My wife was a stay at home Mom, we are retired now.
What used to piss me off the most was going to PTA meetings and having the teachers reactions when she told them she was a Housewife. They looked on her like she was dirt.
We didn’t have a lot of the things our friends had, but we had a good life with each other and our kids. We raised them, not some day care.
“... she was a housewife”.
Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt AND sent the postcard. The phrase is usually “just a stay at home Mom” or “just a housewife”. It takes thick skin to stay at home. It really does. No matter your I.Q. or your level of education.. you suddenly become a window licking moron, lazy, out of touch, and worthless. That being said, It isn’t ONLY the liberals who hold this view. I have had comments on this very site about being out of touch or that “I should get out in the world more”. I even read one comment from a female freeper that she “tried it and was going nuts” so she went back to work full time where she is happy. My best advice for any woman just beginning to be a stay at home wife/mom... ignore the words and insults and know that you are raising a future generation of intelligent, thoughtful, conservative adults. “The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world”. Hugs to your wife, Venturer!
I stayed home with my kids for 15 years. My oldest is now a financial analyst at a very well known company in NYC, completely self supporting at 25 years old. I even home schooled her for a stint. The other two are well adjusted and doing fine also.
The flak I caught for doing this — from neighbors, from relatives, from my so-called Catholic MIL ..was unbearable at times. Now I don’t hear a peep from any of them on how well she turned out — no credit ever given. It was always rubbed in my face that so and so “actually works,” yet somehow what I did wasn’t seen as real work.
I’m already back working at a second career. Life is long. I look back on those days as the best of my life. Women need to get their heads out of their butts and realize they have only ONE chance to raise that kid.
I always held firm in those days to that quote by Jacqueline Kennedy ...”If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.”
We were the same. We didn’t have the latest anything but we had fun.
I hear you as a wife and Mom, I have worked part time occasionally to help out but most of my family is disgusted that I don’t have a career and work. For years I allowed them to make me feel inferior and now I just tell them I like being home with the kids, it is fulfilling, I wish I would figured this out about 15 years ago.
We didn’t have a lot of the things our friends had, but we had a good life with each other and our kids
And what can possibly be more important.