The stay at home Mother

There has been a lot of hubbub lately about stay at home mothers who have not worked a day in their lives and know nothing about the economy in general. Well my comment to that is, "that's a load of something else."
I'm a stay at home mother and I've been such for over six years, but before I go into that let me tell you about me as a little girl. When I was six years old I was asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. My answer was, A mother. My teacher tried to tell me that it wasn't a suitable career. My mother who by the way has worked every day of her life in the work force and raised three children quickly came to my aid and told that teacher that being a mother was the most noble thing I could do with my life. I always knew that I had my mother by my side and she supported me when I chose to stay home with my children. As did my father who put his career on hold to take care of us when we were little so we would have a parent at home. So now back to me being a stay at home mother. I went to school and took care of our oldest son Joshua. It took me a little longer to earn my degree given I had a very busy baby boy but I did it. As did my husband who also earned his degree in public administration. His passion is politics and he gave me the same passion for our country that he has. I haven't worked a 9-5 job since Joshua was born and that was over six years ago but don't look at me or other mothers and tell us we haven't worked a day in our lives if we have children. Our job is this, to make sure that our children are raised to become contributing and hard working citizens of this country to be physically and spiritually prepared for what ever might come their way. That means a clean home and clean food to eat. That means doing late night home work with a child who may be struggling in school or sleepless  nights with an infant who is teething. That could also mean pretend games on the floor with a toddler. I'm a teacher, nurse, house keeper, cook, friend, counselor, spiritual guider and what ever else they need me to be. I'm also companion to my husband and a partner in our own personal economy in our house hold. I work hard and my income and salary is shown through my children in how they treat others and live their lives. If I can raise my children to become better individuals than I or my husband are then that is worth more than any salary job in the world.

These are my children and their lives and futures are more important than any career I could ever have, and when it is all said and done I can honestly say I am the one who raised them not a stranger from a daycare.