Why Moms Should Stop Fooling Themselves About the False Stay-at-Home Choice and What They Can Do Instead
Look at the real choice.
I’m back, but I’m not sure if I’m really back. Turns out it’s not my choice anymore.
Having choices feels liberating. Except when they’re not real choices.
When you’re forced to decide between being a stay-at-home mom and returning to work yet none of it feels right, is that still a choice?
I’ve been working full-time ever since I was 20. At one point, I became a freelancer and started to work from home. Or literally from anywhere.
So, almost a decade into my writing career, I felt confident enough to have children knowing I won’t jeopardize my previous hard work in any way. Only I didn’t know.
Enter freelance parenting
I was sure I could rock it as a freelance writer who worked from home and stayed home with my child.
I was going to be a freelance parent. I was just a fool.
Nothing can prepare us for parenting. With children, you can never know what you’re going to get. And if there’s one thing parents-to-be desperately need to know, is that they should put aside any kind of expectation.
