Can We Stop Pretending That Being a Working Mom Is So Great?
Mom Tips
English - November 06, 2019 11:02 - 3 minutes - 1.52 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsSociety & Culture spokenlayer Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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A super-popular opinion floating around the mommy-sphere is that being a stay-at-home mom is much, much harder than being a working one. After all, stay-at-home moms sacrifice a lot in order to take care of their kids. I've seen (and edited) countless essays extolling the hardships of SAH motherhood, where moms remind working mothers that they actually don't have countless hours to get housework done, cook dinner, and wrangle kids into preplanned playdates. And of course, they are right.