Re: young women yearn for 1950s role as stay-at-home mums
You know...it isn't the sitting at home gossiping. ...
My husband and I have talked about this extensivly...what we will do when we have kids. He worries about me becoming a gossipy aunty sitting at home HOWEVER i worry about the amount of work/stress i have now and knowing how hard I work...and how little time i have after work, how that will effect my capacity to be a great mom.
I really want to make sure i have the time to be a great mom, spend it with my kids when they are really young, read, play which will help them be more intelligent but also feel emotionally secure...
I also want to cook good foods, be healthy with them and active..and thinking about work and my life now i realizes to do the above with kids means going part time or taking time off for a while when the kids are young.
It is hard...a huge sacrifice that i'm having a hard time with but i realize that when i envision my life and kids...I don't want to be the tired stress bucket I am when I get home ....
So yes I believe you can't have it all...and i think its totally great that women today feel that they can and know they have the option.
Here's to happiness whatever anyone decides...