P.S. Motivate a Mom

From a young age, we are evaluated.  Parents give overwhelming words of approval to young children as they make their first attempt of peeing in the toilet.  A child's work of art is hung on the fridge. In Kindergarten every effort is given a sticker. As you move forward there are grades, scholarships, pay raises, bonuses, and on and on.
Then you choose to give up the career to be at home with your children for a period of time.  Being a mother is the most difficult thing one can do. If you missed the commercial from Mother's Day 2014 check it out at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB3xM93rXbY, and this is just the beginning.  No pay.  No vacations. A long term commitment, like forever!  It requires your every waking moment (and much of your sleeping as well).  Yet despite the fact that you give it your all, everyday, there is no feedback.  There is only the child who complains about not getting to watch TV, whining to eat treats 15 times a day or pitching a fit because she doesn't need sleep.  So a mom works a long day of cooking, cleaning, cleaning poop.  At the end of these long days the mom wonders if the decisions she made today were the right ones.  Should she be more strict?  Should she have held them more?  Should she have made the meals more balanced?  Should they have been surrounded with friends?  Should she answer their every request or pull back?
There is no rubric, no evaluation process. 
For this reason, women look to other women.  What COULD I be doing with my kids? When SHOULD I train her to dress herself?  How SHOULD I punish her when she talks back?
The problem with this comparative evaluation, is though the job title "mother" remains the same across the world, the job description changes from child to child.  No child is the same so no mother should look the same either.
As for evaluations, I guess moms' will have to wait.  Like any good investment, only time will tell.