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How Do I Work While Being a Full-Time Mother?
Short answer: I don’t
How do I work while being a full-time mother? I don’t. In society's eyes today, I am unemployed. No matter how many kids I have, or what do I do in my life. I am without a career in the definition of modern society.
I do a lot, either part of my duties as a mother or as a human. Yet, what I do is not meaningful for the capitalist world we live in. You may meet a mother who is homeschooling 7 of her kids, yet capitalism considers her without a career. Even though, if she became a teacher in a school for the same 7 kids, she will be someone with a career now.
It is crazy. Motherhood is hard in modern society. It is the unnoticed very heavy 24/7 hour work. It is not just unappreciated, but it also faces a lot of detractions. Society looks daily to each mother who is dedicated to her kids, that she is unemployed and useless. Full-time mothers get daily recommendations about how they need to seek a career.
This took me to a fundamental question, what is the definition of work?
If someone loves cooking and has enough money to have a living, and she cooks daily for their neighborhood and gives food to the poor with no money in return. Is she working? Mostly the answer is no. Even though if she cooks the same amount of food in a…
