Telling all women they shouldn't be stay at home moms or they can't afford it is just an opinion and it's not necessarily what's best for the kids.
I'm guessing if you had a choice you wouldn't be stay at home moms?
With all the guilt that I feel going to work all odd hours and
not being the stay at home mom that I expected to be, this warmed my heart that my child already has memories of dinners shared with the family where we all sit down together.
Not exact matches
My husband and I together decided I would become a
stay -
at -
home mom, and it
's a decision I don't regret.
Not only in the States, where maternity leave expectations
are so abysmal (the average American female gets 6 - 12 weeks), it
's created a ridiculous chasm between working
moms and
stay -
at -
home moms.
That
's not where the young people
are anyway; you
're talking about fucking
stay -
at -
home moms watching that shit.
On The Lily News, former TV producer and
stay -
at -
home mom Darlena Cunha explains why she won't
be leaving her
home in Gainesville.
Being a
stay at home mom does
not necessarily mean that you can
not engage in any money making activity.
While I
'm not saying you need to quit
being a
stay -
at -
home mom, you may want to think about how badly you want to get out of your current situation.
Leaving aside the manifold ways in which
stay -
at -
home moms are utterly crucial to their families (some of which — to
be sure — can
be replaced, however imperfectly, with paid labor of one sort or another), there
is this: could the many institutions of our civil society continue to function without the tireless efforts of women who don't regularly participate in the working world?
And the answer
is that he does
not primarily use presidents, senators, investment bankers, and movie stars, but WalMart checkers,
stay -
at -
home moms, construction workers, mail carriers, farmers, and McDonald's hamburger flippers.
There
is no category for those who aren't
stay -
at -
home blogger
moms.
but the WHOKLE of Bible showsotherwise (BOT man and woman made in image of God) in gensis Proverbs 31
is of a woman who works for her pay (
NOT a
stay at home mom) Paul refers to WOMEN as
being his fellow workers!
I
am close friends with a
stay at home mom in TN, and we text each other with comments and anecdotes about us and
not just our kids.
I don't relate well to lots of those
moms... so I guess my front - loaded question really
is, how do you integrate into or even participate in the community of
stay -
at -
home parents?
About: «It doesn't matter if you
're a
stay -
at -
home mom or someone with so many security clearances you couldn't tell us what you do for a living even if you wanted to.
I don't want to learn how to cook or decide between
being a
stay -
at -
home mom or a working mother.
Stay at homes are not «full - time
moms» any more than women who work outside the
home — as if breadwinning fathers
were «part - time dads.»
This month I
was introduced to Sweet and Savory Tooth, written by Heather — a
stay -
at -
home mom and avid cookbook collector (
not to mention Disney fanatic).
I
am a
stay -
at -
home mom but a constrained view of dinner time perfection
is something that I
'm just
not interested in.
I don't think it matters if you
're a
stay -
at -
home mom, working
mom or a
mom that works part time from
home.
Personally, I don't think that
stay at home moms (or anyone else, for that matter) should
be shoveling when the thermometer's broken and the 2 or 3 that ought to
be in front of the 5
is missing.
Being a
stay -
at -
home mom when it isn't the best fit can
be really tough.
I
am a born and raised Jersey girl (I don't know Snooki or the Real Housewives or anyone like them, never watched The Sopranos, love Bon Jovi, and yes, I used to have big hair), a former Chemical Engineer turned
stay -
at -
home -
mom to two adorable little boys, and a wannabe pastry chef with a wheat allergy and
not enough willpower to to spend my days surrounded by flour, sugar, butter and chocolate.
For someone who works full time and doesn't get
home until dinner time, or even for the
stay -
at -
home mom who
's day
is consumed with running around after kids, shuttling them to and from school and sports, a slow cooker
is a saving grace.
ShareI
am at the junction of tip - toeing back into the workforce after an absence of 2.5 years and though I look forward to actually finishing a cup of tea (and one that has not been reheated for the 20th time), I do feel pretty passionate about my role as a SAHM (Stay At Home Mom
at the junction of tip - toeing back into the workforce after an absence of 2.5 years and though I look forward to actually finishing a cup of tea (and one that has
not been reheated for the 20th time), I do feel pretty passionate about my role as a SAHM (
Stay At Home Mom
At Home Mom).
As a former
stay at home mom now working
mom (
not by choice), I have to say it
is harder to work and parent, but
not because of the scheduling and working «two jobs» but because of
not being able to
be where you heart really
is.
In fact most of these
stay at home moms hinder their husbands careers by constant complaining that he
is gone too much, doesn't make enough money, etc..
I don't think you
are at all complaining about
being a
stay at home mom.
I also know many
stay -
at -
home moms who formula fed and left the workplace to
stay with their children - so the «cons» against breastfeeding
are «cons about having children» but
not cons against breastfeeding.
Some say that
being a
stay -
at -
home mom can sometimes
be the most stressful job of all, but with the continued advancement of technology, particularly with the evolution of the telephone it doesn't have to
be.
That «sting»
at the suggestion that their
stay -
at -
home husbands
are «like the
mom,» stems from their guilt
at not being home with their children.
They don't seem to remember that while I
am a
stay -
at -
home mom, I
'm also a single
mom on a ridiculously tight budget, and I just don't trust anyone well enough to do an informal milk - share.
So they can't completely afford to
be full - time
stay -
at -
home moms, but they also can't afford to get a job outside the
home.
But let's
not shoot the messenger (or resort to physical violence: on NYT blogger Lisa Belkin's analysis of the piece, commenter «Ross» wrote: «If I ever meet that Robinson dude I
'm going to spend my 30 hours of leisure time as a
stay -
at -
home mom punching him dead in the face.»
Since I
'm a
stay at home mom and within walking distance of our school, I often have the option to pop in
at party time and deliver a cupcake, So Delicious fudgesicle, Hansen's Natural Rootbeer and safe ice cream, gluten free pizza, etc... If I can't
be there then we have the the safe treats tub for the kids to pull goodies out of.
And, granted, I
'm only seeing (or choosing to see) the good aspects of their experience (or what I perceive to
be the good aspects of their experience), and it may well
be the case that she
is looking
at my
stay -
at -
home mom experience wistfully, but damnit it
's hard
not to get jealous from time to time.
Go on all you want about how
stay -
at -
home moms don't have to have bad wardrobes, but the truth of the matter
is that no
stay -
at -
home parent's wardrobe
is going to improve once they start spending 80 - 95 % of their waking hours in the company of their children.
A
stay at home moms work can't
be seen.
The value of a
stay at home mom must
not be graded on the cleanliness of her
home, it shall
be valued for their selfless investment in their children.
To
be part of the breastfeeding infantry, it doesn't matter if you
're planning to work full - time or
be a
stay -
at -
home -
mom, if you
're gay or straight, if you
're a card - carrying left - wing feminist or a Mormon with a penchant for traditional values.
Since she
is my first child and I
am a
stay -
at -
home mom, I have no reason to
be up before 7:00 a.m. and consider the 6:00 hour an unacceptable waking time — but I don't know how to convince my daughter of this.
Oh and because I can't let it slide, until recently I worked full - time, now I
am a SAHM
mom — to the person who said it
's difficult «especially» for us moms who work full time, just so you know — IT»S HARDER FOR STAY AT HOME MOMS!!!!!!! I know this n
's difficult «especially» for us
moms who work full time, just so you know — IT»S HARDER FOR STAY AT HOME MOMS!!!!!!! I know this
moms who work full time, just so you know — IT»S HARDER FOR
STAY AT HOME MOMS!!!!!!! I know this
MOMS!!!!!!! I know this now
Today's
stay -
at -
home mom is not your Leave it to Beaver image of a woman who
stays home vacuuming the carpets in her long dresses and pearls while waiting on her children to come
home from school.
«
Stay At Home»
mom isn't quite the right name.
The modern - day
stay -
at -
home mom is continually evolving and can't
be limited by a dictionary - type definition or a society stereotype.
The modern - day definition of a
stay -
at -
home mom is someone who may or may
not have left the workforce to
stay home and raise her children.
I
am currently
not working but
am a
stay at home mom.
As a
stay -
at -
home mom, you may write off the idea of a life insurance policy for yourself because you
're not the one bringing
home the bacon, so - to - speak.
Flash forward to 2017 when I read a Gallup poll that concluded that
stay -
at -
home moms were reporting higher rates of depression and many did
not rank their lives as, «thriving.»