Stay at Home Mothers Should Get Paid

i think if we did get paid for it then there would be a lot more stay at home moms and maybe even dads, but paying us would really put some one in the whole because our job is a 24/7 job it never ends unless we are asleep so someone would go broke and be put in the whole from paying us to take care of the house and kids and stuff.but i do like your way of thinking

Amen to that lelin! I've been a stay at home mom for almost nineteen years! I haven't worked for thirteen. Last year at Christmas, I tried to get a seasonal job but didn't even get an interview. And of course, now there are so many people unemployed that there's no way they'll hire me now. Most people think that mothers have no skills outside the family. But what is our job exactly? we are cooks, cleaners, managers and taxi drivers, just to name a few. And I even applied to a craft retailer because I do them at home almost daily. But they don't appreciate that. So that's why I am on mylot and other paying sites trying to subsidize our income in this economic crunch. although, it takes time, unfortunately.
Mothers are underappreciated by their families but also by the outside world. And after all, aren't we the ones who made our kids who they are so they can go out and work in the world? This issue is definitly a peeve of mine too.

Back three years ago. THere's a site that try to calculate the salary of a full time and stayhome Mom annually. Ready for it: it's $186,000/ year
based on all stay home mom duties, cooking, cleaning, child care, etc ...That our slary should be yearly!

I definitely agree that being a full time parent is a tolling job, but I don't think it should be one that makes a paycheck. If mother's became stay at home moms it would go back to how things were before women's liberation, except for the single woman.

What I do think is that they should open up an agency that helps stay at home parents find stay at home jobs that they can fit into their lifestyle. This would be beneficial on multiple levels instead of instituting another tax to pay stay at home parents.

I don't know... I am a stay at home mom myself. It is not easy, some days it is mentally trying as well financially. My reward and incentive is knowing at the end of the day I have taken good care of my kids and I am raising intellegent, well rounded children with good morals and values. Lets face it, we are the ones deciding to have children. If we were paid an hourly rate for staying home with our own kids, a job we can not clock out for, what sort of values and restraints are we giving ourselves and our children? Do we stop taking care of the home and family after eight hours? Knowing how financilly difficult it is to be a stay at home mom, my husband And I still decided to have this life. I think being a stay at home parent is more and more understood, accepted, and respected.

Here in our country there are good mom's who does that to their kids and grand children free of charge. As long as they like it. Its really nice when they do it, all you got to do is make sure that your kids expenses are on you.

Wont it be weird if we get paid for doing such because it is our family and as a mom it is our responsibility to take care of our kids regardless of how busy we are? If we will get paid we are already like a maids... maids are paid to do this kinds of job like laundry, cleaning house, caring for babies, preparing foods. If we accept the payment then what pride can we uphold that we took care of our kids?

This is just my opinion...

if stay at home Moms got paid for they had to do they would be rich.i saw on tv one time they adding all the things she would do and how much it would pay it was a lot of money i forgot the amount but it was a lot.i never was a stay home mom i had to work but i really had good child care and the day care taught them a lot too.

I'm inclined to agree with you there. If we mothers were paid for all the hours we put in we'd be worth in excess of $200,000 pa. Course, that's just a rough estimate. The hours after giving birth. The 24/7 call-outs for everything from a broken thumbnail to "the boyfriends left me!!!". We're nurse, doctor, pshychiatrist, friend, lover, interior designer - the list goes on. So I figure we deserve a little compensation for all that. Don't you?

At the other end of the scale, we have to remember, it is a path many of us have chosen and love. So I suppose, doing it out of love has a lot to be said for it too.

Hi friend,

I have thought of that for years. I also have three grown children. But thats what has happened to our children, other people taking care of them, and just for the money. Most of them don't really care what happens to their futures.

Yes, moms should have been paid from day 1, child 1.

Cheryl

Well it really depends on what kind of our moms they are . My mother helped to raise my niece for 6 years and she really enjoyed to do it . She didn't care about the payment . In our country grandmothers are supposed to take care of their grandsons and most of them do . They live with their sons and grandsons so i don't think they get regularly get paid. Of course some nice sons would give some extra money to their moms for her help.