What Is A Realistic Income For A Stay At Home Mom?
Author: JessicaFranks Total views: 13 Word Count: 874
Envision holding a position that has no beginning or no ending hours. No predictability, and very little in the way of routine. A job that often is not very structured, and it's primary qualifications are readiness, flexibility, awareness, and stamina. For stay-at-home moms, this is their daily life.
Opinions vary regarding what would comprise of a realistic income for stay-at-home moms. There are many opinions about whether being a stay-at-home mom should be classified as employment, in part due to the absence of usual employment perks, such as vacations, benefits, and break-times. I, myself, hold the view that being a stay-at-home mom is a very real job. In many ways it is more demanding than any other job there is. The boss here is the little one, dictating through tears and howls or pulls at your clothing when it is time to eat, time to sleep, time to play. And this doesn't get put on hold while managing the laundry, cleaning the house, paying bills, or doing any of the other duties affiliated with running a household. All those other obligations need to be juggled around the demands for attention, the diaper changes, the feedings, storytime, and doctor visits. The list could go on and on.
To the outsider unfamiliar with the inner workings, being a stay-at-home mom appears easy. But the mom at home knows the reality is quite the opposite. The discomfort and exasperation that a corporate woman would feel spending her days at home tending to children and household duties is most likely the same discomfort and exasperation a stay-at-home mom would feel functioning in the outside world, away from her children. Each being accustommed to the perks and demands of their particular station in life, not many would decide with full knowledge of the situation, to change places in a moment's notice.
So here we are back to the main question. What is a realistic income for a stay at home mom? Lets see. When you are a stay at home mom there is no handing off a task to someone else to help you do or asking co workers what could be done to make it better. Instead, you are the main counsel. All decision get their final answer from you. There is no outside resources or getting permission from your supervisor or waiting for that important phone call from the major client. Instead all you do revolves around your children. What will they eat, what will they do today, who has practice or dance class, who has a doctors appointment or who has to go see the dentist.
Stay-at-home moms really provide services performed in a multitude of other professions outside the home. From housekeeper, to problem-solver, through cook, hairdresser, waitress, banker, accountant, handyman, the list of services provided are endless. And add on top of all these, the role of wife. In many ways, it's a hands-on learning experience. And each day brings it's own unique set of experiences from which to learn.
Our day as stay-at-home moms begins earlier than most jobs. The attire isn't as luxourious, nor as expensive, but it sure is comfortable for the duties needing to be tended to in the long hours ahead. And that is to say, the duties that actually get performed. Prioritizing is our number one ability. And while there is no timeclock to punch when we begin, there isn't any time to punch out either. Instead of sitting in traffic, we sit in waiting rooms at the doctor's office. Next thing we know, much of what was on the to-do list isn't done, but the hours of the day have evaporated somehow.
In reality, earning additional income while being at home with children and tending to the running of the household is not very practical. Five minutes of attention not devoted to one \"must-do\" or another is rarely found throughout the day. And if the option to earn money from home were as simple as some would have you believe, then certainly most people would opt to remain at home and work. No, there just isn't any feasibility in this idea. All things more important come first, and next on the list comes two minutes to sit and catch one's breath, not concerns over a few random dollars that might be earned instead.
I would venture to say that approximately $15,000 per year would be fitting income for a stay-at-home mom, but of course this would vary depending on the number of children at one's feet daily. And though our personal demands do not include costly fancy coffee that we can barely pronounce, we do have a taste for something special for ourselves from time to time. A new bottle of perfume perhaps, or those slippers our feet have been screaming for...a manicure, or perhaps a new hairstyle. While no amount of money can replace the joy of growing up beside our children, some money couldn't hurt. After all, we're shaping the world's future leaders, from the crib onward. And for that, we deserve a little something extra ourselves. Anyone agree?
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