I Quit My Corporate Career To Become A Stay At Home Mom (SAHM)
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2024
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In this video I talk about the process of going from career woman and full time working mother to stay at home mother. I speak of the beautiful transformation that can often start with fears due to a big identity shift, or our own conditioning as women about our role in the world. Has it been worth it?
I hope it's insightful and I hope that it helps someone out there with their own transition from working to stay at home mother.
#family #motivational
Thank you for sharing - it's hard for women these days, you really are 'expected' to work full time, and mother, and cook and clean, and be a good wife... Exhausting.
Very true! I think it’s no wonder so many women often feel depleted, exhausted, torn left and right, and like a shell of a woman, doing many full time jobs at once.
I loved listening to your story. So beautiful how God reached you in this season of life. As a former elementary teacher I can relate to feeling like there is no other way. But when I had my baby girl I just couldn't go back. And I believe it is the best decision we have made as parents. Thank you so much for sharing your story. 🙏☺️
Thank you so much for the support and encouragement. The best decision indeed! ❤
Thanks for your video. I used to be an architect and now I’m a SAHM of 7 😅
Oh wow, I bet it makes your job as an architect look like a cake walk! But seriously, congratulations, it’s such a beautiful thing to be present with our kids!
Hello! Inspired stranger here! I’m an architect and trying to plan my future, thinking about how I’d make having a family work. Becoming an architect is such a huge life achievement, do you ever miss it? How were you able to make the transition to SAHM? :-)
@@sandrakolacz3654 hubby and I met at university so we both were architects which helps. We started our own practice shortly after registration and getting married so my transition from full time work to SAHM was slow. If you want to chat further my husband has a channel @heisesays and you can contact me through that
@@NivesScott honestly it’s the other way around 🤣 it’s a lot of work at home, but way less stressful.
@@sandrakolacz3654 hubby and I met at uni and is also an architect so that makes it much easier for us and it means I can jump in and help him if he is overloaded with work. The identity struggle to be ok with being a mum has been a lot and taken me a long time to adjust as becoming an architect is a very consuming pursuit. The more kids we have had the easier it has been. Having 3 kids was the hardest to balance but once #4 came along I gave up and started homeschooling 🤣 our kids are the best part of life and an investment in our future.
Loved listening to your video. It's very inspiring. Your giving your girls an amazing childhood.
You are so kind! ❤️
You're so inspiring! It's refreshing to hear how beautiful and important staying home with our kids is vs. the boss girl theme we're so used to hearing!
Thank you so much Fareena. Raising the next generation is the most important work!
Just had a conversation with my sister who has a 6 months baby girl and she got very defensive when I talk to her about staying at home and maybe not going back to work in September ( in Europe we get a lot of time to spend with babies after birth.) I think she is scared of asking her partner for financial support or maybe she knows she won’t get it. They live under the same root but are not married ( probably not sharing bank accounts or anything) I wish more men would understand how important it’s for mothers to be at home during newborn and toddler times. Thanks for sharing this
My heart goes out to the mothers who wish to stay at home with their babies but feel that they can’t, or they are unable to. It’s such a common longing that we often push aside and convince ourselves is not the way to go, or is an impossibility. Raising the next generation is THE most important work in my opinion, and unless both people in the couple think of it that way, leaving the work force to stay at home would be nearly impossible.
I think in the past we lived with extended family much more. My grandparents lived with us when I was a kid for example (I'm 35). This gave balance to mothers. My parents help watch our son two days and we have a nanny at the house three days. I work from home as well but my job is pretty flexible. I don't start until after 930 and am typically finished with my work by 430. I stop up for lunch with my son and the nanny (who's awesome). I agree that being a mother has boosted my creativity and given me meaning that I could not conceive of prior. I feel blessed to have the balance I have at the moment. I'm curious what % of your household income you brought in. I'm bringing in just under half but we also get insurance through my job and max out or retirement and HSA contributions through my job. We could make it on my husband's income if we didn't have our high maintenance dogs (2 king Charles cavalier spaniels) and really lowered retirement contributions and health savings account contributions
First of, thank you for sharing such a thoughtful response! Absolutely regarding the extended family! Before we came to Canada my grandma was my caregiver when my mom returned to work, and as she got a job out of town, it meant I was on my grandparents farm 5 days a week and only saw my parents on weekends. and my aunts and uncles who were much younger than my mom also lived under her roof so i was well taken care of. That said i still missed my mom dearly and cried myself to sleep nearly every night. So in terms of finances, i was in a very similar situation to you. I brought in just under half, and health insurance (but I’m Canadian so a lot is public), was also under me as my husband is self employed, and a pension fund so i did forgo of a significant amount and benefits, zero doubt about that! But we are making it work, and i honestly couldn’t picture our life without this sacrifice, a life of not homeschooling my kids. I love that you have balance of family & work life, it’s so important, sounds like the dogs are more work than kids 😅!