Effective motherhood is not about getting it all right. Many women experience guilt because they are trying to achieve an unattainable standard of motherly perfection. It is a myth to say that the best moms are the martyr moms who sacrifice everything for their families without paying attention to their own needs. The key to mothering is mindfulness rather than omnipotence. Mothers first need to be mindful of themselves. Motherhood provides a mirror that reflects the absolute best and absolute best of a woman's character. When destructive behavior begins, mothers need to look to the patterns of their own life to see how these situations arrive so negatively. Closely connected to this is the idea that mothers need to be mindful of how they themselves were raised. We are products of our own childhood. The Bible even talks about how patterns of sin are passed down though subsequent generation unless those behaviors can be identified and transformed. We must forgive our parents of their shortcomings and recognize how those shortcomings have inhibited our parenting if we desire to change and equip our children more effectively. Also, mothers must be mindful of how wired their children. Mindful mothers accept their children for the children that they are, not the children that they wish they would or want them to be.

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