WSJ Stay at Home Mom’s Experienced Labor
Have you heard of companies hiring SWAT Teams (Smart Women Available Time). As in stay at home Mom’s with established professional credentials being hired by companies to solve problems. One thing that we are suppose to do to build or maintain self esteem is according to OSU self-esteem site recommends to “Get involved in activities you love.” For many stay at home parents being able to work would be great for the self-esteem.
1. My question to this concept of SWAT TEAMS, what Mom do you know that has “available time?”
2. I can’t help but question if stories like this further make “stay at home” parents feel that being a “stay at home” parent is not a job. And that if you have these xyz credentials that you should be part of something better, like a SWAT Team.
What is your take on this? Are they just trying to glamorize the concept of “working from home while raising kids” Or as adults do we need to continue activies we love for ourselves outside of our families?
1 response so far ↓
Danielle // May 5, 2008 at 4:38 pm |
I do think that it is important for any person who stays at home to raise children have other activities outside of being a parent. It seems to me that the women in these article have based their self-esteem on their academic and professional successes and that doing the SWAT maintains this aspect of their self-esteem. I really don’t think SWAT diminishes the role of the stay at home mom, I think this is a step in the right direction for women to be able to be successful in any life they choose.