence on our lives. Our mothers teach us values. Our mothers teach us how to behave. Mothers have a tremendous influence on our lives. Our mothers inspire us. Our mothers encourage us to do our best.

How are children best trained to be responsible, mature,contributing adults? There is no question that a mothermolds the child -- who comforts a sick child, who wipes away the tears, who gives so very much, but asks so very little. A mother is a child's first teacher

According to Sidney Ledson, author of Raising A Brighter Child, "Whenever the question of educating children is raised, thoughts usually turn to school and to schoolteachers. But mothers are, and have always been,their children's first and most important teacher. What mothers teach, or fail to teach, intentionally or unintentionally, profoundly influences their children's entire lives. Home is, in a practical sense, currently and traditionally, a child's first school. Here, a child's learning pattern is established; here the seed is planted, or not, for advanced education. And here each child acquiares an assortment of strengths and advantages, or handicaps and vulnerabilities, that predispose him to success or failure, to happiness or unhappiness."

Mothers deserve our support. Mothers deserve the highest consideration from society. David O. McKay, a great educator and leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, said, "The noblest calling in the world is that of mother. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can paint a masterpiece or who can a book that will influence millions deserves the plaudits and admiration of mankind; but she who rear successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose immortal souls will be exerting an influence throughout the ages long after painting shall have faded, and books and statues shall have been destroyed, deserves the highest honor that man can give."

Families get together on Mother's Day to honor mothers, grandmothers, and even favorite aunts and cousins. Mothers should be remembered and honored not only on Mother's Day but ever day of the year.