My mom has always had this innate sense of care and concern for me and my siblings…often showing it in the most unconventional of ways. There are times that she seems angry, but in reality, it is her way of expressing her concern. Like in the popular Filipino narrative, albeit exaggerated, where the kid climbs a tree only to be scolded by the mother who is afraid that her child might slip and fall.
“Juuaaaan! Bumaba ka nga diyan! ’Pag nahulog ka diyan, malilintikan ka sa ‘kin!”
FilipinaImages. com has summed up how it is really like to be a Filipina mother.
1. Very loving but strict.
We like to pamper and fuss over our children. But this doesn’t mean we spoil them. We let them express themselves yet we rein them in when they go beyond the boundaries of respect and decency.2. Self-sacrificing.
We put our children’s needs before our own. We don’t look on it as a sacrifice, merely a matter of course.
Read traits three to five at FilipinaIMages.com.
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