Parenting is More Challenging and Rewarding than Feminist Thinks

Becoming a stay-at-home mom 3 years ago has been the most rewarding and challenging thing I have ever done. I have been able to share every moment of my childrens lives which is very rewarding. Although, there have been many challenges. The biggest challenge right now is dealing with a 3 year old who thinks he is ready to run his own life. But, I wouldn’t change a thing…afterall, I get free hugs and kisses all day.

This article (found via this article) by feminist Linda Hirshman is the most disturbing thing I have read in quite some time. She says that “she thinks staying at home with the children is an occupation not worthy of the full time and talents of intelligent and educated human beings”. Ann Coulter of the Huffington Post writes that “Hirshman and those who think like her, are expressing an intolerant world view that women who don’t work are losers”. Some of the women she interviewed confirmed her worst fears, they liked being mothers. Imagine, getting satisfaction from something that doesn’t require giving your life away to a corporation and leaving someone else to raise your children.

I am of the opinion that my current career is harder than anything that I did working outside the home. But, it is a choice that every woman needs to make for herself.

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June 21, 2006 | Filed Under Parenting 

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