Proverbs 1:8

My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother; ...
Proverbs 1:8, Modern English Version (MEV)
 
The following is from Whedon’s Commentary on the Bible. The English verbiage is a little old and stilted according to our modern usage, but I think you can get the gist of what he is saying. Of particular note is what he has to say about the mother.
 
“Having thus stated in a beautiful and comprehensive aphorism the relation of true piety or religious principle to worthy intellectual attainments, illustrated by its opposite, and thus commenced his discourse or lecture by the recognition of God and his claims upon us, Solomon now proceeds to address his pupil in the second person singular, as if he were standing before him.
 
“My son He personates a father, and addresses every reader as a son in affection. The formula occurs frequently in the first nine chapters, and is supposed by some to indicate the beginning of a new section. But this is not certain. Among the Hebrews, teachers were rightly regarded as in the place or stead of a father, and hence were called אבות , ( abhoth,) fathers, and their pupils בנים , ( banim,) sons, or children. Parents are the natural instructors of their children. Where they cannot instruct them themselves, they employ teachers as substitutes. Hence the maxim that the teacher is in loco parentis, in the place of the parent.
 
“Hear Attend to and observe.
The instruction Musar, discipline, restraint, training, of thy father.
And forsake not Cast not off nor reject.
 
“Law of thy mother Law in the sense of precepts, teachings, directions. This strong term, תורה , ( torah,) law, may be here used to strengthen maternal authority; and the term mother may be suggested as the natural expansion of the idea, by the law of poetic parallelism. It has been justly observed that heathen moralists and legislators have magnified the authority of the father, giving him sometimes absolute power, but have made little of the mother. The divine morality teaches us to honour both father and mother. Nor is it without reason that the royal instructor begins just here his practical ethics, for this is the beginning-point and foundation of private and public virtue. Reverence for parents is, in the Scriptures, put next to reverence for God. The first commandment of the second table is, “Honour thy father and thy mother,” etc. Exodus 20:12.”