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ModBlogger I feel very fortunate to have grown up in a time and place where I could make my own choices. As a child I chose to do ballet, as I grew older I chose my friends and later I even chose my college (well unfortunately my SAT scores chose that one). Now as an adult I have again been able to make my own choice to stay at home with my children. It wasn’t an easy choice I went back and forth several times-was on countless waitlists for area daycare centers, I even thought about getting a nanny-of course to my husbands dismay.
Then after my daughter was born I felt very isolated-I had gone from working full time seeing adult human beings every day to holding a screaming baby for 12 hours a day straight. I thought maybe I made the wrong choice and I thought I was not cut out to stay at home. So I realized I needed some balance in my life. That was when I started working from home-I had several very interesting jobs-which gave me great flexibility and now of course Modern Mom Magazine -which I am most excited about. However, there is one thing I don’t understand about the society we live in maybe someone can enlighten me. Why do I hear so much about these “mommy wars”? Is it just propaganda? Should it really matter whether you work outside the home, in the home or work from home? I have several friends who work outside of the home-some have the option others don’t. We don’t have any animosity towards each other-at least I don’t think we do. My thoughts are, that at the end of the day we are all Moms. We all want our children to grow up happy and be successful members of society. We all put our children’s pants on one leg at a time-or maybe sometimes two legs-so we should appreciate what we have in common and worry less about competing with each other. OK, now you can go and sing koom by ya with your fellow moms- Have a happy and safe holiday!
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