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I'm a mother, I've created life. We become equal parts powerful and powerless-- channeling strengths we didn't know existed and surrendering.
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I came to IBM five years ago with a 3-year old and 1-year old at home and have since added another little love to the mix. My husband has a wonderful job that we all love and support, but it requires him to travel 9 months out of the year. To say that coming back to a full time role five years ago with a husband that is gone so much was frightening is an understatement. I was worried about my work life balance and how I would separate the two.

I worried a lot, but the longing for my career growth and the need for me to work outweighed my worries. My career has grown, but in return my kids have thrived. I owe that to IBM. I am able to manage a really hectic and fun family of 5 and all the extra activities involved in that thanks to the flexibility, benefits, and work life balance commitment from IBM.

IBM has figured out how to provide their employees the challenges to continue growing within their roles, yet also allowing flexibility for their employees to not have to choose a family OR a career. During my employment at IBM, I have never felt like a working mother but instead have always felt like an empowered woman. There is a common understanding that family comes first and that we all work better when our home life is balanced and calm.

IBM has shown me that I do not have to choose between a career and my family and I am grateful for the opportunities they continue to provide. Six years ago, life circumstances led me to getting permanent custody of our special needs grandchild, Brody. It took me a few months to realize that his fixed gaze stares and his sleeping for hours after these episodes were actually seizures, and after each one, he would go into postictal state where he would literally drop down into sleep in an altered state of consciousness.

By the time we found a neurologist that could assess him, he was having seizures a day. The seizure medications they provided caused full body muscle spasms, racking him with unimaginable pain, and had to be discontinued. The fact that he could not speak, nor establish eye contact to engage with anyone, and had multiple meltdowns daily, was just as intimidating and disheartening.

I was referred to another neurologist, three therapists occupational, behavioral, and speech , and a family counselor. My virtual nurses, Kathy and Mike, were compassionate, and wellsprings of knowledge. They told me how to expedite putting him in an Individualized Education Program IEP , suggested facilities close to our home that worked with children on the spectrum, and how to network and establish a supportive and thriving community. Every three years, we meet with the Custodial Board. While pregnant with my daughter, Caroline, I was put on hospital bed rest at 28 weeks.

Dijkstra asked for more stories. Tan wrote another for the workshop and sent it to her.

...Divorced, Beheaded, Survived – by Robin Black

At Ms. Dijkstra's request, Ms. Tan wrote a proposal for a book based on the stories, then took off on a trip to China with her mother. The journey started as a gift to her mother, who had recovered from a serious illness, but it also turned out to be a step into her cultural past. Tan said. It was a sense of completeness, like having a mother and a father.

I had China and America, and everything was all coming together finally.

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She immediately gave up her freelance work and wrote full time in her basement, finishing the book in four months. Troubles With Mother. Tan said she set out to write the stories for her mother to explain all the disagreements and turbulent moments of their lives together.

And I wanted those words to almost fall off the page so that she could just see the story, that the language would be simple enough, almost like a little curtain that would fall away. Tan's relationship with her mother had deteriorated after the deaths of her father, an electrical engineer and Baptist minister, and her brother, both of whom died of brain tumors when she was Her mother took her and a younger brother away from the ''diseased'' house to Europe and eventually settled in Montreux, Switzerland.

Tan crammed as many courses as she could into a year and graduated early from high school there. Tan enrolled in Linfield College, a Baptist school in Oregon, one of two her mother had picked out for her.

Here are the rest of the stories from readers some submissions have been lightly edited for clarity :. Some background, my parents are immigrants from South Korea. They came here with little more than the clothes on their backs and have raised my brother and I the best way they know how with the little that they had, and that includes time.

My parents had their own business and never had enough time for us. That is all in the past, and while I appreciate what they did before, they are even more giving now. Eight years ago I was born and raised in America and am an American in every way, but went and married a Korean man. Through it all, my mother has stood by me and helped us in our struggle to survive, both as a couple and as parents in America. When we came to the states, my husband did not speak English.

He was unsure of himself and was not able to find a job. My parents provided a roof for us.

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We only had one car, my parents gave us one of their spare cars. I don't know how to cook Korean food, so my mother slaved over a stove, after she came home from her work, to give him a traditional Korean meal every night. When we felt that we were able to move out on our own, my parents gave us a loan to buy a home. They gave us one of their vehicles to take with us to our new home. When I went back to work after my second child was born, my mother closed her business and took care of my children so that I could work full-time.

To this day, she still watches my children and takes my daughter to and from school. We have purchased a larger home and my parents are still supporting us through this endeavor with their tips and tricks of being homeowners. My mother has no boundaries to the love she gives my family and even though we no longer live with her, she still sends home food for my husband so that he doesn't miss Korea so much. I remember as a young child, times were financially hard in our family.

Mom would sometimes have to borrow my allowance money to make ends meet at the end of the week. Still once a month, she would buy some steaks and would grill them up for Dad and I she knew I loved steak , and would end up giving me half of hers because I would want more. I was too young to completely understand what she was doing. But, as I became "married with children," I came to understand the sacrifices parents make for their kids.

I just opened my morning newspaper to your article [The Des Moines Register recently published a piece asking for reader recollections for Mother's Day ] I read after the piece [about the] SEP Vigil on students addressing bullying. Going to school there in the late 60's and early 70's, I, myself, was a victim of bullying. But in those times, that [was] not what it was called. I was born with a speech impediment.

Born with a cleft palette that impaired my speech dramatically. Yes, I was made fun of many many times. But I do attribute my strength and courage to my mother. She knew I had to be prepared for my adult life. She encouraged me to step forward and always speak for myself, make my own doctor appointments, hair appointments and step forward in public places.

She gave me such self worth and encouraged me to pursue my dreams. My dream of dance. I now have been in the dance business for 43 years. I own a dance studio for children and owe a lot of this success to my mother.

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Your tender article brought tears to my eyes. Seeing your mother as mine, trying to do the best for their daughters.

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With all these issues on bullying, sometimes I think parents and families need to step in early and focus on their children's self worth. It starts in the home. To build confidence and integrity.