Are you a stay-at-home-mom?

Question

Why did you decide to become one? Do you enjoy it?

also, do you ever see yourself going back to work somewhere down the road?

Answer 1

For me there was no other option. Why would you have kids if you're not going to be the one taking care of them? It just doesn't make sense to me....My baby comes before money or a career. No matter how much or how little you make you can afford to be a SAHM-esp considering the cost of daycare. It's all about priorities. Oh yeah- I LOVE my job-it's hard sometimes but I would NEVER trust MY baby to somebody else, no matter how competent they are. I love him to much to do that.

Answer 2

Im a stay at home mom of 3 young children. My oldest will be 5 next month then a 2 yr old and a 4 1/2 month old. This was a mutual decision between me and my husband because we have nobody to watch the children if we both work and day care is expensive and around here not very safe. I enjoy being there for my kids every day and seeing them grow and learn. Of course I have to get away every now and then and have time for me. I plan on getting my RN (nursing degree) and going back to work after the children reach school age but for now I just want to stay here and enjoy them.

Answer 3

Work once a week the same time the kids are at school.
Once they get into high school or middle school i see myself going back to work for college and cars and more expensive things.
I don't regret staying home. i had my kids raised the way i wanted. i got to spend quality time with them. No one else raised them, i know they are and who they're going to be. They had somewhere to take care of them when they were sick. They had someone to listen to how their day was when they came home from school. They had a mom, instead of a parent.
I would suggest staying home. Get to know your kids, love them. When you feel they can handle decisions well enough, that they can last a day without you guiding them, Try going back to work a couple days a week and slowly move onto more days at work. In the end, i think you'll like the rewards and little things that made your days to wonderful! I hope you make the right decision for you! =)

Answer 4

Now I am because I was put on Bed Rest at 32 weeks pregnant with my 3rd child. Prior to that I was working full time as a Realtor, the good part about that job was I could do alot of it from home and only had to pay for a sitter two or three days a week.

Now that I am going to have 3 kids I won't be able to afford daycare for awhile so I will be full time stay at home Mom. I will countinue to work on my Real Estate Career and just reffer my business to other Agents until such time I can get back to work.

It is a tough job to stay at home, I really admire all those women who have done it for awhile. I am finally starting to get a groove going but it is hard because I am limited to what I can do on Bed Rest. I do enjoy being with my kids and I am really going to enjoy the baby for sure.. being that it is my last one.

I think it is important to have a self identity and make sure you make time for your self and your friends etc.. I am looking forward to spending time at the gym and going to my other SAHM friends house for play dates.

And yes, I am going to go back to work when my two year old starts pre-K if not before.

Answer 5

Yes, I knew even before I was pregnant that I wanted to be a SAHM. I can't stand the thought of giving my son to someone else to raise. If I were still working, I'd only see him 2 hours a day. NOT worth it at all. It's hard to be a SAHM but at the same time it's the best thing in the world to be able to be there for your kids. We want to have 1 or 2 more kids so I'll go back to work when they're all in school. Until then, I'm enjoying my time off (even though it doesn't feel like I'm "off duty") raising my son the way me and my husband want him to be raised. Yes, it gets boring and lonely sometimes especially when they're really little. I sometimes miss being at wor and being able to be with people my own age but that's what grandparents are for! They're there to give you the time off you deserve to have sometimes. I wouldn't change it for the world.

Answer 6

I decided to become one because... It terrifies me to leave my children with a sitter or in a daycare situation. I myself experienced bad situations as a child from daycares/sitters.

Also... The incredible cost of childcare isn't worth my TIME away from my children.

Yes, I truly enjoy it. But it's not always easy either. Neither is being a working-outside-the-home mom, I'm sure. I have bad days just like everyone else. But overall I really enjoy the fact that I know where my kids have been all day, I know what they've done, who they've been with and what they've had to eat. I get to experience every moment - both the good and the bad.

I feel lucky to be able to stay home with my kids for now. My daughter is 3.5 and my son is 10 months. I know that I might not always be able to stay at home. And as my kids get older, I might decide to return to the workforce. Who knows what the future may hold... but right now, I'm happy as things are...!

:)

Answer 7

Yes I'm a stay at home mom. When we found out i was pregnant with my daughter i had lost my job a few weeks before. My husband and I sat down and talked about it and we both have strong feelings about raising our children in a traditional home. I want to be the one raising my children, not a daycare.
I do have career ambitions. Once both my kids are in school, I am going back to college and finish my degrees so i can pursue my dream of being a forensic lab technician,
I love being home with my kids. I love seeing all their little accomplishments and helping them overcome their obstacles. My hat is off to working parents i don't see how they balance kids, home, and work! There are days that i don't have time to comb my hair!

Answer 8

Yes, I'm a SAHM. We did the math and discovered that I was earning just enough money at my job to pay for daycare, the gas to get to work, the lunch I ate at work and the clothes I needed for work. I quit the next day. Didn't think I'd like staying at home but found I loved it and the kids love it. We started fostering and then adopted some of our foster babies and now I couldn't go back to work if I wanted to but it's okay because we're having a fabulous time together out here on the farm.

Answer 9

Yes, I am a stay-at-home mom. I decided to become one when the kids were born. I love it and wouldn't change it for the world. Maybe someday I'll go back to work but not until their all in school at least. As of right now my husband prefer's I stay home in case of emergency while he works. It's the hardest yet the best job in the world

Answer 10

I am, for the most part, a stay-at-home mom. I work weekends only but not for the money (its only 400.00 a month), just to give me some sense of accomplishment besides being a baby maker and house cleaner :) I didn't personally make the decision to stay at home with my children, it just happened. My boyfriend makes enough to support us, but if I was to work full-time, daycare would take all of my pay plus much more (there is 4 kids at home and at 120.00 a week per kid for full-time care, thats 480.00 each week and I only got 220.00 a week before I quit my FT job last May, and all 4 kids would be at seperate day-care centers because not one has room for all of them), and it just doesn't seem like a reasonable option to spend money to work outside the home and leave my kids with "strangers" all day long. We sat and weighed the pros and cons and decided having me at home would be the best option for the kids especially when we factored in that I would not have a paycheck and would actually have to pay 260.00 a week for me to work (not including the extra gas to get back and forth from 4 different day care centers and for me to get back and forth to work, which we averaged to be another 60.00 per week, and additional wear and tear on the car among other things).

Answer 11

I'm not really, I work 3 days a week. My husband and I would like me to eventually be a stay at home mom, maybe after the 2nd child. It's stressful being at home with my daughter all day sometimes, but I know it's the best thing for a child. Once my children are all in school I would probably work a little bit in the mornings. With my job I'm in charge of my hours and when I work, so I'm lucky enugh to be able to do my own schedule.