Why I'm going to be a stay at home mother

I wish I could take the credit for writing this, but I saw it on a stay-at-home parent internet forum.


MY REASONS FOR BEING A STAY-AT-HOME MOM:

1. I am selfish – why should someone else enjoy my beautiful children while I slave away to pay for it? Why should someone else get that glorious affection my children give out? I want it for me!

2. I am arrogant – no one can raise my kids as well as I can. No one feels about them the way I do. No one knows them like I do.

3. I am super cautious – I’m fastidious about safety, about guarding against abuse, about sensitivity to their feelings and what media they are exposed to. By being around all the time, I don’t have to take chances on these issues – I know they are safe.

4. I enjoy working in a team – my partner and I work together well, we complement each other in parenting, and I like doing this with him. It’s something else that makes us closer.

5. I am poor and proud – I have so much self esteem that I don’t need great furniture or expensive clothes or a fancy house and car. I’m such a snob that I don’t need money beyond the bare essentials. My kids are my jewelry.

6. I am lazy – by raising secure and un-hassled kids who feel safe and settled, I am making it easy for myself later on. I’m planning to cruise through their adolescence. And I’m teaching them fifty kinds of housework.

7. I’m ‘into it’ – I enjoy the progress, the affection, the freedom to set my own pace, to decide how I will spend my time, the social get-togethers with other parents, the effect of the seasons on our activities, how my kids keep me young, and that I am (for this short time) the center of their world.