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Spare a thought for
mums
JACK METTA pays
tribute to mothers on Mother’s Day
OKAY guys, it’s that special time of
the year that you really have to swallow humble pie and take it on
the chin.
For too long when the occasion crops up, fathers are still asking
‘when’s Mother’s Day?”
And the answer that comes back sometimes has been “the day after
father’s night”.
Okay, so you’ve had your fun all this time and not once did you
ever really consider the feeling of that one person you decided to
share you lifetime with.
It’s Mother’s Day this weekend, perhaps a good time for reflection
and a good look at what you can do for your partner rather than
what your partner can do for you.
She may have been doing it for you all this time without you ever
returning the favour in kind.
People have been talking about attitude changes in order for PNG
to change for the better and this is as good a time as any to heed
that sound advice.
As we go to the polls, it is also a time of reckoning – your vote
perhaps hold the key to these changes.
No man in his sane mind would not acknowledge the love and care
that a mother showered on him when he first started existing.
Many continue to exist without acknowledging that love and care
and fail to do just that in their routine and mundane life.
Mothers epitomise the spirit of love for through it, they’ve
struggled through thick and thin to bring you up to where you are
now.
Perhaps, it is time to put that spirit into action in the National
Parliament – let that love and care come to the fore for Papua New
Guinea children.
Go back to your early childhood and re-run the memory tape from
there and you’d be surprised, how much you owe to the woman who
are closest in you life.
And speaking of childhood, have you ever wondered how Grade 2
school children react to questions about mothers?
Here’s a few. Enjoy!
Why did God make mothers?
1. She’s the only one who knows where the sticky tape is.
2. Mostly to clean the house.
3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.
How did God make mothers?
1. He used dirt, just
like for the rest of us.
2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.
3. God made my mum just the same like he made me. He just used
bigger parts.
What ingredients are mothers made of?
1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything
nice in the world and one dab of mean.
2. They had to get a start from men’s bones. Then they mostly use
string, I think.
Why did God give you your mother and not some other mum?
1. We’re related.
2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people’s mums like
me.
What kind of little girl was your mum?
1. My mum has always been my mum and none of that other stuff.
2. I don’t know because I wasn’t there, but my guess would be
pretty bossy.
3. They say she used to be nice.
What did mum need to know about dad before she married him?
1. His last name.
2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he get
drunk on beer?
3. Does he make at least K800 a fortnight? Did he say NO to drugs
and YES to chores?
Why did your mum marry your dad?
1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my mum eats a
lot.
2. She got too old to do anything else with him.
3. My grandma says that mum didn’t have her thinking cap on.
Who’s the boss at your house?
1. Mum doesn’t want to be boss, but she has to because dad’s such
a bighead.
2. Mum. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under
the bed.
3. I guess mum is, but only because she has a lot more to do than
dad.
What’s the difference between mums and dads?
1. Mums work at work and work at home and dads just go to work at
work.
2. Mums know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.
3. Dads are taller and stronger, but mums have all the real power
’cause that’s who you got to ask if you want to sleep over at your
friend’s.
4. Mums have magic, they make you feel better without medicine.
What does your mum do in her spare time?
1. Mothers don’t do spare time.
2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.
What would it take to make your mum perfect?
1. On the inside she’s already perfect. Outside, I think some kind
of plastic surgery.
2. ‘Diet’. You know, her hair. I’d ‘diet’, maybe blue.
If you could change one thing about your mum, what would it be?
1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I’d
get rid of that.
2. I’d make my mum smarter. Then she would know it was my sister
who did it and not me.
3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on the
back of her head.
Perhaps, there is much more the the kids’ answers that meets the
eyes.
But one thing is certain though, mothers are very delicate and
sensitive people.
And that perhaps, is the key to why we all have or had mothers.
Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers out there from us fathers
and the males of our species, who should, at this same time,
acknowledge the Wise Counsellor’s words: “Life is very hard for a
woman as it principally means dealing with men ...” and cut you
all a better deal in life.
 
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