The Hard Choice of Staying Home

During a counseling session, many women bring up the topic of staying home to be a wife and mom. This is a topic that needs to be discussed fully and completely with your husband/fiance. For some couples, this decision can be made in 30 seconds, others need to have weeks of discussion.

This article was an interesting read, featured on 2 blogs and the LA Times.

Today, choosing to stay home with your kids is a hard choice. The fact that this is true is made all the more clear by the increasingly smaller number of mothers choosing to do so.

More and more it is assumed that children will stay with grandma, relatives, be put in daycare, or go to after-school programs. For many women, there isn’t even a choice involved. This is simply what people do today.

But being in the workforce has shown me the other side of the coin. How do working mothers usually feel about it? Frazzled. Rushed. Sometimes guilty, but mostly that the work never stops and there is never enough time in the day.
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