After more than five years I can attest to the great value of having my wife home full-time and would not change a thing. Her daily sacrifices result in blessings for me and the boys. Sure, we could have made much more money but the Lord has enabled us to live on a teacher's salary with two boys. I have no doubt He will continue to provide for us now that we have four boys.
On Mother's Day please consider an excerpt from today's sermon at Calvary Chapel Pasadena and a recent article that illustrates the value of stay-at-home moms.
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A Stay-Home Mother: Time Invested in Her Children
-She will spend 17 hours a day with the child. In the first year, she will spend 3,000+ hours with the child.
-In the first 12 years, she will spend 40,000+ hours with the child.
-Between ages of 13 and 18, she will spend 4 hours a day, for a total of 2,000 hours during those years.
During those 18 years, she will spend 42,000+ hours with the child (instead of 6,000+ as a working woman--7 times more.)
(Calvary Chapel Pasadena)
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Value of stay-at-home moms rises
WALTHAM, Mass. -- The cost of paying a stay-at-home mom for all the work she does is on the rise.
Salary.com says if they got paid, stay-at-home moms would pull down $134,121 this year - a raise of $2,650 from last year’s theoretical salary.
Salary-dot-com has put together a list of job titles that best matched a stay-at-home mom’s definition of the work she does. Among them, in the order of hours spent per week, are housekeeper, day care center teacher and cook.
Job titles new to the list this year include psychologist, laundry machine operator and computer operator.
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