Dangers
of Being a Working Mom
I’m
thinking from the title, that guilt might have been your first instinct upon
reading this. Don’t hear “guilt” as much
as I want you to hear “healthy.” That
is, the healthiest way to be a Mom who works outside the home and the issues
that come with that. There is joy… and
there are dangers. I want to help you
with the dangers.
My
guess is you always knew that you could never be a stay-at-home Mom. Even though you couldn’t wait to have a child
-- and you loved how the child changed your life -- you knew you would go stir
crazy if you stayed home all day with these precious things you brought into
the world. For some of us, it was a good
thing we had a desire to work because our husband’s salary could not support
your family. That is not a bash on your
husband – you wanted them to follow their passion, their gift, their dream –
but their dream perhaps didn’t pay like you hoped it would. As a result, you entered the workforce. For others, being in the workforce with our
own career was always the option we wanted to pursue. Either way, the challenges of being a
“working Mom” entered our world. And our
world has never been the same.
Take working mom Kalie Carney for example, she's pregnant, works fulltime, and has a 2 year old daughter. She is one of many. To hear more about her story check out the feature local news station KMVT did with her and I here.
