Do you think women who stay home with their children once they are school age are lazy?.?

Answer 1

I am a stay at home mom with a child in first grade and one in third. The kids get out of school at 2:15. Between the hours of 8:00 and 2:00, I spend my day volunteering at the school, cleaning the house, doing the shopping, taking care of the bills and other finances, doing the laundry, doing the yard work, and preparing snacks and dinner for the family. Sometimes I also get to throw in doctor's appointments for the kids, unexpected errands, and so forth. Try doing all that within the 6 hours before the kids get home and tell me if you think I'm lazy. I give myself about an hour a day (not all at once I might add) to do things I enjoy. Responding to this question for example. The rest of the day is spent helping with homework, playing together, or running around to different activities. Not to mention the constant stream of dirty dishes and laundry. I never get a break from that. I actually work more hours than my husband. My job doesn't end until the kids are in bed and the dinner dishes are done. When the week is finally over, I get to do the same thing on the weekends. A mother's job never ends!

Answer 2

There is nothing lazy about a mother at all. It takes a lot of time, patience and work to run a household and raise children. I think that home is the best place for a mother to be even when the children are in school. They get more attention that they need and the mother can keep up with the child's schoolwork, homework and the child can come home instead of going to a babysitter or coming home and being by themselves. I say Kudos to any woman who is able to stay home with the children. Also, when the child is sick, the parent will be there for them and not have to take off work. Too many families have both parents working because they HAVE to due to financial strains. So, I believe there is nothing lazy about staying at home.

Answer 3

well, hmmm...i take care of all the fish tanks, the frog (until spring when we will let him go) two birds (one is like having a child with severe adhd!) a dog, a cat......then I have housework, laundry...errands, cooking, dishes. I also answer phones, file, type, fax, doctor....all sorts of things. Just because I do not leave home on a daily basis to go to work, does not mean I don't work.

They did a study on how much stay at home moms make in a year....given all the "titles" we have, ie, nurse, doctor, taxi driver, office manager, ect ect ect...we are worth about 120,000 per year!

So, I'd say even if I had time to watch tv (usually from 11 am to 1 pm everyday if i can) and friday's I take off....or try to! I am always the last one to sleep and most the time, the first one to get up in the am.

Our jobs can be very demanding-but never demeaning....
If you find yourself lazy, you could really be depressed or stressed or both.

Answer 4

Some are lazy and some are not. If the family needs money and there is day care available after school hours and for all the millions of days off that schools get, then the person should work. Sometimes women do not have skills that can bring in enough money to pay for the after school care and days off care. That is a very frustrating situation. If she can make money, money is needed and she is not working then she is doing her family a disservice. If her husband has money plenty then she can certainly stay home and keep a lovely home and make good meals. You have to consider each case individually.

Answer 5

That would depend on what it is they're doing all day. I suppose if they have a ton of money and like to spend their days lounging and shopping, that is their perogative. I, personally, would go nuts. However, I'm a mom who stays home. We home school. So, I'm busy all day. Plus, I do a lot of volunteer work within the community. I may not bring home a pay check but I'm certainly not lazy. I also run my own business which has ups and down. Just because a mom isn't off working in the corporate world or you don't THINK she is contributing, doesn't mean she isn't.

Answer 6

Lazy?! You're probably one of two people. Either you think mother's who stay at home are lazy or you are a mom who stays home and maybe feels a bit lazy or guilty.

This is a typical day for me.
Wake up at 6:30
COOK breakfast for my son while he gets dressed for school.
Help him get ready for school, walk him to school.
Then come home, feed dog, cat, fish. Do dishes from breakfast,
do about 3 loads of laundry, sweep and mop all floors, Pick up everyone's stuff and put it where it goes, dust.
Walk back to school to pick son up. Walk home, help him with homework if needed. Work in yard a bit if need be. Make up the beds, feed the animals again, cook dinner, clean dishes and kitchen after dinner. Give son a bath. Make sure he reads for 20 minutes.

Every other day I clean the bathroom and bedrooms. If I have to go to the grocery store I either walk four miles and take the bus back or I just take the bus both ways. This is also true if I have any appointments or if my son has any appointments. My husband works so he has the car.

I also volunteer at my son's school from time to time.

At night when we watch tv I crochet dresses for babies to sell.

I don't set still too often.

Answer 7

I personally wouldn't be able to stay home all the time. I would be one broke woman, cuz when I don't have anything to do at home I tend to go to the stores and just spend money. But no, I don't think it's lazy cuz u can get alot done in the home, run lots of errands, have dinner ready, do laundry. You know all the stuff that we do on the weekends if we didn't have a 40 hour work week.

Answer 8

Hmm, I stay at home and my child is in school. I still clean my own house, and do a lot of errands. Plus, when my son comes home, I help him with homework, and take him to activities.

But, I do have a lot of free time. I am feeling lazy, and in the process of getting a job.

If the person has more than one child, and spends all evening running that child around to activities, etc. it leaves little time, except for the weekend to get things done if she would work during the day.

I really think it depends on the situation.

Answer 9

People didn't used to need to punch a time clock and get a paycheck from someone else to realize that their time was valuable.

In fact, when women started leaving the homes, the neighborhoods, the communities, things have really gone downhill, because no institutions were created to replace the very necessary, important, demanding work the far from lazy women do in keeping a family, home, neighborhood, and community going.

Heck, if the stay-home moms of elementary school kids just started learning what the Bush administration has been doing to our lives, fortunes, and sacred honor and used some of their imaginary 'free time' to get politcally active, we might just save this country.

Answer 10

I have been a stay at mom for most of my children's lives. I have at times worked because of husband being laid off. But then he was home with the kids. We have four and we had decided before we had them that I would stay home with them. Even with them in school I was always having to run here and there for them. They were all involved in sports, and then they do get sick. And then if no one volunteers at the schools what happens. So I was one of the moms always aware of what was going on in my kids lives. Now my youngest is a Junior in High School and will graduate in "08". so now I do a lot of volunteering. I am still very busy so no I do not think they are lazy. There are people that get paid a lot of money to stay with kids but why let someone else raise your kids when you can do it yourself?