The way in which moms choose to raise their kids is always sparking debate in some way, shape, or form. Some moms decide to work while raising children, balancing both the job of a mother and having a career. Other moms stay home raising their children, which is a job within itself. Whatever you do, whether working or staying at home, it all comes down to how you want to raise your kids.
Moms who work while raising children have a multitude of reasons as to why.
Some moms enjoy working outside of the home while others need to work to make sure they can put food on the table. Some, often times, decide to work due to a combination of both wanting to and needing to.
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Regardless, it doesn’t take away from the fact that they are also fantastic moms.
Just because a mother is also a career woman and working, does not mean that she is not a good mom. Many working moms are still hands-on and involved in their children’s lives.
No matter how good of a mom you are, you will always have critics.
Many people are constantly shaming moms who work outside of the home, saying that they don’t dedicate themselves as much as stay-at-home moms do. But, of course, this isn’t the case.
It’s almost as though working moms get a bad reputation just for having jobs.
No matter what they do, moms can’t win unless they are at home 24/7. It’s unfortunate that they get such a bad reputation, despite actually knowing how they parent their children.
The perfect example can be seen via a Facebook post shared by Sanctimommy.
The comment reads:
“”Working mothers have it easy. They’ve systematically slowed their children’s development by sending them to daycares and formula feeding. And they get to go to work without their children all day. That sounds like the dream!
The comment also said, it’s “not parenting.”
It continued to say:
“It’s not parenting! It’s like parenting in your spare time after work … I stay at home with my daughter. I can’t imagine sending my child away to strangers while I go to work. (At 22 months she has the language of an average 5-year-old by kinder testing).”
Many moms began to debate with this comment on Facebook.
Some moms said that there’s absolutely “no evidence” that working moms “damage” their children.
One read:
“I have a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience and can confidently state there is no empirical evidence that children whose mothers work, or formula feed, perform any differently on cognitive assessments than children whose mothers stay at home.”
Other moms said that the Facebook user was giving working moms “too much credit.”
Someone else said:
“Don’t give working moms all the credit. Us SAHM are more than capable of damaging our children’s development.”
Regardless if you stay at home and raise your kids or work and raise your kids, there’s no correlation between that and their development.
Most moms on Facebook were clear — there’s no correlation between working moms and their kid’s development. But, as a mom, you know that no matter what you do, you’ll get shamed.
