It’s not a job, and here is exactly why it isn’t a job. Can you hope that if you work really hard and are very good at being a mom, someday you will be rewarded with a promotion and a raise? No. Even if you leave your kids behind for two weeks, you don’t stop being a mom. Can you one day decide that these kids aren’t really a good fit for you, and maybe you’d do better with some other kids elsewhere?
Key Takeaways:
- While an argument can be made that you can get promoted to grandmother or you can get rewarded with more children, I assure you, the pay stays the same.
- Can you take a vacation from being a mom? Do you get to take two weeks off and go to Cabo with your girlfriends and be completely and utterly not a mom? No. Even if you leave your kids behind for two weeks, you don’t stop being a mom.
- Do you know of a job where you are on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, all of the years of your life until you die? You do? Does it pay well? Because my daughter’s doesn’t pay me shit for what I do here.
“Motherhood is not a job (it is work though, my god is it work), but it is not a job. Calling it such cheapens what we do.”
http://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/1131134/mother-not-a-job
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