The Importance Of Stay At Home Mom

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People love to indulge in the humor of what they think a stay at home mom is. Either it is a never ending job where mothers are running around, like a chicken without a head, or it is a vacation life, where someone chills out in their sweatpants all day. Instagram is filled with both humorous and heart warming quotes on what being a mom is like, and anyone who has a child can relate to them. There is one thing, nonetheless, that separates mothers all over the world. Are they a stay at home mom or a working one? Stay at home moms will argue that their lives are tougher, because they’ don 't get to take a break while working moms will argue that their lives are tougher ,because they need to juggle two jobs, caring for their children and working outside the home. I have been a stay at home mom for seven years and I can easily tell you that I am not sitting at home in my sweatpants all day with a bows of Cheetos, watching grey’s anatomy on lifetime. Having said that, would my life be easier if I was out of the house all day, working another job? A few years ago I was faced with this question, in a way that I will never forget. I gave birth to my oldest daughter, Yvette, at the very young age of twenty. I don 't think anyone really …show more content…

As she was going on and on about her new job, she said something that made my head turn. “ Going to work is so much better for your children. Being home with them is unhealthy and makes them super attached.” It took me a minute to process what she had just said, but when I did, I felt like someone had just hit me over the head with a brick. I’ve been home with my children every moment of every day, and was she telling me that that was “unhealthy”? All the time I 've spent, all the effort I put into tending to their every need, was I was doing it all

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