Being A Stay At Home Mom
April 27th, 2007 · Notebook ·
I always knew I’d be a SAHM. Don’t ask me how, I just knew. But it’s a good thing for me, in my opinion. I get to spend time with my little guy, teach him things, raise him to be a good kid, and I never have to leave my comfy clothes. I don’t think someone out in some day care or a preschool could work with him the way I do. Especially with his anger issues. Yes, he’s two years old, and he has anger issues. I completely blame his father. 
And he loves his Thomas and Bob the Builder videos, as well as playing with his cars on his little road mat. He can’t get that at a daycare/preschool either.
I also love that I can semi-work from home as well. I do freelance designs once in a while for people through a friends consulting business. I don’t know, the work world (outside the home) scares me. I’ve been there. People are evil. They can also be evil online, but at least you don’t have to look at them face to face. It could also be that I am extremely anti-social, but that’s a topic for another day. 
I also get most of my work done when Mini Buff is asleep and on weekends when he goes out with Big Buff to his uncle’s house.
But in all, I guess I enjoy my “job”. I really wouldn’t have things any other way.
I'm Jen, and I'm a twenty-five year old WAHM and freelance web designer. This is my personal weblog and mini online collective. Welcome! 
April 27th, 2007 at 11:11 am
“but at least you don’t have to look at them face to face” - The nemesis never works infront of you, but is always hidden…
Ahh, but then again you get to spend the whole day in your jammies
April 27th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Thomas and Bob the Builder is also one of my relatives’ favourite. At least you can enjoy working in the comfort of your home
April 27th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
I think I’ve been living under a rock. Who are Thomas and Bob the Builder?
April 27th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Oh how I remember when my kids were two years old…
Happy TT
April 27th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Bob the Builder looks like a pretty cool guy. I don’t know about that train though. It looks entirely too happy
April 27th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
I think day care would be good and help him work out those anger issues.
Getting a kid involved with other kids early is a good idea. I wish I had. I was a stay at home mom and I think it held them back some socially.
Reply: Well it’s also a matter of money. I can’t afford daycare. If I could, I’d think about it, but…until then…
April 27th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
I hope if I decide to have children that I can be a sahm too! My mom was/is
April 28th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
My son is very shy. I always wonder if he’d be more sociable if he started preschool earlier or went to day care. Still, I wouldn’t change my decision. Every day we: work on letters, go to the park, play a game….when he’s in school full time I’ll miss this time, glad I can treasure it now!
April 28th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
I´m a sahm, too, with a 16 month old who also has anger issues!
I am expecting a second one any day now, and that should change the dynamics around here a bit. Don´t worry about not sending your son to daycare, if you are really worried about socializing him (but he´s only 2!) you can always join a mum´s group, that´s what we did!
April 29th, 2007 at 1:23 am
Ohh it is so great to be a SAHM isn’t. I love it and I so agree with you no one can raise them as I can. I do not want my children to get lost in a sea of 28 other children. You should read Happy Housewives by Darla Shine. It is so good.
April 30th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
There’s nothing quite like it–for awhile!
April 30th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
I’m not a mother, but I do realize the “importance” of raising your own kids, like how Mum raised my sister and I by herself. I like to think that Mum is like our friend, rather than our “Mum”, because we were very close during our growing up years.
She was always at home — preparing meals, doing the dishes, washing the clothes, watching TV with us
I think it is very a very rewarding job, and I’m not sure whether I’d be able to do that when I have my own kids (sometimes I think I’m a workaholic!).
May 1st, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Stay at home or work. Send them to daycare or not. The only thing that really matters is that they know they are loved.
May 14th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Thanks for being part of the Carnival of SAHMs!
July 12th, 2007 at 6:36 am
Hi Jen! I hear you on the points about wanting to be a SAHM, people being evil and my son also loving Thomas the Tank Engine & Bob the Builder. Will be going down the SAHM road soon myself and hope to make some nice friends =)
August 21st, 2007 at 2:36 pm
I completely agree!
August 21st, 2007 at 3:19 pm
I’m right there with you! It is so important for me to be the one teaching my child daily and sharing these early years with him. They are only little for such a short amount of time. I hate when people say your kids are going to have socialization problems because you stay at home. It’s so false.
September 15th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
I’m a SAHM. I don’t work at all at the moment, but that’s because my youngest is only 12 weeks old, and I live in a tiny wee village with no personal transportation to get to the main town and therefore jobs.
I love being around my kids all day, but sometimes I’d love to see beyond these 4 walls and the surrounding countryside (once you’ve seen one tree/rabbit/bush/pinecone you’ve seen ‘em all!).
My eldest is three and a bit. He’s just starting pre school next week (well, had his intro day on friday) at his request. He’s been wanting to go ‘to school’ for a while now. Luckily pre school sessions at the village school are only 9am untill 11.30, so he’s not away from me too long. I’m really going to miss him when he is in school full time
And i’ll miss staying in my slobby indoor clothes all day as I’ll have to get dressed to walk him to school, lol.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
I love being a stay at home Mom. I actually work from home now, too; but it so rewarding! If things keep going the way they are right now, then I will be able to work at home when my little a man hits kindergarten, and he will never have to be a latch keu kid like I was.
Don’t worry, my four year old has anger issues, that I completely blame is father for, too. It gets pretty intense! I’ve already got him screaming, stomping off, and slamming doors like a teenager. I’m actually fearing the teen years.