This study aims to explore housewife mothers’ experience for their children s education so as to shed light on the role of their motherhood in shaping child eduction. Furthermore, this paper investigates how motherhood reconstructed in the process of practicing children’s education. This study conducted a qualitative research using in-depth interviews by selecting 8 middle-class housewife mothers with children who prepares college entrance examination. The main results are summarized as follows. First, maternal thinking of middle-class housewife mothers was not different from traditional maternal characteristics in terms of relationship with their children. However, the aspect of recognizing motherhood as a mother’s role that is ‘helping their children’s education’ is somewhat different, which implies that child education is recognized as an importance role of motherhood in the modern era. Second, participants in qualitative research interviews perceived child education as a more important role of motherhood than that of housework or childcare. For these participants, the child education was considered as types of authority resources that can be recognized as value of motherhood. Third, in the process of practicing child eduction, motherhood resulted in two different ways. On the one hand, mothers conformed to institutional motherhood when their children’s education can be functioned as a resource for maternal authority. On the other hand, when the education of their children did not function as a resource for maternal authority, housewife mothers reconstructed their motherhood without following the existing beliefs of motherhood. his study confirmed that the reason motherhood of housewife mothers focuses on child education is closely related to the status of mothers in the family. In addition, it was confirmed that when mothers are recognized for their role in child education, child education can serve as a resource to strengthen maternal authority. This paper is worthwhile in that it reveals that the recognition of motherhood through child education is the recognition of the mother s role or ability as a social duty , not the recognition of her right as a mother.