I thought I would share a portion of President Theodore Roosevelt's speech "On American Motherhood." It was given in Washington on March 13, 1905 before the National Congress of Mothers. I found it to be very encouraging and insightful. Read his words and ruminate upon them.
"No piled-up wealth, no splendor of material growth, no brilliance of artistic development, will permanently avail any people unless its home life is healthy. . .unless the average woman is a good wife, a good mother, able and willing to perform the first and greatest duty of womanhood, able and willing to bear, and to bring up as they should be brought up, healthy children, sound in body, mind, and character, and numerous enough so that the race shall increase and not decrease. There are certain old truths which will be true as long as this world endures, and which no amount of progress can alter. One of these is the truth that the primary duty of the husband is to be the home-maker, the breadwinner for his wife and children, and that the primary duty of the woman is to be the helpmate, the housewife, and mother. . .Into the woman's keeping is committed the destiny of the generations to come after us. . .The woman's task is not easy- no task worth doing is easy- but in doing it, and when she has done it, there shall come to her the highest and holiest joy known to mankind; and having done it, she shall have the reward prophesied in Scripture; for her husband and her children, yes, and all people who realize that her work lies at the foundation of all national happiness and greatness shall rise up and call her blessed."
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