Stay-at-home moms sometimes get a bad rap. While some may think the job entails doing a few loads of laundry and cooking dinner in between eat bonbons and watching soap operas, it takes lots of work.
The same, if not more, work than going to a job every day.
Florida mother and tattoo artist Ryshell Lynch is a stay-at-home mom who felt that housewives should get the credit they deserve.
So she crafted a hypothetical conversation between a psychologist and husband who complains that his stay-at-home wife “doesn’t work.”
The psychologist asks the husband a series of questions such as who makes breakfast for the family, how the kids get to school.
To which he responds: “my wife because she doesn’t work.”
He also asks things like when his wife wakes up in the morning.
“She wakes up early because it has to be organized. She organizes the lunch for the children, ensures that they are well-dressed and combed, if they had breakfast, if they brush their teeth and take all their school supplies. She wakes with the baby and changes diapers and clothes. Breastfeeds and makes snacks as well,” he tells the psychologist.
The psychologist continues to ask him questions and the husband continually outlines all the things she does throughout the day and how she has to wake up earlier than he does to accomplish everything.
While he gets to relax when he comes home from work, she has to work through the evening and even wakes up during the night to breastfeed and change diapers.
Lynch posted the scenario on Facebook where it got more than 400,000 shares, according to Upworthy.
Lynch finished her post with the following statement:
“This is the daily routine of many women all over the world, it starts in the morning and continues until the wee hours of the night… This is called “doesn’t work”?! Being a housewife has no diplomas but has a key role in family life! Enjoy and appreciate your wife, mother, grandma, aunt, sister, daughter… Because their sacrifice is priceless,” she wrote.
When someone asked her if she works or is “just a housewife” here’s what she said:
“I work as a wife of the home, 24 hours a day..
I am a mother,
I am a woman,
I am a daughter,
I’m the alarm clock,
I’m the cook,
I’m the maid,
I am the master,
I’m the bartender,
I’m the babysitter.”
“I’m a nurse,
I am a manual worker,
I’m a security officer,
I’m the adviser,
I am the comforter,
I don’t have a vacation,
I don’t have a license for disease.
I don’t have a day off
I work day and night,
I’m on duty all the time, I do not receive salary.”
Despite all of the labor housewives do, they are still asked, “but what do you do all day?”
She leaves her readers with this: “The woman is like salt. Her presence is not remembered, but its absence makes everything left without flavor.”
