I was recently interviewed by Dalya at A Fine Balance: The Podcast discussing my choice to be a stay-at-home mum (SAHM) but I've struggled to find the right words to start this blog post about it! I want to share my story and my experience of deciding to give up work 24 years ago to be a full time SAHM, something I am extremely proud of and a decision I have never once regretted. So why do I find it hard to write about?
Being a SAHM was just something I knew was right for me and my family and I just quietly got on with. I didn't know any different and it felt like the most natural thing in the world. But I worry that whatever I say might be seen as being judgemental of others choices, even though I haver never been judged! Maybe just going publish feels brave! I've never hidden my decision to be a SAHM, and among family and friends, I talk openly about it. Anyone that knows me knows how nurturing and caring I am and that family came first but that I also kept very busy with lots of other projects - volunteering at nursery school and school, setting up and running all the admin for my husbands business (a paid role from home during school hours), overseeing the care and fighting a fair few battles for my late brother-in-law who had Downs Syndrome, and of course in more recent years setting up my blog.
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