As a stay at home mom, do you feel looked down upon by working mom’s or society in general?
Thursday, July 14th, 2011Just me asked:
I ask this question because, as a stay at home mom, I feel this way 90% of the time. My working friends, some moms, so not moms, will call me on their lunch breaks at noon and say things like ” oh I’m sorry, were you sleeping?” Was I sleeping? Are you kidding me. No actually I’ve been up since 6 am. I made breakfast with one hand, while packing school lunches with the other. I really want to say actually, right now, I’m scrubbing toilets, doing laundry, blogging, making beds and talking to you all at the same time, is their something you needed? And when I’m done with all of that, I have to pick up kids, help with homework and make dinner, oh yeah and one has piano practice tonight, and the other has soccer, so sometime around 4:30 today, I have to literally figure out how to spit myself in half so I can be in two places at one time. I am so tired of when someone asks me “what do you do?” or “where do you work?” I proudly say I am a mom, then you get the “Oh”, followed by the look, and the snide smile. It’s so annoying, and condescending. I don’t like being looked down upon because I choose to be a stay at home mom. I stress the word choose. It hard being a mom, I choose to devote all my time to it, why does that bother some people so much?
work at home mom
I ask this question because, as a stay at home mom, I feel this way 90% of the time. My working friends, some moms, so not moms, will call me on their lunch breaks at noon and say things like ” oh I’m sorry, were you sleeping?” Was I sleeping? Are you kidding me. No actually I’ve been up since 6 am. I made breakfast with one hand, while packing school lunches with the other. I really want to say actually, right now, I’m scrubbing toilets, doing laundry, blogging, making beds and talking to you all at the same time, is their something you needed? And when I’m done with all of that, I have to pick up kids, help with homework and make dinner, oh yeah and one has piano practice tonight, and the other has soccer, so sometime around 4:30 today, I have to literally figure out how to spit myself in half so I can be in two places at one time. I am so tired of when someone asks me “what do you do?” or “where do you work?” I proudly say I am a mom, then you get the “Oh”, followed by the look, and the snide smile. It’s so annoying, and condescending. I don’t like being looked down upon because I choose to be a stay at home mom. I stress the word choose. It hard being a mom, I choose to devote all my time to it, why does that bother some people so much?
work at home mom
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