stay at home moms should get paid!

if you were truly on bed rest you wouldn't be cooking and cleaning. your husband who 'TAKES VERY GOOD CARE OF YOU" would do it for you so that you could be on best rest and have a healthy child for the both of you. and i know there are lazy mothers and i guess thats why stay at home moms don't get paid. and it wouldn't be fair for the lazy mothers who don;t care for their kids to get paid. i just think that if you are going to stay home (by choice or not) then it is your job to take care of your own children. nanny's and babysitters shouldn't be raising your kids you should (not talking about you, just in general). i know that not everyone has the luxury to stay at home. i know alot of parents that have to put thier kids in child care and work in order to make their bills. it;s just too hard to determine which moms are really caring for their kids and who are laying around the house watching t.v. but thanks for bringing it up, i hadn't thought about that

also i read some of your disuccions you started and in another one you said you are a single parent. if you are single then how do you have a man? if you aren't married or in a serious relationship this discussion is not for you.

exactly, when one parent stays home to care for the kids the "working" parent should be paid extra. i think if more moms or dads stayed home and watched their own children then there wouldn't be so many wild kids these days

Oh sorry to say I don't believe the working parent should be paid more i just think his wage should be split, prople can make a choice to have children if companies had to pay extra because people had kids then I think there would be a lot more unemployment, they could not do it....sorry,

exactly!!! if i started working now to bring in extra money, we'd be paying more out to daycare just so i could work. to me that's just stupid. i do have days when my kids tell me thank you for cleaning this or thank you for doing that and it makes me feel great. but then there are people who think i am lazy and don't want to work. but the think is that i do want to work, but not just to pay the daycare. and a good daycare cost money and i definately am not gonna leave my children with one of the cheaper daycares. i've had the opportunity to see these daycares and the children aren't cared for very well and it's hard to find someone you can trust to watch in your home. i'm one of those people who doesn't like strangers in my house. with the world today you never know what could happen. i know my kids are safe with me. if i did work, then i would still have to come in and cook, clean, do laundry, feed the animals, etc. so really it would be another job on top of being mom and wife.

thanks for the comment. mabey someday it'll happen. until then all we can do is hope things will change and keep living.

i have to do everything. if i don't do it then who will? i do take the time out to get on the internet and check email and occassionally play on winster.com. doing the same thing everyday gets old and boring, but kids definately change things up everyday. one day their good, another day they be acting up and causing trouble. it's the hardest job you could ever have and there's no pay.

exactly! i feel that staying at home with my children makes them better people in the long run. i too would like to be able to go out and spend a little money on myself. but i'd rather spend my little bit of money on things my children need. my mother used to say that she sacrificed herself for us (my mom had 9 children). now i understand exactly what she means. mabey one day things will be different. i'm not saying that we should get paid the money for all jobs we do, just a little extra would be a big help.