9. I'm jealous. I wish my husband made enough money I didn't have to work either.
8. No wonder your child is so clingy.
7. You spent all that money on a college degree, and now you're not even using it?
6. I couldn’t do that. I need to have a life.
5. Wow. I thought your house would be cleaner than this.
4. Does your husband give you an allowance from his paycheck?
3. Oh how wonderful you get to sleep in everyday.
2. What do you mean you don't cook dinner every night?
1. You're just a mom? You mean you don't have a real job?
*** I can't take full credit for this list I compiled ideas from numerous other places around the web, added a few of my own thoughts, and rearranged the order.
So Moms, now I'm curious. What's the worst thing you've ever heard about staying at home?
I think if anyone said #5 to me, they'd never be coming back. It TONS harder to keep the house clean when you stay home than when you send your kids away for the whole day. Duh.
ReplyDeleteI know, this makes me grimace as well. Yet there's a part of me that always feels guilty for being home all day yet not ever managing to keep my house clean. I say I can't keep more than one room clean at a time. Because while I'm cleaning in one place, you can guarantee someone's making a mess in the next room!
DeleteOooooo. #9 REALLY irks me! They assume because only one of us "has" to work that DH is raking in the bucks. As if. Can you say, "Poverty Level?" We just know how to be very frugal and budget ourselves. And you don't see us in designer clothes, out at restaurants every night or in front of a huge flat screen TV watching overpriced commercials (i.e. Cable TV).
ReplyDeleteOh, I know, Carolyn! It irks me too. To me, staying at home can be defined in one word: Sacrifice.'
DeleteThat's what it is. You sacrifice the luxuries you could purchase with that second paycheck to be home with your children instead.
Wow! Yep, I've heard some people say some of those things. And it totally is unfair how the stay-at-home-mom is not getting the respect that she deserves these days :/ Moms do alot!
ReplyDeleteYou know, Faye, I think respect is one of those weird things. The more you stand up and scream "I deserve to be respected" the more everyone else's respect for you shrinks.
DeleteI have been at gatherings and been introduced to "career women". I have a had several of them begin to speak slowly and distinctly to me as if I were not very bright..... I wish that I could say that I was kind and gentle with them but I would be lying.
ReplyDeleteOuch! That hurts. Some of the assumptions career women make about stay-at-home moms can be rather cruel. Simply because we have different values and goals for our families doesn't mean we're lesser people. I wish the career world could understand that!
DeleteThanks for sharing your story with us, Tana!
This post is spot-on Naomi! I hear #10 like this: I just couldn't spend all day with my kids... as if my kids are saints or something.
ReplyDeleteAh! I know. Isn't that irksome. If anything, I think kids are more well behaved other places than they are at home. At least that's my two little boys.
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