How did mothers raise so many children, unlike now?

Mothers often hear this sentence when they complain and express their exhaustion and fatigue. One of them says to her, “I raised a large number of children and did not complain like you.” The mother feels negative energy from these words and even feels more frustrated.

Comparing our generation to the generation of our parents and grandparents, or comparing our generation as parents to the generation of our sons and daughters is unfair, as each lived in a different time, unique and distinguished in its facilities, difficulties and challenges. Each time is fundamentally different from the one before and after it.

Education components expanded

In the past, it was important to provide the basic needs of the children, such as housing, food, and education in the manner of directing orders.

Right education today is guidance, guidance, containment, love, monitoring and awareness, discussing opinions together and working to build a self-confident generation that chooses its path with its own will and convictions, not fear and oppression from those around it.

 Our children today live in a world full of abundance in all areas

Previously, the television used to show cartoons at four o'clock in the afternoon, so all the children had this sacred time, so there was no room for hesitation.

Today, electronic screens move with us wherever we go, mobile phones, iPads, computers and more, to provide games and cartoon programs in frightening abundance in front of our children, at all times and times.

The concept of safety has become more broad and loose

Previously, the mother knew that her children were safe in front of the television, as most of the cartoon programs were developing in children certain values. The danger at that time was limited to simple things, such as going out to play in the street, for example, or falling from the high roof of our house.

Today, our children are in danger, even if they are in the arms of their parents. It is enough for you to sit with your child for a quarter of an hour in front of YouTube videos, for example,
Therefore, providing safety for one or two children, even inside the safe house, is worth many times the efforts to provide safety for five and six children in the past.

Participation in education

In the past, the community was village and communal, sharing family burdens, so the burden of education was divided between grandparents, grandmothers, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles.

But in our time, society has turned into an individual society with a civil character that directs the full powers of education to the mother and father only, losing confidence in the extended family framework that was in the past.

economically

Previously, it was important to provide only the essentials

Nowadays, providing luxuries has become an essential thing, which made parents strive to provide them so that their children do not feel that what they lack is available to others.
The generation of the humble son, who was shyly aspiring for an extra shoe, has turned today into a generation that demands the latest expensive electronic devices and games, and with its availability, it continues to demand more.

This does not mean that this generation is “spoiled” as some of the older generation claim, but simply, everyone lived in a different time and faced different challenges and external factors.