Thursday, July 18, 2013

Misconceptions About Stay-At-Home-Moms [UBC Post 16]

I have been a Marketing professional for over 5 years before I had baby. So, I know what it means to be a working individual as well as a Stay-at-Home-Mom (since I am one now). There are several misconceptions or assumptions about Stay-at-Home-Moms, which may be funny or irritating depending on your mood.



Let me clear out a few at least.


10 comments:

  1. Very well written. There are some issues about which people seem to make very ridiculous assumptions about the choices of what they consider "the other side":

    1) Indians staying on in the west/returning to India [I am always amazed at the amount of stereotypical generalizations made about both]

    2) Stay-at-home-moms/"working" moms

    3) Couples with/without children

    4) Speaking to your children at home in English/any Indian language

    But, assumptions made in (2) are particularly bizarre.
    Even seasoned writers like Chetan Bhagat do this. Check out the following article:
    http://sakshinanda.blogspot.in/2013/05/oh-chetan-bhagat-read-what-you-write.html

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    1. Hey thank you so much, and double thank you for taking time to comment at both the places :-)

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  2. hahahaha.. put out very well Reema... and i loved the picture that you posted :) :) ..

    It is very difficult for people to believe that staying at home can be out of choice but that does not mean these women are whiling away their time ...

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    1. I love these memes, don't you? They are super-hilarious. Staying at home with a young kid is a fulltime job. You cannot even go to the loo in peace, let me tell you.

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  3. Anonymous10:19 PM

    Hello Reema,
    Landed on your blog from your post on Parentous. Your post seemed to echo my thoughts word by word.
    Very wonderfully put :)

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    1. Hey, thank you so much for visiting my blog and taking time to comment. I am glad my thoughts found a resonance in you. By the way, I have visited your blog few times through other blogs, never commented though. But I loved it.

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  4. Anonymous5:19 PM

    I loved the pic you posted :-) I guess I should write now about misconceptions about Working mom..Most common one I heard is Working mom don't pay attention to their kids and don't know much about their own kids as they spend most of time outside home.. I guess road is shaky on both side :-) Doesn't matter you stay at home or go to work,,ppl will made assumptions about you

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    1. Write it dear, and there you got another post idea. Everyone is battling the stereotype. I think it depends on the person one is, you can choose to be careless even if you stay at home and caring even if you go out to work.

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    2. Anonymous5:32 PM

      absolutely correct..it depends on one's nature..fact is whatever you are doing you should be happy with your own choice then only you can raise happy kids

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    3. True that! You seem to be very sorted :-)

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