Growing up the messaging that my peers are I received was that we could do anything. The lie being that it's possible to do everything. Have a career, be a mum. And have a fulfilling relationship. I know I was made to feel that being 'just a mum' was to have failed. That I SHOULD be doing so much more. Anyway, women can do whatever they want but need to know that there are tradeoffs and doing it 'all' is a myth.

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Absolutely and societally we need to put stay at home mothers to multiple children in their proper place at the top of the hierarchy

💯 Unpaid work is work and arguably the most important work.

Calling it unpaid work diminishes it in my opinion. It’s a much more sacred calling than that.

It's what the bureaucrats call it. Part of how they make it feel like it's less than everything else.

Maybe you should run for president or something. 😎