Why be a SAHM?
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Why be a SAHM?
| Tue, 07-03-2007 - 1:15pm |
Hi Ladies!
This is my first time posting here. I am doing a message about motherhood at our church's youth bible camp. I'll be talking with the young girls aged 13-18,I am a SAHM myself and I have tons of reasons why I think it's the best choice for our kids.....but I just wanted to pick your brains and listen to some of your stories and reasons for being a SAHM. Thanks for your time and input!
Dawn
mommy to Jacob/2 and Cassidy/1


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I love being a SAHM. I love being the one to make my son's breakfast/lunch/dinner, making my daughter's bottles and snuggling with her when I feed her, taking them to the park, playing catch, etc. I like being the one who does all that, not have someone else do that for me.
I did work full time for about six months after my son turned six months old and it was exhausting. I would get home at seven at night (after picking my son up from daycare), still have to clean the house, cook dinner, give Noah a bath, put him to bed and catch up on everything else. I felt that I didn't have enough quality time to spend when him. I hated having to wake him up in the morning and take him out of the house - especially when it was cold. I just couldn't hack being a working mom. I didn't like having my sitter tell me all of the things that my son did during the day. Even though he didn't cry or seem to mind going to the sitter's at all, I still felt horribly guilty leaving him there.
Now that I have two babies there is no way I could go back to work. All of my money would go straight to the sitter. I might come home with a few hundred bucks a month and to me that is not worth it.
What exactly are you speaking to the kids at yur church about?
Tarra
Mom to Noah/21 months and Makynzie/2 months
Tarra
mommy to
Noah (10/13/05)
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I think it is great being a SAHM after you have done other things - meaning, I have a college degree and have had several jobs prior to being a SAHM.
I never planned on being a SAHM and to be honest I do not think it is the right choice for everyone.
Also I have way more than one verse to support my "agenda"
Psalms 113:9
Isaiah 66:13
1 Thessalonians 2:7
Deuteronomy 6:5-7
Proverbs 22:6
Titus 2:4-5
Proverbs 31:10-31
This is not any agenda of mine...this is Gods agenda.Not every woman is called to motherhood,however the ones that are have many, many verses to use as their guide in raising their kids.
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