To my Conservative Friends:When my beautiful wife (I upgraded) and I got married 16 years ago, we talked a lot about our future children. We decided to raise them in a loving, catholic, conservative household. We would teach them values, manners and respect. Today they are 11 and 7 and I could not be more proud and blessed to have two such beautiful children inside and out.
As everyone, we have made mistakes in our lives, but the best decision we ever made was deciding to have my wife stay at home to have the primary role of raising the kids... Notice I didn't say "not work", because work it is... We made the decision that, even though it would be better financially to have us both bring home a pay check, the emotional and social benefits to our children would far exceed any financial gain...
We have not been perfect, but I think we (mostly my wife) have done an outstanding job!!! Kudos to you sweetheart, you have really done a self-less, amazing job raising our 2 children...
So, why does the stay-at-home Mom get zero respect from a majority of the public, including news articles, magazine publications, commentators and media in this country??? I have no problem with Mothers who choose to work (most have no choice). But there is a hidden, unspoken oh-so subtle resentment or disdain a lot of people have towards the stay-at-home Mom and I would just like to know why???
Let's just review a couple of incidents where they stay-at-home Mom has been dis-respected:
* We can all remember the Shrillary "Cookies" comment prior to her "Husband" getting elected in 1992:
And the media loves to promote fake, phony fraud Mothers with insulting awards that are an absolute abomination to real Mothers....
* Case in point - A New York organization (surprise) called "Mingling Moms" (Yeah - I'm sure their priority is the kids!!!) had the audacity to name Dina Lohan their Mother of the Year - I shi- you not.... Complete with dinner, plaque and photo-shoot to add to the mockery!!!No need to verify the picture, the story is legit... Don't believe me click here and read all the pathetic details..
BTW - Don't you love when the woman who have the morals of gutter rats and have not been to church in years wear the cross like they are some sort of Eucharistic Minister!!!
And I can go on and on about the libs lauding some phony celebrity Mother as some saint, but what is the point... The question is why do they do this and why don't we, as conservatives make a stronger, louder case as to who the true Mothers are.. The ones that actually sit down with their kids and help them with their homework and read to them before bed... These are the Moms (and Dads) that actually sacrifice their time and attention so their kids can learn and grow into well educated and grounded teenagers and young adults. This way they can they pass these traits and behaviors onto their children for a better America...
And we don't just see this disrespect in the media and Holly-weird, we see it among working mothers as well. We know a lot of working mothers who choose to work, but financially do not have to. That is fine, it is their choice. However, we see a lot of these mothers not care to take an active role in their children's development because they are so bizzy with their careers and friends that taking care of Kid-stuff bores them...
So I ask them - "Why did you want to have children in the first place???" Just to say you have them... And for people to say - "Oh, look at her, she works and has 3 kids... How does she do it??" Well the answer is most often - She doesn't do it well. We see these type of mothers often want to set up "play-dates" when they are around and leave their kids' care to others anyway... We call these "Mothers", Dump and Runners....
All I want is honesty here... These type of Mothers are not good for the kids... They know it down deep, but will never admit it... It is not PC to. For the rare ones that do both well and committ to both, my kudos to you.... But I have seen too many that want their career and adult social life, so the kids take a back seat.... And that is fine. Just don't pretend that these are Mothers of the year. Because to Mothers that dedicate their entire lives to their kids and make that their priority, it's an insult...
Raising children is a full-time job and requires a lot of attention.... It is a time-consuming, sometimes thankless mundane life. So why is not respected more and applauded? Is it jealousy? Pity? Loathing? I am not really sure, but I am sure about one thing... Mothers like my wife have the most important job in the world, raising happy, healthy, well-adjusted children.
My job of making money is child's play in comparison...
Just my thoughts....
GOP Mike
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Hear hear!!! More of this, please! (I had a similar post here.
Hey GOP Mike, you need to be more carefull because if you keeping talking conservative the GOP is going to censor you because they want a "big tent" for everybody to join.
There are those of us that are working moms, and still make the scrafices for their children- read them plenty of books at night, help with the homework and teach them all the values.
I personally know plenty of "stay at home moms" that actually spend less time with their children than I do working.
It's about what each family wants to put into their family. No how they do it.
Amazinsly Hillary even fakes a country accent for that tripe about cookies
For those Moms who work and are still dedicated Moms... My hats off to you!!!
My point being was that I see more of the Mom's who are not as dedicated as you obviously are....
Most of the Moms I see never read to the kids....
Good for you...
Its all fun and giggles, until one of the two gets killed in, say, a car accident, and the other one realizes that she has no experience of the work reality, and/or an already in place cv/references/network and at most would have to start at 0
But let it up to conservatives to "plan for the future" as long as they can keep some supposed 1920 image of "family properness" in their heads.
I really don;t know how to comment on the last post Anonymous...
Are you saying that Moms should not stay at home in case Dad dies in an accident and Mom's blackberry won't have any business contacts???
Real good reason to not provide a good, stable traditional home...
For the libs - its always about them....
And your comment mocking trying to keep an image of Family Properness is also out there as well..
What is wrong with trying to have a traditional family as opposed to the one that I suppose you and your lib friends would want:
Single parent households with no structure, kids who talk-back, don't listen, I-pods in their heads, parents who don't care what their kids do - Yeah a liberal heaven...
No thanks - I'll keep striving to have that traditional family image for my family... And even if it falls short, it will be a hell of a lot better than the flop houses libs would want to raise their kids in...
If we keeping getting mocked by the libs for our beliefs, we are on the right track....
GOP Mike
"Real good reason to not provide a good, stable traditional home..."
Thought so. Although personally the double wage income household with double the savings and security capability is a sexy one as well.
Yep, thats "double" btw, since, unlike what your propagandistic wanna be scenarios want to be made up of, most "liberal" households are two parent as well.
Kids with Willpower and Self-determination (talk back for conservatives) or taking advantage of technology (satanic ipod thingies for conservatives) are not considered a minus either.
*Car stops at the edge of the road, and creepy figure comes out going towards a kid. He says in a strong voice: "get into the car kid"*
Conservative Kid: "Yes sir".
Liberal Kid: "Fuck you"
*starts reaching for his mobile phone*
Ah, the wonders of spineless obedience...
Again, liberals think conservatives are idiots and the talk-back, foul mouth libs are soooo intelligent...
Your arguments are weak and pathetic...
And watch your mouth - I don't want to have to start deleting comments...
But if the site becomes a haven for liberal smack talk, I will...
GOP Mike
*ticks in a notepad*
One whine about being "foul mouthed" (from the guy whining about Political correctness)
Some foul mouthing ad-hominems (from the guy whining about foul mouthiness)
One threat of force (censorship)
Oh, I feel myself getting convinced riiiight now, by all those eloquent points.
There are lots of liberal stay-home moms - I'm one. I'm a lawyer and I was working in my dream job, but once my son came along, I couldn't leave him. Now we have three kids, and I love being home with them.
I recognize that I'm really lucky to have this choice, though. There are lots of women who have to work in order for their kids to have health benefits, for example, or who work to provide a higher family income so the family can live in a better school district. Those women shouldn't be slammed for what must be a very difficult decision.
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