{"id":1383,"date":"2009-05-19T06:53:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T14:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homewiththekids.com\/blog\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2009-05-19T06:53:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T14:53:57","slug":"should-mom-stay-home-with-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homewiththekids.com\/blog\/should-mom-stay-home-with-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Should a Mom Always Stay Home with the Kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m pretty obviously a fan of stay at home moms. Wouldn’t run this site if I weren’t. It’s an important job and one I wouldn’t trade without a lot of pain. But I’m also not as insistent as some that moms should stay at home with their kids.<\/p>\n

It’s a very personal choice to me.<\/p>\n

Now if you change that to should a parent stay home with the kids while they’re young, you’ll get stronger agreement from me. I do think that when possible one parent or the other should be at home. But it doesn’t really matter to me which, so long as the one who can best care for the kids is the one doing it.<\/p>\n

Yeah, most often that’s going to be the mom. But two of my sisters have their husbands as the at home parent, even when the kids were babies and breastfed. It took some extra work for them to pump enough milk for their babies, but they both did pretty well at it.<\/p>\n

Now, take a book such as Dr. Laura’s In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms<\/a>\"\" and I can see good and bad to it.<\/p>\n

Yes, many stay at home moms do need support. There are many people who make it a harder choice than it should be. Even now I sometimes get asked about when I’m going back to work… despite earning a reasonable amount at home. Still haven’t reached my goals that I discussed back at New Year’s, but I’m always working towards it. I’ll get my income up higher on a regular basis yet!<\/p>\n

I’m not exactly a Dr. Laura fan. She has some good points, but then loses me entirely other times, such as the time she scolded a mother for working 4 hours a week outside the home. That’s rather extreme. As I recall, the mom taught an exercise class of some sort. Not exactly the kind of thing that will traumatize a child.<\/p>\n

Stuff like that is why I don’t listen to her show much. I prefer to relax when I listen to the radio.<\/p>\n

I don’t consider working moms to be neglectful of their families. I’d better not – my own mother worked outside the home. Admittedly that was in part because my parents divorced when I was very young, but still she showed me that a mother can work outside the home and care very well for her family.<\/p>\n

We were admittedly fortunate in our daycare and remained with one provider until my sisters and I were old enough to be home on our own. She was pretty nearly a second mom.<\/p>\n

I know most daycare experiences aren’t like that. My mom was the only one of her friends who didn’t have to regularly change providers because their person quit.<\/p>\n

With that kind of background I suppose that it’s no wonder that I support working and at home moms. It’s a tough world out there even when the economy is good.<\/p>\n

In my opinion, stay at home moms should be praised. Working moms should be praised. Dads should be praised. Any parent who is doing his or her best to provide and care for their family deserves praise. No matter which way you go about it, it’s a tough, stressful job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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