I was a stay at home/homeschooling mom of 4 for 23 years, my husband became very abusive and I took the kids and ran. I had an auntie say I should have stayed with him instead of becoming a single working mom. I work, I take care of my mom in her home, my oldest son is married with a daughter(they live out of state), my 26 yr old son has Autism, my 24yr old son works and is studying to be an ordained Youth Minister and my youngest and only daughter is 20 in college and working. my 3 youngest and I live in a small apartment but we do our best and are happy and free from abuse. Thank You for all your straight because some of us don't know our own voice, you give us a voice. I also love love Nutella.
I'm a stay at home mom of 7 kids and this video made my day. If only EVERYONE saw this video! My respect to all mothers, stay at home or working, only through God can we do ALL that we do with out going completely insane 😁
Sometimes working mom's use their lunch break to get their kids home from school to home to food or to the next sport and food..... and never eat lunch because they forget to eat! LOL! I've been a stay at home mom and now a single "working" mom. Both equally HARD both equally SATISFYING! No woman should ever judge another woman..... PERIOD! Practice kindness and we all WIN! Lift each other up everyday! Love your video!
Preach on sister Kristina! Yaaaassss girl. Yaaaassss! And it doesnt stop when they are 11 and 13. I work 24 - 48 hour shifts as a single mom paramedic and I come home to all the crap I was too exhausted to deal with on my “days off.” I don’t get days off. When I am not on an ambulance I am trying to get all the crap done I didnt do before i left for work at 5:30 am the day before! Thank you Kristina.
Mind your own motherhood, lol. I love you! Seriously, idk how isolated I would feel without the internet and moms like you, frankly I don't want to know. Keep doing you, you're fantastic. ♥️♥️
...And the more we support one another, especially in front of our kids, the better we're teaching kids to support and accept their friends despite their differences!
I absolutely LOVE YOU!!!!! You know how to get your point across in the best way. “Moms working outside of the home actually love their kids just as much as stay at home moms” that’s my favorite line. I use to think of that in the same way. Now I have grown up and became a mommy myself and have meet a lot of working outside of the house mommy’s. I understand the need not just for money but for your own mind to have that time away from your kids. That is not a bad thing.
I was able to stay home for the first 15 months of my twin boys' lives but after that had to return to the workforce for financial reasons. I was talking to my husband the other day and he said something along the lines of it was a blessing in disguise that I had to go back to work so i could stop being lazy. This really upset me because although I'm in a high stress work environment, I can honestly say that staying at home with two toddlers is WAY harder (at least physically and emotionally) and I was NEVER lazy when I was a stay at home mom... Like Kristina said, I barely sat down, ate really fast while feeding the kids (sometimes couldn't even get a meal in unless by some miracle BOTH kids were sleeping at the same time), and didn't get any breaks until the the family went to sleep! being a working mom is really hard too... because we have to balance both family and work. and that working mom guilt is real! Loved this video! it's all so true!
I was a stay at home mom to 5 kids for over 20 years. Then my husband left me and I was thrust into being a working out of home mom. Now I’m just a working woman with grown kids who would LOVE to go back to being EITHER of the moms I was. I loved raising my kids so much. 🥰
She actually recently did just that and also released an amazing book that I would highly recommend. She has a link to the mind your motherhood shirt in her Instagram bio and her Instagram is the same name as her youtube channel
Thank you, Kristina, for the encouragement! I got to enjoy your video in the peace once everyone was in bed😂. I loved the ‘mind your own motherhood’ line LOL!!
Yup...working from home becomes very challenging. It may not seem so at the start but as time passes and sometimes there are deadlines and workloads but the family, husband, and kids are never really ready to give that peaceful working space. Of course, it is not possible to stay in a different room to work if you are also looking after the kids as well while working but when the husband returns from his work they just start talking about there things or asking something. The seriousness of online-work from home is never really taken as seriously as a wife would take her husband's office job. In its entirety becomes quite tough, if you work with international clients in different time zones. You may have to work in the evening or night and there might be guest trying to come over on a weekday evening. Then sometimes you may have to work on weekends and some guests have to come - Man it becomes so stressful, I cannot even explain. And at the end, there is no real appreciation. Work from home job is never really taken as a job by most pppl. They still need dinner, clothes, kids homework blah blah blah at the right time.
YESSSS.YESSS! This is it!! No matter how you do it, there is always someone who is judging you, whether you stay at home or work outside🤪🤪 thank you so much for this video, Kristina, just needed that! And I might share it with a couple of moms, lol😂😂😂😂
You are inspiring. I have learned so much from watching your channel. You've inspired me to start my own channel on parenting kids with disabilities :) thank you for everything you do!
I've had days where I clean up 3 to 4 big messes, one after the other! I get frustrated, but then I think I could make millions writing a sitcom. But I love my job and my clients are super cute.
After being a single mom for 9 years, I'm so proud to say my boyfriend is a stay-at-home dad for my 2 kids. He cleans the house, changes the diapers, puts kids down for their naps... and they're not his biological kids. He loves them as his own and is a fantastic dad. I work from home, but my kids always say I work too much. It's hard to find a balance and the guilt is endless. In the end, I pay the bills and my boyfriend does everything else. Thank you for keeping judgmental moms in check. The NUN (seriously... she has NO idea what I'm up against) told me last week that I'm a horrible mom because I don't personally drop my daughter off or pick her up from school. I shrugged and explained that at least I'm a mom who's doing my best.
Aaahhhh! I love it! I work outside the home and the work never stops! I've also been a SAHM and it is a very tough job too. I feel so much guilt from myself and other people about not being present enough and not being able to hit every single mark at work and at home. Thank you so much for this video! I feel a little less guilty and more encouraged.
How many of you only get whats left on your kids plate for lunch? I remember those days. Took me a while to figure out that was why I was getting sick all the time 😂😂🤣😳
I'm a SAHM, and I think being a working mom is very hard. Keep up the great work working mamas! You are amazing!! And if you ever feel guilty, you should know that, most likely, my kids are getting more screen time than yours.
Kristina I could hug you! Has been one of those days and finally both kids asleep at 10pm flicked my phone on to see this. Bought tears to my eyes. Thank you!
Omg!!!! Great video I just came from Brianna K Instagram! Watched... laughed... laughed some more and subscribed! Mom of a 18 m/o boy and 35 weeks pregnant!!!! Stay at home mom AKA “not working mom” 😂😂
Years ago I ran into an old friend I hadn’t seen for awhile and was telling her about my job. She now had children and apologetically told me that she was a stay-at-home mom. I told her that she was working at one of the most important jobs there is and should NEVER be apologetic about it. Most mothers are doing what they need to insure their children have what they need.
I'm a "going to school" mom. My son is living with his dad for the next two years so that I can finish school and get my psych degree. I miss him like crazy but I feel like I'm ignoring him when I have to spend hours on an essay or studying 5-6 days a week and then I have to go to work 5 evenings of the week. Looking forward to being done university, getting my degree, and getting more time with my boy!
Anyone else out there feel like an inadequate SAHM because you don't home school, keep the house perfectly clean, cook amazing meals everyone loves, or even spend hours doing homework with your kids. The self inflicted guilt is the worst, feeling like you should be and do more...
Oh the mom guilt! No matter what we do ..there seems to be some level of guilt consistently doesn’t there?! I’m a stay at home working mom. Yep the reward is silence at night ...but is there such thing as a juggling reward? Oooof some days I don’t even know what day it is ...for the entire day lol
I heard on the radio the other day about a study regarding how much stay and home moms would make yearly if they got paid and it was between $160-$170k a year! Not sure what they based it off of but dang...too bad we don't get paid cash lol that'd be nice! Hahaha!
I can't agree more! Stop judging each other and mind your own parenting should be something everyone practices. The only time anyone should ever get involved or say something about the way how another family or a person does things in their household is if there is any clear sign of any form of abuse or violence. No, the word different and abuse are not the same words. Besides, if what you are doing for your family is working so well for you, spend time enjoying YOUR own family instead of trying to get other people to do what you are doing only knowing the very surface of what the other people's family is really like when you are not there.
My boyfriends mother worked outside the home to pursue a career that involved traveling and staying gone for sometimes 2-3 weeks at a time. Their dad stayed home, the mom made more money apparently. Well I stay home with our son who is now 3 because we didn’t want him in daycare and can’t afford it anyway. she consistently criticizes me for not working and feels I don’t contribute or help and I put all financial responsibilities on her son. She can’t relate to what’s involved with staying home with a child or children because she’s never done it. She prioritized her job to move up financially. Crazy coming from another mother.
