Being a Stay at Home Mom and Feeling Good about it.
In this day and time when someone asks me "What do you do for a
living?" or asks you "Where do you work?" My answer was always I
stay at home with my kids. I would always think badly of myself
just by the responses that I would get. Or the dreaded oh. I
always felt ashamed of being a stay at home mom. I felt that
others thought of me as a lazy person and lazy I was not. That
feeling stayed with me for a long time. Then I started thinking
about if I was working outside of the home look at all the
things in my children's lives that I would have missed. Someone
else would have got to share these things with my children. I
thought there is no way that I would want some else to share
anything special such as their first words, steps, or to see
their first tooth coming through. I wanted to be the one to see
all these special things in my children's lives. I decided that
staying at home with my children was the right step for me and
my children. If someone didn't like it well that was not their
chose for me to stay at home or to go to work. I can never
replace my child's first words, first crawl across the floor, or
their first steps. Once they do that milestone it's gone
forever. It becomes just a memory, and it can only be a memory
if you get to see that first. There are so many more things that
moms would miss out on with their children if they chose to work
outside their home. It's all these things that inspire me to
stay at home with my children. No job could pay me any amount of
money to equal how it makes me feel inside seeing each one of my
children reaching each and every milestone as they are growing
up. A job can be replaced but being a mother can not once you
choose to work outside the home and you do miss out on something
special it can never be replaced with that child. Most mom's
that work outside the home are not promised that their job will
be there waiting on them from day to day. Being a child's mother
is a job that will never be taken away.
It will always be there no matter what. I never want to feel
regret for staying home with my children and I will never let
any one else make me feel bad for staying home with my kids.
It's your life and weather you decide to stay home or work
outside the home it is your decision and no one else can make it
for you but you. . No one should make a stay at home parent feel
bad for choosing to stay at home and be with their kids, nor
should anyone make a parent working outside the home feel bad
either. I feel that each parent's has the right to do as they
choose with their own life. When someone asks me now "What do
you do for a living?" I proudly hold my head up high and say I
am a Work at Home mom and I love it. I still get the occasional
oh, but its okay, I am happy with what I am doing and that is
all that matters.