Stay At Home Mums Should Be Ashamed

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Look around and you will find women achieving great feats in different fields of endeavours. While some of these women maintain a home front with a budding career, a good number pour themselves into their careers avoiding marriage and motherhood.

A woman who combines a family and career is praised to high heavens, she’s the new ideal woman today. She is the kind of woman young girls are advised to emulate. Similarly, the world is beginning to acknowledge the greatness of single women making their marks in the world.

Stay at home mums seem to be the only category of women left behind. They are the ones still looked down upon by society and their fellow women. Why should a woman be a stay at home mum in this century some would ask?  I used to be amongst those asking this question until recently I thought

“why not?” If single women with career are getting praised, married women with careers adored then stay at home mums deserve their own praises.

Mums who take care of their children and homes full time are not doing the easiest of tasks. Most married women with jobs employ nannies and extra hands for home help. Thus women who opt to be full time mother or wife are doing no small feat.

Stay at home mothers are the most likely to attend PTA meetings, children’s sports activities, graduation ceremonies, help their child with homework and take the children to and from school on time. Stay at home mothers have the requisite time essential in good parenting.

They are unlike the single career lady who places her career first or the career mother whose attention is divided between home and office. The stay at home mums is the least selfish type of women; they choose to place others’ needs above theirs. She prepares food in time for her family. She maintains the home, has time to care for both the children and husband. She is not like the selfish single career lady or like the career mother who wants to eat her cake and have it.

Yet the world berates this class of women. It is most shameful that stay at home mums allow their efforts and hard work go without notice. They ought to blow their trumpets more often; it would get the world to sit up and notice their worth.