Stay-at-Home Mom Blues (an article)

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What a wonderful article!!! Although I do work as a musician, I am basically a stay-at-home-mom most of the time. I really needed to read that. I definitely have days where I feel exactly like the mommies she is speaking to.
 
mdgspencer said:
This article encourages women staying at home caring for their children who are running out of steam, as it shows that what they do is important and valuable.
www.integratedcatholiclife.org/2012/01/thomas-stay-at-home-mom-blues/
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Beautiful! All stay at home mommies* need to hear this from their husbands, because they sure aren’t going to get it from society!

*(We have to come up with a better term - other than when my sons were teeny-tiny, we didn’t just stay at home!"
 
TheRealJuliane said:
*(We have to come up with a better term - other than when my sons were teeny-tiny, we didn’t just stay at home!"
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Yeah, it’s called “mother”.

And I know people here will want to throw me into the fires of perdition for saying that.😃
 
Nec5 said:
Yeah, it’s called “mother”.

And I know people here will want to throw me into the fires of perdition for saying that.😃
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👍 You are right. Whether a mother stays home, works part-time, or works full-time, she is a mother. Why society is obsessed with the distinctions and feels the need to put each group down for one reason or another is beyond me.
 
_Jenn said:
👍 You are right. Whether a mother stays home, works part-time, or works full-time, she is a mother. Why society is obsessed with the distinctions and feels the need to put each group down for one reason or another is beyond me.
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That’s very true. I actually think that although the article was focused more for the “SAHM”, I think it’s a great pep talk for every kind of mother. I know when I was working part-time basically 7 days a week from home and taking care of a newborn two weeks after she was born, this article would have been great to read as well.
 
I’m not sure it gets easier as they get older. All I know is that being a SAHM is just as important no matter what their age. As a matter of fact, I tell women that if they can only chose one period of their child’s life to stay-at-home, then don’t work when their child is in junior high to early high school. With little ones you can send them to daycare but once the child hits 12 they are on their own. A 12-yr old home alone after school is trouble. That is when they need mom the most. Talking to them gets more important as they get older so you have to be around just in case the moment strikes.

Right now I’m in that netherworld of mid-elementary school age. My DD is 10-yrs old. She goes to school and gets off the bus at 2:30pm. I don’t work. I’ve tried, even part-time, and she goes off the deep end. Literally! Just knowing that I’m not home while she is in school sends her into a rebellion tizzy. More and more I’m trying to find ways to explore MY interests, after setting them aside for so many years, but there isn’t much going on for the 6-hrs that she is in school. There aren’t many woman like me at home anymore - not with older children.
 
TheRealJuliane said:
Beautiful! All stay at home mommies* need to hear this from their husbands, because they sure aren’t going to get it from society!

*(We have to come up with a better term - other than when my sons were teeny-tiny, we didn’t just stay at home!"
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Juliane, if you don’t mind me asking, where were you taking them?

I have a three-year-old and a one-year-old, and getting out of the house is really difficult for me! I’d like them to be exposed to something other than the inside of this house sometimes and would appreciate some suggestions.

As for the article, it pretty much got everything right, from the Cheerios on the floor to the semi-potty trained toddler.
 
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