Saw a bumper sticker the other day…<\/p>\n
“Every mother is a working woman.”<\/em><\/p>\n Just to level-set, let’s define someone who “works” as someone who gets paid for what they do.\u00a0 So in that context, is every mother a working woman??\u00a0 No.<\/p>\n And it’s that kind of “well…uh…I…uh…’work’ [winky wink<\/em>]….uh…” drivel,\u00a0made up by stay at home moms, that drives me ape.\u00a0 I just don’t get it.\u00a0 You’ve got a super sweet gig, Girlfriend!\u00a0 Why trivialize it by acting and sounding all defensive about being a “working” woman?!<\/p>\n It does\u00a0NOT\u00a0make you sound empowered and happy with your lot in life.\u00a0\u00a0Rather, you sound bitter and like-you-would-have-made-a-different-choice-if-you-could.\u00a0 And that\u00a0“I’m the CEO of the XYZ Family” is just nonsense.\u00a0\u00a0So stop.<\/p>\n If you don’t know what it’s like to work AND be a mom, just stop.\u00a0\u00a0I’m serious.\u00a0 This has got me all riled up!\u00a0 Can you tell?!<\/p>\n To be the traditional bread-winner (like the husbands from the 50’s) AND to be the mother\u00a0(like Mrs.\u00a0Cunningham from Happy Days)\u00a0all-in-one-person is really, really<\/em>, REALLY<\/strong>\u00a0hard.\u00a0\u00a0 Unless you’ve done it, you cannot possibly<\/em> comprehend how hard it is and what a high level of anxiety you constantly function within.<\/p>\n Being two…two…two people in one – is it harder<\/em> than being (just) a stay at home mom?!\u00a0 Perhaps.\u00a0\u00a0Is it easier??\u00a0 Absolutely not!\u00a0 So don’t denigrate it.\u00a0 My mother always said: You don’t build yourself up by tearing someone else down.<\/p>\n So, if you’re a stay at home mom by hook or by crook – stand proud.\u00a0 Enough with the silly bumper stickers!\u00a0 Don’t try to minimize what the working women do, and perhaps they won’t try to minimize what you (we?) do.<\/p>\n This reminds me of a song from my college\/sorority days…”we’re all good sisters, each one the other’s friend, and we’ll be good sisters ’til all the world shall end.\u00a0 CHUG!!!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saw a bumper sticker the other day… “Every mother is a working woman.” Just to level-set, let’s define someone who “works” as someone who gets paid for what they do.\u00a0 So in that context, is every mother a working woman??\u00a0 No. And it’s that kind of “well…uh…I…uh…’work’ [winky wink]….uh…” drivel,\u00a0made up by stay at home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}