Working Mums vs. Stay at Home Mums Reviews

My daughter is 6 months and currently during her naps, I study online to be a teaching assistant. Before I had her, I was a nanny but I have also wanted to work within a school environment. There is so much controversy these days about some mothers working all day and only seeing their children at night. Yes, I hate the thought of ...  Read the complete review

I write this now as my little one is turning two and currently laying on the floor having a temper tantrum over not having a yogurt and I thank the lord I can have a break when I go to work. However this is not how I have always felt. I am a childrens nurse currently working full time in a childrens hospice. I love my job to ...  Read the complete review

Here's a thing that drives me bonkers. My wife and I both work. Both of us earn okay money, but not enough to live on one person's wage. At least, not in a house with a garden. Both of us work very hard both at our jobs and at our parenting. My wife is a nurse dealing with end of life care, she works evening shifts whilst I work days and ...  Read the complete review

I think when you have young children who are not in school and you're working, often feel abandoned that there mums and dads are away working all the time, it is accepted in todays society that a staying at home mum is in fact a sort of job - only 24 hours a day 7 days a week. I see my daily routine as a job, so I wouldn't like to be working at the moment on top of everything else I do as I know for a fact it'll be too stressfull for me. Thats where I think working mums with young babies have a disadvantage as they may under perform

The very idea of a 'versus' for working or stay at home option immediately gets my back up. Why should it be 'versus'? It's not two football teams competing, these are peoples lives. I find the whole thing incredibly frustrating, and ultimately the most frustrating thing is that once you become a parents, the world seems to feel ...  Read the complete review

A working mum can be very versatile in today's society! She can multitask, organise the daily tasks, work her schedules, and plan almost everything that she needs to do to work around her pride and joys, her kids!! Finding quality time is both important for hers and her kid's emotional needs. Children thrive on just knowing that mum ...  Read the complete review

I thought I would weigh into the debate as this is obviously something I have experience in and something that is personal to me as I had a baby girl at the end of last year. This is definitely a controversial subject as there are definitely two sides to the argument/subject and I can see both sides but I have to say that I am pretty ...  Read the complete review

I have given this topic a lot of thought since reading a recent review on this subject. My opinion is simple. Do what suits YOUR particular family circumstances. There is no way you can impose a blanket assumption that one way of parenting is better than another. We are all unique individuals with our own personalities and family ...  Read the complete review

I am going to offer 2 sides to this in a way and hope you understand where I am coming from. As a child, money was extremely tight and both my parents had to work to support myself and my sister. As a result, I was looked after by my lovely Granny. Now I feel that I never went without but the one thing that I felt I lost out ...  Read the complete review

Now as this is a very emotive topic I'm going to try my hardest to give a balanced argument of the pros and cons of working or staying at home. Whilst I have my own views, over the years I have seen mothers in many different circumstances so realise that it is a complex issue with no definite answer. If you are interested then read on. ...  Read the complete review

== Introduction == I am pregnant at the moment and I have had many people ask me if I plan to get a job once my baby is born. First off I need to give you a little insight into my recent life events. I finished college and planned on university, but then met my husband and ended up moving to a different part of the country with him ...  Read the complete review

What's best when you have your child is it to stay at home and care for them and if this is right how long is it right for. Or is it go back to work (if you worked) and if this is right when do you go back to work if ever? Maternity leave has increased over the years making it easier to have a longer time off work but some ...  Read the complete review

This debate is one which divides many people, with seemingly no 'down the middle' option. I am going to give you my opinion on this debate but respect anyone who has a different one to mine. I have 2 daughters aged 18 months and 3 ½. I work part time for the NHS, work at home part time running an ironing service and I am also ...  Read the complete review

I have always worked from home and I guess I have been very lucky in that respect. I worked from home for my previous employer (but obviously in order for me to do any work, my daughter needed to go to nursery full time). After a hellish 2009, I quite my job and am taking my former employer to tribunal for reasons I won't go into here ...  Read the complete review

For many people this subject quite simply sparks a debate which no side can seem to win. For myself, getting pregnant was not planned. The first thing that myself and fiancé did was sit down and work out if our finances would be good enough to support a child. I am lucky that the maternity package offered by my employer is ...  Read the complete review

Well there is no doubt in my mind that this is a controversial issue these days but it is one I feel quite strongly about. Before my husband and I started our family, we worked out if we could afford to have a baby at that time in our life. I knew that there was no way that I wanted to have a child and then leave ...  Read the complete review

Stay at home mum or working mum?? Both are a full time job. I gave up work as a store supervisor when i had my son in 1999 and decided i would wait till he was at school to go back to work, i then suddenly became a single mum and set up home on my home with the help of my family, when my son started school i started looking for a ...  Read the complete review

I have been a working mum since my youngest daughter reached two and a half years old. This was a decision based more on finances than my particular set of cultural norms, or desire for a career. I grew up at a time and in a village where taking the option to work after reproducing was considered scandalous, whilst on the ...  Read the complete review

When i got pregnant it was a bit of a surprise, To find out i was going to be a single mum was an even bigger surprise to me and threw my world upside down. I soon came to realise that actually all that matter was my child and being able to provide for him. I worked all the hours possible in my pregnancy to try and build myself a ...  Read the complete review

When I fell pregnant with my son (unplanned but a happy thing) I was working full time in a childcare centre that took children from 12 weeks old to 4 years. We opened form 7 in the morning till half 5 ,5 days a week and was open all year around. This was a great place to work I had so much fun with ''my'' children spending ...  Read the complete review