Single mothers have one of the hardest jobs in the world. hey have to be their children's mother AND father. And while many love to apportion blame for the messed up society we live in on the fact that most single mothers dote on their sons, I prefer to ask the men why they took off rather than buckle down and raise their children.

And while the fact is that ALL single mothers struggle to raise their children, it is alot harder for women who have to fend for themselves and their own. If you're a single mother who depends on her parents to help you raise your child(ren) then this is a motivational piece.

But if like the women I am about to highlight, you are a single woman with a career or job or hustle, then this is a celebration of you and those of your ilk.

I want to talk about the one struggle I personally know every single mother has had to deal with: having to work and not finding someone to mind the child(ren) on time. So you really have no choice but to take the kids to work with you.

That seems to be the predicament Jacque Maribe and the late Kababeri's widow Njesh found themselves in and they held it down so effortlessly, they made it look so easy: