Do you find it hard at times to juggle the priorities of raising a child and the priorities of work? My daughter got sick with flu this last week and I stayed home one day with her as both of us had been up all night the night before. It's hard for all the dilemmas you face wanting to be a good mom and employee as well. How do you do it?
2006-10-01 05:02:00 · 7 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Rev? this is directed to women of faith for a reason. We care about faith, values and really do attempt to love our families and not break them up. Why are you so offended by this question? This is a perfectly legitimate in the Religion and Spirituality area.
2006-10-01 05:08:53 · update #1
Tenacious my husband is a good Christian and he has just returned to work this last summer after a fight with cancer. Don't judge me and I won't judge you.
2006-10-01 05:11:12 · update #2
Note this question was directed to Christian moms only. Enough said.
2006-10-01 05:14:51 · update #3
I work because we like to eat and I am the main income in my family for now. I work nights and home school my sons in the daytime. We are hoping that by the new year I will be able to stay home. Right now since my husband usually plays music in the evenings our sons are only home alone for an hour or two a few times a week. We have always worked different shifts and that is just to get by.No luxuries except internet and basic cable. So a shifting of schedules and lots of prayer.God won't give you anything you can't handle. He will put you where He wants you to be.
2006-10-01 06:38:15 · answer #1 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry about having an immaculate house. I'm not a stay at home mom but personally I don't understand how some women keep their houses spotless. Their poor kids must have to stay in their rooms all the time or something. My house is only spotless on Saturday mornings - that's when I do my weekly cleaning. The rest of the week I do basic pickup and wipe down when I get home from work. I literally set a timer for 10 minutes and do nothing but clean. The 10 minutes a day keeps it from getting truly dirty but means I don't follow my daughter around all evening telling her to pick up her toys (actually she does that during the 10 minutes cleaning and it keeps them under control, if there's some on the floor when we go to bed so what, that's what the next days 10 minutes is for). If 10 minutes a couple times a day isn't enough time for you to get the house the way you want then my suggestion would be to advertise around the neighborhood for a mother's helper - a younger teenager who can entertain and take care of the kids for an hour or two while you clean house and do laundry.
2016-03-18 03:20:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rev makes a valid point.
Jesus: Put GOD above your mother and father, son and daughter.
That means IF REQUIRED you must FORSAKE THEM for GOD. That is a demand of Jesus. If your MOTHER, FATHER, SON or DAUGHTER turns or attempts to turn you away from God, you MUST foresake them or perish.
Unless of course, you think you've mastered Jesus to the point where you can cure with a touch.
All you face by staying home is catching the flu youself, giving it back to the household over and over with INCREASE risk of secondary infections in a closed, winter environment such as MENINGITIS, which comes from people in enclosed areas habitually re-breathing bacteria ladened air.
You're hearts in the right place, you head, well we don't know the exact crircumstances so it's 50/50.
God and the angeles are either watching out for things are they aren't. Now, putting off watching TV to be with your kid another thing. Watching TV serves no purpose other than wasting time, like Yahoo Answers.
Working pays the bills, pays the doctor, buys the health insurance, put medicine in the cabinet or are you expecting US to pay your way so you can stay home, because a lot of people would love to stay home with their families and not work.
Are you a qualified physician, a licensed nurse? Can you call up and order the Phramcy it just send over some Ampicillin because you know the symptoms warrant it! So long is someone is around to watch over the child or you can put that child in someone's care there is no great need. And if there is that need applies to EVERYONE equally or are religious people really that narrow minded and think all others be darned!
Roughly 90% of America and England are religious. If 90% stayed home tomorrow with someone who was sick, the country would grind to a halt and YOU couldn't get your ampicillin because the Pharmasists was home with a sick child and NO ONE but him can fill the prescripton and the DOCTOR was home with his sick child, so HE CAN'T SEE your sick child today, you have to wait for him to come back to work!
In Jesus time, if you stayed home instead of toiling the fields no one might eat that night, for nothing would get harvests, no milk would be taken from the cows, no water drawn from the stream and not lamb slaughtered for dinner.
Yu didn't just pick up a phone dial Pizza man and pay with a credit card back then.
2006-10-01 05:35:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why does this only apply to Christian mom's? Why exactly are you attempting to insult all other mom's by disincluding them from a question that has nothing to do with religion?
2006-10-01 05:06:13 · answer #4 · answered by reverenceofme 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
If your husband was a good Christian you wouldn't have to work outside the home, or even leave it for that matter.
2006-10-01 05:05:05 · answer #5 · answered by tenaciousd 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Mom's who aren't xtian don't stay up with their children? Or maybe you think our children don't get the flu? Or we don't love our children since we don't see them as a gift from god?
All mom's face dilemmas and suffer from exhaustion. It is the hardest and most rewarding thing we ever do as women, regardless of our belief system.
2006-10-01 05:08:03 · answer #6 · answered by Medusa 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Hmm. I don't think I was offended until the edit and the implication that non-Christians don't care about faith or family values.
2006-10-01 05:10:29 · answer #7 · answered by angk 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why would this only apply to christian mothers?
2006-10-01 05:04:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋