The Diamond Standard Kathleen Gordon Mothers are more precious than jewels, and as gorgeous as dazzling diamonds. Diamonds form from carbon that is placed under extreme pressure, and high temperatures, over eons. But moms endure their own kinds of natural, kid-produced heat and pressure over their lifetimes. Diamonds are formed 75-120 miles below the surface of the earth, within molten rock. Their formation requires 14,000 degrees centigrade, and pressures over 70,000 times as strong as those on the earth's surface.
Diamonds are the hardest naturally formed substance known to man.
Compared to any other natural element on earth, they are essentially indestructible. How about instigating a fiasco at school and blaming it on an innocent son or daughter. Then again, you could scold a youngster in front of his or her mom. In addition to her rock-hard dedication, let's compare the economic value of her family vocation with the value of diamonds. It is said that a mother's work is never done.