The Ultimate Feminist is the Stay at Home Mom

I hoped that life for mothers who choose to stay at home and care for their children would have improved in the last twenty or more years, but they really haven't. Many stay at home moms have the same feelings of guilt that we did in the eighties and nineties.

Really, should a woman feel guilty for making the decision to be home with her children? Isn't a woman making these choices the ultimate feminist the right to choose her own path, teaching her values to her children?

Incredibly, other women who claim to have feminist views are some of the least appreciative and respectful of stay at home moms. If I had a dollar for every time I have heard a working woman tell a stay at home mom, "I really admire your choice to stay home, if it were me I would die of boredom." So damned condescending! I cringe every time I hear those words.

Stay at home moms don't have time to be bored, teaching and caring for their children, caring for their homes, planning and preparing meals, entertainment and family events, etc. Motherhood is a 24 hour, seven day a week job. The hardest part is to stay engaged with a small child so many hours a day with few breaks. The breaks are generally spent catching up on chores that are put off while attending to the children, so what break?

I think stay at home moms need a lot more support and respect than they have received in the past.