If I hear one more time, in any form, that being a stay-at-home parent puts more pressure and stress on my family than it does good, I will puke fire.  I get told all the time that my children will suffer severe social suicide if I don’t put them into an environment where they are around more children.  Or who is going to teach them the things they need to know before going to school?  I agree that school is where the teaching continues…not where it begins.  I also know that I am far from an idiot.  Therefore, what is wrong with my teaching, since it will my household they are raised in…which means my rules.  I know another fact to be that children that are in daycare get sick twice as much, if not, more than children that are not.  I understand that for some parents to make it, they must utilize the tools given to them, such as daycare.  I do not push my beliefs on anyone about this topic, so I would appreciate others with beliefs to the contrary not push theirs upon me.  So, consider this an open letter to all the parents who say those discriminating things just because you are jealous that I get to nourish and enrich my child’s mind with knowledge, manners, and love each and every day. It is a tough road, any mother will tell you that.  If I were lazy, I would not have chosen to have children.  I feel that a higher power blessed me with two children to raise to be productive members of a continuously harsh, brutal world.  I know not only will my children need to be prepared with mathematics and grammar, but survival and social skills when they journey out away from the nest.  That is why I shall not allow some overweight, redneck heifer to throw books at my kid whilst she screams across the room.  I have taken the tours of these places, and I shall place a bet that the large and in charge big Bertha at the daycare center doesn’t take the time to explain why he should not do the things she is screaming at him for.  And, I bet she doesn’t get paid with the slobbery kisses and sticky hugs that I do.
Stay-at-home moms don’t bring home a paycheck per say, but Dr. Phil quoted on his show today that an engineer that he had spoken to said “A stay-at-home parent has the equivalent of TWO full-time jobs.”  Now, that takes skill, patience, and dedication.  Here is some reading for the ones out there who think that us stay-at-home parents are short-changing our families.  Do your homework before you make statements that will make you appear not as intelligent as my 3 year-old.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194881,00.html