How to Be a Better Stay at Home Mom: Revisiting the 1950's

How to be a Good Stay at Home Mom (revisiting the 50s)

Some women choose to stay home and take care of their children, even if only for the first few years. This is a bigger deal for our generation, because women not only have the right to work, they are expected to work.

Do whatever works for you in your relationship!

These guidelines are to display that there should be no blurry lines as to who should do what. If you choose to stay at home and stick him with all the bills, expect problems! These guidelines are to help you avoid those problems and keep your relationship a strong, healthy partnership.

How would you feel if you were the only one working, and your spouse or significant other stayed home everyday, with no intention of finding a job? All the bills are piling up; and especially with a child it seems as though there are even more bills. Your entire pay check goes to bills, and you get no help at all covering them. There is never any money left to enjoy as a reward for all your efforts.

How would that make you feel?

It may go unspoken, but with the financial standards raised to require a double income in order for survival, the decision for the woman to not work can leave a lot of stress on the man.

Know Your Role!

If you find any offense at all to this title, then you should avoid the decision to be a stay at home anything! Revisit the earlier example and add these following elements.

Although you don't have any help with the bills, you come home everyday to a clean house and a nice, hot, home cooked dinner. Afterwards, you are given a beer (or cup of coffee) and a half hour to an hour to unwind and relax in front of the TV.

You never have to worry about the paperwork involved with paying bills, or any other unpleasant house related chore. Your spouse or significant other takes care of all that for you as well.

Now how would that make you feel?