I can’t stand when I tell someone I’m a mom and they say, “Oh, so are you working or stay at home?”
…Excuse me? That's what I want to say out of my mouth however my facial expression usually says it for me first.
When did we as a society decide to label mothers into two categories: stay at home and working moms?
It's not as simple as one woman stays in their safety of their home all day long waiting hand and foot on their child while the other woman works extremely hard in an office then comes home to just put her child to bed.
Just because I don’t get a paycheck each week and I am with my children the entire day doesn’t limit me to be a 'stay at home' mom.
Newsflash, I actually leave my house with my children, contrary to popular belief that I 'stay at home'. Where ever I go, my kids go.
I go to the grocery store with them, play dates with them, run errands with them and I leave my home with them. Does that sound like someone that just 'stays at home' to you?
Calling me a Stay at Home Mom is pretty offensive actually. It implies that I sit on my couch all day while with my children and eat candy or read magazines.
It implies that I don't work at all. That I never take them out of the home and we don’t do things all day long.
And the truth is, that is the furthest thing from the truth and if you spent even one morning with us you would see that staying at home is the last thing we do.
You guys, moms that are with their children all day and moms that go outside of the home to a job are no different from each other.
We aren’t Stay at Home Moms or Working Moms so stop giving us titles or limiting us with labels.
We both work, we both leave the home and we both have really important jobs. More importantly at the end of the day, we are both moms, no extra wording needed.
