S A H M

(Stay At Home Mom)

Experiencing the smiles, cries, yawns, joys, pains, blessings and all the other big and little things that goes with motherhood....there's nothing like it....indeed, "Children are an heritage from the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is His reward." Psalms 127:3

I am a SAHM and I'm happy to be one.  Sometimes I still get a raised eyebrows every time I tell them I'm a Stay At Home Mom, as if there's something wrong with me.

Our postmodern society tells us to go out of our home, leave our children with a 16year old babysitter, climb the corporate ladder, and be successful.

A special U.S. commission consisting of authorities on child development made a report called Code Blue, concluded: "Never before has one generation of teenagers been less healthy, less cared for or less prepared for life." 

This busyness of mothers means that too often, there is nobody home!  The father is at work, and the babysitter is out chatting with her colleagues or maybe sitting in the coach with her eyes glued on TV.

Children, specially between 0-5 years old may look like fine with temporary babysitters, but God designed them to link emotionally with a mother and a father and to develop securely within the protection of their arms.

I'm not suggesting that all mothers quit their job and stay home. Just staying at home is not the answer, we could be there all the time and yet not be able to influence them, teach and discipline them the way we should.  Before leaving home and going to work, before doing all the chores and errands let's think a million times about our responsibility in nurturing and raising our children the way God wants us to be.  Am I doing good to my children?

Happy Mother's Day!




Bringing Up Boys Dr. James Dobson