Club'nBabySeals
Where are my pants?
Is leaving the business world for a few years to be a "stay at home mom" worth the long term detriment to a currently successful career?
Is it worth it?
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foodcritic
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ABSOLUTELY!!!! Staying at home will be the hardest job you have ever done and the most rewarding. I also think why would you have kids if you weren't going to stay home and take care of them. I have sacrificed many new cars, vacations, new clothes, giving my kids all kinds of stuff, to be able to stay home with them. At times it has been really difficult financially and I wonder how we have done it for 10 year but my kids are more important to me than any self satisfaction I could receive from a paying job.
mommyoftwo
New Member
im a stay at home mom. it is hard sometimes i wonder what if i went to collage and had a great job would it been better then my son or daughter makes a sound i look at them and i say to myself i made the right choice. i never had my my around at all untill i was like 10 even then she didnt know what do. i dont want to be that. my kids are more important thenmaking momey. we have a roof over our head bills are paid. food on the the table clothes on our back. im happy.
It is strictly a personal decision. Do you WANT to stay home? Some moms feel guilty for not staying home. I personally don't feel guilty that I work. I love the daycare my daughter has attended for years. My decision was not "career based" but I am a single mother and have no choice but to work but knowing what I know now, if I were given the choice, I would still opt to have my daughter in daycare. That may be because of the wonderful experience that I personally have had. If you feel that you want or need to stay home with your children then it IS worth doing so. Either way, there will be very strong opinions from the working mothers and the stay at home mothers. For some reason it seems that each can't agree with the other's decision. I say do whatever makes you happy and don't worry about the guilt of not staying home or the guilt of staying home and putting your career on hold.
StrawberryGal
Sweet and Innocent
Yes, it is worth to be stay at home mother because:
1. Daycare are damn expensive
2. Finding a good decent daycare are hard to find because the good ones are always full.
3. No need to take days off and use LWOP to tend to your sick kids, taking them to doctors, etc.
4. You get to raise and watch your kids growing up (meeting thier first milestone is worth it!)
5. You have the totally control on how you want your kids to be raised instead of having someone else to care for your kids doing thier ways.
6. Be able to attend your child's school to help assist with field trips, classroom parties, etc.
7. Get to join in the Moms' Club and meet other awesome stay at home mothers.
8. Able to go shopping during daytime and avoid the "crowd" at nights and weekends.
9. Able to take a nap when your children takes a nap when you are very tired.
10. Able to plan your meals and cook homemade meals for dinner every night (save alot of $$$ from going out to eat).
11. Also, it is very rewarding when the kids grow up and say "Mom, thank you for giving me the best childhood by staying home taking care of me."
I hope I helped you with reasons why staying at home are excellent rewarding.
Chasey_Lane
Salt Life
Do what makes you happiest. If you have the ability to stay home with your kid(s) and don't mind the income cut, go for it!
Geek
New Member
I have tried to stay involved so I still have contacts and things to put on my resume. I also will begin taking my Master's classes ASAP. 9 years into SAHM and they are still offering me jobs
kwillia
n/a
I have tried to stay involved so I still have contacts and things to put on my resume. I also will begin taking my Master's classes ASAP. 9 years into SAHM and they are still offering me jobs
Well... they are a Super Walmart now and need extra employees...:shrug:
lovinmaryland
Well-Known Member
Geek
New Member
Very few people are willing to test out new services the Super Wal Mart is thinking of providing. Like the Super Pap and Lube.
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sckald
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usagent
New Member
I did it and I'm the Dad......I think.
usagent
New Member
Good for you!I remember my dad being the only dad picking his kids up from school. He stayed home with us and then worked in Real Estate (flexible schedule) as we got older.
It's great. I try to score with all the Mom's.
justsara
New Member
Maybe you would have learned how to spell COLLEGEI tried to resist really I did but I just couldn't do it!
LusbyMom
You're a LOON :)
My husband and I discussed this and decided together that it would be better for me to be home with the kids. It was well worth it. Kids grow up to fast and I was lucky enough to not have to work and be able to stay home and raise them.
At times we had to do without some of those extra things, but in the end I was able to spend precious time with my babies and that is worth more then "things"