What a Mother!

In one interview with David Letterman, Barrack Obama said that when he lived in Indonesia for six year, his mother will wake him up at 5 am and teach him for one day curriculum lesson. She did that because she's worried of the Indonesia's education quality (which she is correct one hundred percent).

Barrack Obama said that at that time, when he was 6 years old, he will feel extremely upset to his mother. He hated it when he should started learning from 5 am then after that still have to go to school. But now, after he's being so successful, studied in Harvard, being the most powerful man in the world, he understand how valuable the time that her mother spent to teach him.

Being a good mother have a lot of dimensions. That means you have to 'be there' for your children when they grow up. Means you have provide them with security, with love, all of the loves in the world. But one important thing that I learned when I watch the interview, is that being a good mother means you give the best education to your children. Some children can be success of course, even without a mother who try real hard to teach them. But imagine, if a child has that golden opportunity, to have a mother who believes in education.

You know, if I'm that lucky to be a mother someday, I hope I can do the same thing. Teach my children how important the education is. That in this world, with its fierce and cruel competition to survive, education is one extremely useful weapon that you must have. And one day, they will say, yes my mother worked very hard to make sure that I'm being a well educated person.