Important Life Lessons A Mother Should Teach Her Daughter

I am a mom of a girl and yes, I am blessed to have her in my life. I wish I could create a bubble shield for her to protect her from all the evils. No, I can’t, it is impossible but a mother plays a vital role in her daughter’s upbringing. There are some Important Life Lessons A Mother Should Teach Her Daughter so that she can use these teachings as shield to overcome the challenges of her life.

Daughters are our best friend, they are the blessings of our life. My daughter’s naughty smile is the reason of my happiness. And her kind heart absolutely melts my heart. Sometimes I am scared of her kindness and innocence, as the world outside home is not so easy to deal. That doesn’t mean that she will not see the world as there are so many beautiful things to experience in the world too.

Being a mother, I have some important life lessons for my daughter, hopefully she will understand and it will also help my fellow moms too. I will always try to move aside the stones from the road of my daughter so that it will be easy for her to travel. And the only way to do that it to prepare her for future.

Important Life Lessons A Mother should Teach Her Daughter

• Love Yourself Self love is not selfish, no one knows you better than you, so start loving yourself. Self- care should be your priority. Fill your cup first then only you can pour love and care for others.

• Never Compare Yourself With Others You should always focus for your betterment but never compare yourself with others. Comparing yourself with others will demotivate you and will make you less-confidant. It will degrade your self-worth. In the process of your comparing with others you overlook your own strengths and power.

• Speak Up Always be vocal, never afraid of expressing your opinions and views. Speaking for yourself is very essential for every individual specially for women as our society take them as granted for many situations without knowing their opinions. Kathy Caprino wrote one article in Forbes about Speaking Up. She had mentioned there that speaking up effectively for yourself is an essential process.

• There may be failures This is one of the most important lesson of life that every mother will teach her daughter. It is ok to fall, but you need to stand up again. Failures are the experiences you are gaining in your journey. Failures doesn’t mean that you can never reach your goal, it is just an indication to take another path to reach your goal.

• Find happiness in little things I firmly believe on this tag line. I teach my daughter to feel the happiness in all the little things that we do regular. In the wait to happen something big, we will loose all the happiness in little things. Live in the moment and enjoy all the simple things. There are many reasons to be happy that we overlook in the rush to achieve from one thing to other.

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• Learn to say no It is difficult to say No to someone where you fear that your no will affect your relationship or simply you don’t want to disappoint or hurt that someone. But you should be very honest with your response. This was very challenging for me in my life to say No, sometimes after saying yes unwillingly I felt over burden on myself. We should understand the fact that saying no doesn’t mean selfish or being rude. It is only the boundary that we set for ourselves. It is not possible to say yes to everything to everyone. Learn to say no and feel empowered and free.

• Embrace your mistakes Mistakes, failures will be there in the journey of your success. Take your mistakes positively. I have seen in my life that success doesn’t come so easily. Embracing your mistakes is one of the important life lessons for a daughter, that a mother will want her to teach. Doing mistakes is the process of achieving something. No mother will love to see her children failing but we need to make them understand that they should accept their fall and learn from them.

• Be independent In this era of competitions, it is very necessary for a mother to teach her daughter to be independent, not to be depend on someone. They should be financially and physically independent but they should also aware of the fact that during difficult times they should not hesitate to share their problems with family.

• Don’t do unhealthy compromises Compromise is not wrong but to an extent it is acceptable. We always tell our daughters to compromise. But it is very dangerous when compromise go beyond a limit and it is over-compromise. And a mother should make her daughter aware of unhealthy compromises and should strictly avoid it.

• Choose your companion wisely I know I can’t take my daughter’s decision every time. She should have the freedom to choose or take her own decisions in life. So being a mother I should teach her, how her decisions can affect her life. The people around you can make your life heaven at same time hell too that depends upon your choice of people. So always choose your companions with whom you spend most of your time wisely. Try to keep yourself away from toxic people.

• Know your worth Teach your daughter to value themselves. She knows her worth and nobody can decide that. Her value doesn’t depend on other’s actions or reactions. She should not give right to anybody to set limits for her.

Note For Mother

No need to say to love your daughter, as you can’t live without doing that. Daughters are the best thing that we have in our life. Cultivate a healthy and strong relationship with them. Your daughter needs to know that her mom is always there for her and she won’t be judged by her. Tell her all the wonderful things, praise her that she is the most beautiful human being so that she will be raised as a strong person.

You can use mother daughter journal so that you can spend time with your daughter and it will help you to know each other

The book “What I Told My Daughter” will inspire you to raise empowered women. Highly accomplished group of women had shared their advice and teachings they gave their daughters throughout their life. A must read book for a mother to connect with her daughter.

Note For Daughter

You are the treasure of my life. You are you, no one can be compared with you. Live your life to fullest, chase your dreams. Whatever be the situation, believe in yourself and keep moving forward. And whenever you feel tired or in need, I am always there for you. I can’t make your life a bed of roses, as good times and bad times are in equal parts in a life. But I am sure you are strong enough to handle both the phases of your life.