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The Effect of Today’s Economy on Moms
By Cathy Lopez
Many years ago it was possible for moms to stay at home and
care for their families. It was not uncommon for a child to
enter the house after school and be invited to the wonderful
smell of fresh baked cookies or for the husband to come home
from work to a set table with dinner about to be served. But
today moms are often rushing through the door at the same time
that their children and husbands are and dinners are often
ordered out or prepared quickly at home. Cookies are bought at
the store and broken apart and shoved in the oven. Rarely do you
see a homemade pie resting on the window sill on a beautiful
fall afternoon. Today’s economy leaves little opportunity for
the mom to even stay at home anymore let alone have the time to
put into all the little extras that used to be so common many
years ago.
Many families today can hardly survive on one income and many
of the families who can still seek that little bit of extra and
more and more mothers are being drawn away from the home and
into the job market. But this isn’t necessarily a bad thing and
it doesn’t necessarily have to lead to a complete loss of
tradition either. Today’s moms have to be more willing to seek
help from their partners on the home front. You may not get your
husband in the kitchen making a pie from scratch but you might
be able to get him to supervise the kids baking cookies.
Today’s moms have got to be comfortable with delegating some of
their tasks to both their husbands and their children. Often you
will be quite surprised at how easy it is to get help but the
key to getting that help is asking. One thing that every mother
knows is that if you want something done you’re going to either
have to do it yourself or ask your husband or kids to do it.
Rarely will you find them volunteering their services, even if
it involves something that they should have done to begin with.
Just as moms are adjusting to taking on additional tasks so are
children and husbands as well.
The weakening economy though does not necessarily have to mean
a weakening family bond. In fact the more team oriented approach
to family life today may even be used to strengthen the family
bond. When a family works together to improve their lives as a
whole it should be looked upon as a lesson to be learned by
children and adults alike. What your children learn from
watching and participating in your family’s growth is something
that they will always take with them. From today’s family
children will learn what it means to sacrifice individually for
the better of the whole family, something that every child
should learn. These are the kinds of lessons that will
strengthen the family at a time when it feels that families are
so far apart.
About the Author: Cathy Lopez is an experienced article writer
for a long time. She is currently writing articles about soccer
moms at http://www.momvoice.com/whats-behind-soccer-moms.html.
See more articles at
http://www.momvoice.com/soccer-moms-agree.html.
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