Social development and mothers’ role
November 16, 2025November 16 is Mother’s Day in our country.
“Mother” is the most sacred and valuable form of address in the world.
Mothers have inexhaustible strength for their children, intelligence to teach them in consideration of the laws of the world and undying love for them.
The selfless and lasting maternal love constitutes a valuable foundation for the healthy growth of their children, a nutritious element that makes families truly happy and a tonic for promoting social harmony and unity.
Therefore, people have said since ancient times that if the world is put on one dish of the balance and the maternal love on the other, the latter will be heavier than the former and come down.
Mothers are true educators and teachers of their children.
As a saying goes, “Education starts from the lap of the mother”, so does man’s first step from her bosom. Mothers’ looks reflected in the eyes of their children exert significant influence upon the formation of their characters and habits.
How they educate and bring up their children decides whether or not the latter would become good persons who devote themselves to society, the collective and the country.
There is no vacation or graduation in the education of children.
It is important for mothers to possess noble personality traits, profound knowledge and high cultural attainments for the healthy growth of their children.
As every word and deed of parents is reflected in their children like the mirror, mothers should try to make every occasion in life an excellent textbook example for them.
Mothers play a crucial role in social development.
Maternal love is not confined to one family alone.
Our rising generations are brought up as reliable pillars of the country who would shoulder its future under the principled education and tender love of mothers who help them cultivate the attitude of mind of thinking society and the collective before their families.
The mothers in the country regard it as their bounden duty to fulfil their responsibility and role as mothers they assume before their families and society.
Prof Ri Kum Ok, PhD and lecturer of Kim Il Sung University
