To be a full-time mother or a Career mother?

I am a full time mother, but I also work out of the house. If you were to ask me today~ I might choose being a career mom because my kids are driving me crazy right now!! In general, I do think that being a full time mother is better for the children. This way your kids are raised with the values and morals we have as a family. The kids that are put in daycare are taught these things by strangers.

i always wanted to be a full time mom, and my husband back up my decisions, but i dont mind, he too, if i go back working again, and yes, being with your kid all the time you'll have better influence to them, and think about being there in all your kid's "first".

Right now I am a stay at home mom. I have worked though also. I feel that you can do both that in the end it is what you do with your children when you are home that matters. If you work and cannot leave your work at work or you are to tired to spend quality time with the children when you get home that is where there might be some problems. But I see nothing wrong with being a mother and wanting a fulfilling career outside of the home also.

I think that being a full time mother would have a much greater influence on your children because you will see to it that your childrens needs are well taken of so the children feels secured snd loved. Although having part-time jobs is good too, I'm also looking for a homebased work so that while being with my baby, Im earning something.

We also prefer that I be a full time mom. Our reason is that we had seen children of our friends who had suffered from the hands of their nanny, we just felt we cannot allow our child to be in that position. I believe having a full time mom as a parent does affect the psych of the child but sometimes there are those who are not really affected. I guess it is the way the child is brought up.

I am full time mother for now. It was because i finished my study 3 years ago still not working. As ling as i sit at home there are many new things i learned. Housewife is a job.

My husband and I have disccused it may times if I should go back to work. We have decided that staying home would be better for our daughter. We still need extra money so we hve taken an alterniate route and I am in direct sales now. I sell Mary Kay and because of owning my own business I can work when it is good for us. Which is when he is home with our daughter. We don't think she should be in day care at such an early age. (7months)

Being a single mother, I really had no choice in the matter. I think that it could work well either way, however in our case I think that my children would have benefited much more from having me at home with them more often. I also would have benefited more because I feel that I missed out on a lot of the time I would have liked to spend with them, and although we spent time together when I was home, I was often too tired to enjoy some of the things we did together.

it is very okay to be a full time mum. Did you know the best thing to spend on children is time?

Hi wykidd, My wife was working before I married her. She continued her job after marriage also. Subsequently when my daugher born, she was on leave for six months. After six months she again joined the employment leaving my daughter with AYYA (baby sitter). This way my daughter was brought upto the age of 7 years. From age of 7 she started looking after herself. To run the family it was our necessity that my wife had to work. Financial necessity made my wife to continue her job even after birth of my daughter otherwise she would have left the employment. One thing I realised later that mother's love and affection is needed for a child till they reach the age of 7 or 8 so that, by that time, they understand why his mother going to employment. Why mothers are going to employment leaving the children due to financial necesity otherwise no mother would go for job leaving their children at home.

I have done both and both are equally rewarding and very difficult in many different aspects. I do work part time now and try to handle the house while my hubby is away and it is a full time job within itself. So, to me I think either way, kids adapt to their environment and I don't think they suffer more or less from a career mother or a full time mother. I know I have been both and for most of my daughters life I was a career mom and she is a good kid, well mannered, she talks to me about her problems, she helps with the house, she has learned a great deal of responsibility and I can trust her to help me when the going gets tough. I think all in all, I did a pretty good job. But I am glad to be able to spend more time with her now just working part time and being a stay at home mom more often.

Personally I've found that being a stay at home mom has opened up many more options money wise than before. Now, I am free to work online for money when my little girl is taking a nap or after she goes to bed. Most times I do surveys and paid blogging. Some months, I earn more money than I did before working part time outside the home. Ironic, that having a child could also improve my financial status too. Life is good, don't you think?!!!

I was a career mother for 1-1/2 years. I have been a stay at home mom for 2 years now. Some days I do wish I had a job to go to but most of the time I love my "job". It is definitely the hardest job ever but it was hard for me to work and still feel like a mother. You should do what feels right for you. If you think getting a job would make you feel better than do that. Just check into childcare or figure out if your husband will watch the children while you work.

I choose career mother. Our life today is very different from the past. Nowadays, the mother should also work to give her family a better future. But she must not forget her responsibilites as a mother, i mean, although working, she must stil have time for her child. MOthers must find time for her family for a bonding relationship in order to have a happy family and avoid the conflict.

my friend and i just got into talking about that a week ago because a lot of the moms we know just leave their kids with their nannies or with their babysitters. some of these babysitters turn out to be negative influences on their children and they would not be aware of this until the kid learns on these unpleasant manners and manifests what he/she had learned from the one companion he/she has and that would be his/her nanny. so we thuoght that being a stay home mom in itself is a really huge career because you have a lot to attend to. raising children is not a small task. we know a few moms who both work and still find the time to watch their kids and we call them "power moms" and i believe you can be a power mom yourself. but even they get tired because it's really taxing to go to work and then hurry home to attend to the kids and all. if you feel like you will have the energy to do both then by all means be that power mom we're talking about. but really, being a stay home mom is a huge career in itself. a noble one at that coz not all women turn out to be great moms.

im a full time mum now, i used to work before but child care cost and worries made me stop, my partner does not mind working, and i dont mind being at home.... my children are 6 and 4 and when they finish school i love hearing about there day at school what they have learnt, and sitting down going through school stuff with them, these years are precious and if i missed them id regret it, i try to make some cash and save cash some stuff is on my new blog page if anyone wants to have a look!! This blog is 'MY" time so stuff i do when im being louise or loopy lou 2406 and not mum lol.... http://louise-clix2cash.blogspot.com