The world has a very
negative view of homemakers, particularly, of their brains. Because no degree is required to be a
homemaker, people tend to think that every woman who chooses to stay home with
her children, does so because she is too stupid to do anything else. In other words, she cannot hack it in the
real world and therefore she settles for being a stay-at-home mom. As homemakers, we know this; we know how we
are viewed and we know how little our brains are esteemed. We all get the question, “do you work?” or “what
else do you do?”. No, it doesn’t take a brain surgeon to do this job, but that
doesn’t mean that I am dumb. But does it really matter?
When we choose to
stay home and not enter into the working world, or in some cases, to leave the
working world, our pride takes a hit. We
want people to know that we are smart.
We want people to know how good we were at our jobs, or how well we
would have done if we had chosen to pursue a given profession. We want to be
respected. In some ways, this is the
hardest thing to give up when we choose to stop working. Beyond a grateful
spouse and children, there are no accolades for doing the laundry, again, or
dusting the house, again, or cleaning the bathroom, again. We want to be
respected, but we don’t need to be.
Perhaps this is just another sacrifice that we can make. We must
sacrifice our pride, not worry about what the world thinks of us or how smart
people think we are, and just continue to do our job to the best of our
ability.
“The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It
needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know
how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough
women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need women, and men, too,
who would rather be morally right than socially correct.”
― Former U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall 1940's
― Former U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall 1940's
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