Pen Name Jane
Stay-At-Home Mom is Not the Hardest Job in the World
Just because motherhood is hard doesn't mean it's a career — after all, there's no retirement, and the pay is terrible — so stop comparing it to other jobs.
Oprah used to state — when the subject came up — that stay-at-home mom was the hardest job in the world. Each time those words left her mouth, it felt, to me, insincere, like she knew she had to say them but what she wanted to say was, “Seriously? I work 18 hours a day, I run a zillion businesses, I own a school and I’m responsible for hundreds of people’s livelihoods, and someone who is home, at this very moment, watching TV, in the MIDDLE of the day, has the hardest job in the world?” And one of her employees, with a mic on their head and a clipboard in their hands, would say, “Remember who your audience is.” And Oprah would sigh and repeat the words. Those words “the hardest job in the world” feel disingenuous to me no matter whose …
Katie Malone
6:32 pm on Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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