For me, being a mom means being a stay at home mom.
Growing up in rural Michigan almost every mom I interacted with, including my own, was a stay at home mom. As I got older I found out that almost every stay at home mom I knew, including my own, was college educated. It didn't seem 'odd' to me to get a liberal arts education and use it in the raising of children. In fact, until I became a mom myself, I never realized that some people looked at stay at home moms with such disdain.
(**NOTE:** I think that ALL moms are equally valuable, but, the way I saw motherhood done would be impossible for me to maintain (without a full staff) if I worked outside of the home in addition to my duties at home.)
I recently had a terrible experience on a popular social networking site when one of my 'friends' said that stay at home mom's were lazy leeches and needed to get off of their butt's and do something with their lives. I was horrified. I KNOW the value of being a stay at home mom personally, but do other people?
Does not having a career outside of the home make us less valuable to society? Are we 'wasting' our expensive university degrees by staying home with our young children? It isn't like I'm reading him Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' as a bedtime story or anything.
While I certainly don't believe that I'd like to find out what all of you think.
Growing up in rural Michigan almost every mom I interacted with, including my own, was a stay at home mom. As I got older I found out that almost every stay at home mom I knew, including my own, was college educated. It didn't seem 'odd' to me to get a liberal arts education and use it in the raising of children. In fact, until I became a mom myself, I never realized that some people looked at stay at home moms with such disdain.
(**NOTE:** I think that ALL moms are equally valuable, but, the way I saw motherhood done would be impossible for me to maintain (without a full staff) if I worked outside of the home in addition to my duties at home.)
I recently had a terrible experience on a popular social networking site when one of my 'friends' said that stay at home mom's were lazy leeches and needed to get off of their butt's and do something with their lives. I was horrified. I KNOW the value of being a stay at home mom personally, but do other people?
Does not having a career outside of the home make us less valuable to society? Are we 'wasting' our expensive university degrees by staying home with our young children? It isn't like I'm reading him Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' as a bedtime story or anything.
While I certainly don't believe that I'd like to find out what all of you think.
