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Charcos

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Order food online in Leeds! It's so easy to use, fast and convenient. Try our new, online website...

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Do you like finding great deals and saving money? Weekly Ads & Sales app helps you do just that!...

99 Skills To Soccer Ball Mastery

Sports and Education

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Coerver Coaching, the world’s number one soccer skills teaching method will improve your soccer...

AliExpress Shopping App

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Ever wanted to shop everything in one place, at one time? We’ve created just the app for you! With...

The Lean Supply Chain: Managing the Challenge at Tesco

Barry Evans and Robert Mason

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This book explores how Tesco grew under a determined supply chain strategy to achieve their dominant...

Rachel King (13 KP) rated In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms in Books

Feb 11, 2019

As a stay-at-home mom myself, partly by choice and partly by default, I didn't realize how much I needed the lift this book provided until I finished it. While SAHMs are gaining in support, thanks to the wonders of the internet, the effects of the feminist movement are hard to undo, and I still find myself feeling bad for not "running the hamster wheel."
This book is really about praising and uplifting SAHMs in every way, from giving advice on how to transition from working outside the home to becoming a SAHM, how to deal with naysayers, the impact of being a SAHM on the marriage, the children, and the woman herself, and the struggles that a SAHM goes through. Nearly every page features quotes from SAHMs who have contacted Dr. Laura with their opinions, experiences, questions, and wisdom, and these women all have unique living situations to fit any mother's lifestyle, even the ones who have been through a divorce because the husband does not support the idea of the woman becoming a SAHM. Dr. Laura dispels many notions and myths that run rampant about the type of woman that decides to be a SAHM, and what would make her choose such a lifestyle. Many of the women she quotes have college degrees or left great careers to become a SAHM. Others go on to degrees and careers once the children have grown and "fled the nest." Some of the best parts of the book were the stories that SAHMs related about the wonderful perks and unforgettable moments of being a SAHM, such as being able to cook healthy meals from scratch for their family and not missing all of those important milestones with their children.
This book helped me to change my perspective on my role in my family's life, as the heart of the home, to focus on the good things of what I have committed to, and to appreciate my husband and children, not as sandbags on my own personal improvement, but as buoys to lift me up and save me from my own destructive self-involvement.