I Respect Mothers That Stay Home And Raise Their Kids
“For decades, devoting one’s life to being a stay-at-home mom was considered socially backward. Now, however, more and more women with lucrative careers and ample opportunities are leaving it all to stay at home with their children. …..There has been a cost, however, to all the decades of denigrating motherhood to second-class status.....
[b]Preparation[/b] -- Women today generally aren’t well prepared for motherhood. For most of us growing up in the ’80s and ’90s, our educations didn’t center around the skills needed for motherhood....
[b]Isolation[/b] --Motherhood today involves a lot of loneliness and isolation. Gone are the neighborhoods filled with growing families, where every other house had a mom at home with her kids......
[image][b]Society Doesn’t Value Kids[/b] - We live in a culture that simply does not value children...Our culture tolerates children out of necessity, but it certainly doesn’t embrace them as a valuable good. It is hard as a mother to always feel that your family’s mere presence is a nuisance, whether at the grocery store, a restaurant, airports or trains and, yes, sadly, even at church....
[b]Generational Support[/b] - Perhaps the most overlooked element of motherhood today is that lack of generational support. Many of us don’t live near family, or if we do, that family may not always be so supportive of our pro-life choices. I know of several women who cringe at the thought of telling their parents that they are having another child.....
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[I might add that when we find time to escape for a few minutes on social media we are often misunderstood, and sometimes in the most disturbing of ways. For example, when I share how I ( in a rediscovery of some ancient maternal wisdom which goes against the grain of the postmodern world) frequently give stinging reality checks to the bare bottoms 💥of my precious babies -- inorder to help instill the virtues of discipline, responsibility, respect and moral sense -- and maintain a semblance of order in the herd -- I am often treated like an ignoramus or monster --- or worse, there are people who (shudder) seem to be titillated.]
[center][image][/center]And yet, despite all of these issues, women are embracing stay-at-home motherhood. While from the outside it may just look like a slog (and on the inside, there are days and seasons when it might feel like that), few moms won’t tell you that raising their children is the most rewarding thing they have ever done.” [b]~ Carrie Gress[/b] [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/2kssGVo[/c]
[b]Preparation[/b] -- Women today generally aren’t well prepared for motherhood. For most of us growing up in the ’80s and ’90s, our educations didn’t center around the skills needed for motherhood....
[b]Isolation[/b] --Motherhood today involves a lot of loneliness and isolation. Gone are the neighborhoods filled with growing families, where every other house had a mom at home with her kids......
[image][b]Society Doesn’t Value Kids[/b] - We live in a culture that simply does not value children...Our culture tolerates children out of necessity, but it certainly doesn’t embrace them as a valuable good. It is hard as a mother to always feel that your family’s mere presence is a nuisance, whether at the grocery store, a restaurant, airports or trains and, yes, sadly, even at church....
[b]Generational Support[/b] - Perhaps the most overlooked element of motherhood today is that lack of generational support. Many of us don’t live near family, or if we do, that family may not always be so supportive of our pro-life choices. I know of several women who cringe at the thought of telling their parents that they are having another child.....
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[I might add that when we find time to escape for a few minutes on social media we are often misunderstood, and sometimes in the most disturbing of ways. For example, when I share how I ( in a rediscovery of some ancient maternal wisdom which goes against the grain of the postmodern world) frequently give stinging reality checks to the bare bottoms 💥of my precious babies -- inorder to help instill the virtues of discipline, responsibility, respect and moral sense -- and maintain a semblance of order in the herd -- I am often treated like an ignoramus or monster --- or worse, there are people who (shudder) seem to be titillated.]
[center][image][/center]And yet, despite all of these issues, women are embracing stay-at-home motherhood. While from the outside it may just look like a slog (and on the inside, there are days and seasons when it might feel like that), few moms won’t tell you that raising their children is the most rewarding thing they have ever done.” [b]~ Carrie Gress[/b] [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/2kssGVo[/c]