You need a mother to teach you how to live. A. Most animals are born with instincts about how to live. Bees and ants come right out of the egg and start working. Baby crocodiles head for the river and start looking for tasty fish to eat. Snakes know how to slither.
Colts know how to run, as soon as they get strong enough for it.
B. Not so humans. We need to be taught most everything. We especially need to be taught how to live in a mental, social and spiritual way. We need to listen and learn from our mothers. In Proverbs 31, King Lemuel, and Solomon, recorded the chapter about the virtuous woman.