Moms, Let's Play Nice

I would never want to spark a Work Outside the Home Mom (WOHM) vs. Stay At Home Mom (SAHM) debate, because the battle is emotionally charged, super touchy and always ugly. Besides, I don't have space to store all those soapboxes anyway.

In a fantastic recent article on Yahoo Shine, Mommy Tracked discussed how working mothers are referred to by some as "Weekend Mothers". As a working mother, I can assure you that nothing about my devotion to my children is part-time. Further, the stereotypes that surround the Stay At Home Mom are equally ignorant. Neither the SAHM or the WOHM have it easier, they just have it different.

We have all made choices. We have all made sacrifices. We are all mothers.

Seems to me we are more similar than different.

And really, whether we work outside or inside the home, we are all working to raise smart, socially responsible and kind children who possess the values we personally hold dear.

So to the sensational media, the misinformed and the moms with their dukes up, I say this:
Let's stop all this madness and just play nice; our moms taught us better than this.

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