You don’t need to have a good relationship with your own mother to be a good parent - God can help you

Author Gemma E Asafo-Adjei explains that a woman doesn’t need a mother of her own to be an amazing parent.

The relationship I had with my mother was a good one. At first I was more of a daddy’s girl. It wasn’t really until I was in my mid 20s that the relationship between me and my mother became closer. I recall the only time we actually talked about me becoming a mother was once I got married. I always had a love for children; caring for them, teaching them, and my mother would always say things like: “You would make a good mother one day.” But really, what does this mean? 

Before becoming a mother, I often asked myself questions like: “Will I be any good?”, “Will I make the right decisions?” or “How will I learn to be a mother?” These are also some of the concerns I hear now, when talking with pregnant women, or those longing to become mothers. So, who do we look to when thinking about motherhood? Do we look at celebrities and the lives they create as mothers? Do we look at our friends who have had children before us? What about our own parents; looking at how we were raised and the impact our mothers had on us? Or how about our relationships with our own maternal side?