Its work ... more for some than others, but it's work. Very much underestimated and and most often under appreciated.... and when staying home with your children, because you feel its best for them, it becomes even that much more frustrating when others:
1. do not understand how difficult a job it truly is
2. or are jealous because they feel its a luxury to stay at home
3. look down on you because its not a "real job"
I know financially its extrememly difficult in this day and age to thrive on one income ... and in many cases, it isn't for everyone... however if one can somehow manage to do so, or wishes to do so... to me, they too deserve much admiration and resect.
would take someone with a lot of patience, i watched brothers kids for a day and was like scheew , glad i dont have to do this full time.. yepp its a job id say.
I take care of 3 children in addition to my own, 6-10 hours a day, 5 days a week!!!!!! I challenge anyone who doesn't think that is real work to spend just a few hours with us. It's a lot of fun to feed 4 children at once when they all want something different. I think anyone who has children can appreciate the hard work that goes into it. Mom's have a hard time trying to make the choice to work or stay home. You don't know the hell it is to have to think of leaving your child while you work. Just today the mom that I sit for thanked me again, because a co-worker of hers just found out that child are being abused at the day care her child go to. I could not ask for a better job...I have our son with me and I get paid. I'm also a home based travel agent. By the way Aiden was 4 months old when I got my second tattoo, my mom held him in the room and he slept the entire time. Sorry if I sound harsh but this subject is important to me.
Definately work! I was a nanny awhile back for teenagers. One had A.D.D and the other one kept on skipping out of school and no one could find him until the cop brought him to the front door
Needless to say I gave my notice after six months.
Those who stay home and take care of your children deserve more than one can say. Every once in awhile I do get envious of my sister that she stays home and doesn't work. However, that quickly dissolves when I call her and she is screaming at the kids the whole time and it sounds like there are twenty kids in the room and not just three.
For me to say that it is not a job would be disgracing everything my mother did for me while she raised four of her own children.
By the way, watching someone elses kids is the best birth control, no offense meant....
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