Mom vs. Dad

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. -- James Joyce

Moms are the epitome of unconditional love. I see it with my own wife and her daughter. I truly believe that she feels her daughters physical pain and would take it upon herself in a flash if she could. Pulling the daughters wisdom teeth was pretty much the equivalent of the dentist pulling four of her own teeth. Plus possibly a hard kick to the ribs thrown in with it.

Moms appear to weigh in at just the right time to answer a question or offer suggestions. Me, being a man, seem to quit listening way to soon. Trying to formulate an answer to a question that I thought might be coming, but might never end up being asked. Then I get confused and anxious. Worthless to a child for any concrete wisdom. Most of the time it ends up that a daughter just wants to be heard, to know that someone is sharing her hardship by listening. Moms know this deep down in their souls. They don't even have to practice it, they're naturals. 

Men on the other hand (Dads for example), can be great mentors on how to do things as long as it involves the kids mostly watching demonstrations and learning. I don't believe those of us that were not trained at the university level should be allowed to teach some subjects, even to their own kids. We are way better at playing catch with a baseball or riding next to them on a bike than the skill of talking about things. We should lead good lives and try as we might to do the right things and hope the small ones are watching us men and learning by example. And also keep telling them to "Ask their Mother" for the final answer. Moms, you are the checks and balances of our children.

And we need to definitely listen to our wives, and wives need to not give up on us men. I truly believe it is through a woman's love, and it starts with a mother's love, that men mentally leave their boyhood behind to become a man. And the same mothers love shapes the daughters into the soul of humankind which we men seem incapable of properly understanding.

How else can wars be explained?