In light of what you said regarding stay at home mom's and that "is not a choice we want Americans to make". I respect your position as President but you obviously do not respect ours. A stay at home moms is "full and equal participants in our economy" we help make America what it is. In 1865 William Ross Wallace wrote a poem that states "The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world." It is a poem that 'praises motherhood as the preeminent force for change in the world'.
I cannot imagine what it is like to be president. To have not only America look to you but the world. What a grave responsibility. However, you seem to have forgotten what your role is and you definitely haven't a clue what a stay at home mom's role is. In part, your role is to protect our religious freedom, protect Americans from not only itself but outside forces that are sworn to destroy us. Please see the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Religious freedom doesn't include trying to encourage and make our nation a one world religion. It doesn't include letting the ones who caused such devastation that is ranked top 10 of wars ranked by Americans deaths, to come into America with open arms and build a Mosque within walking distance of where the Twin Towers were destroyed (a sign of victory for the Muslims). Now you are stating that America is a "Muslim country". Really? How about protecting Americans from outside forces, including leadership that has not had our best interests at heart?
As a mom and a former Stay at home mom, I know that you cannot be best friends with your "constituents" doing what is best for them doesn't always win you a favorable vote. Sometimes you get a pout, cold shoulder, fit or blame from that constituent or others. As president of my own home, I believe the rules are about the same. I am not babysitting my constituents and patting them on the back when they kick and scream because they don't want to participate in what is best, I am encouraging those future voters to be contributing Americans that may even change the world as we know it. It is true leadership when you know you have the power to bend someone's will for your own purposes but instead choose to teach them to make their own choices and with those choices comes consequences. I have taken that "wasted time" teaching those children absolutely EVERYTHING. As I held my children to my breast I promoted "Locally grown, all natural food", conserved energy, water and man power. When I taught my children to pray for the President, I am serving the nation as long as I do it before 9 and after 5. I taught them how to respect others even when they aren't deserving. I have taught them to honor our military because without the sacrifice of so many, we wouldn't even have a country. I have taught them to love their neighbor and not bully others into doing what they think is right, to put God first and do what He would have them to do because He is the ultimate guide. It doesn't make us weak, it makes us stronger to admit we aren't the center of the universe. There is Something/Someone greater than us. It takes a strong person to not hide behind people that only push their agenda for money or fame. That emptiness you seem to be incapable of filling is filled when you acknowledge the One you have been fighting so hard to prove that He doesn't exist. One day, I pray that my constituents will follow the example I have led. I have gotten in the "trenches" along with them. I have not written directions and pointed absentmindedly at what they should do, I have taught them every day, with my life, although an imperfect one, Not just in a public eye but behind closed doors. I have actually played with my kids in the park, thrown ball, played babies and hide and seek and know everything there is to know about their lives. When asked by Oprah if you played on the swing set with your children you started to say yes and then changed it and denied having played with them on their swing set. It seems small and insignificant but you start in your own home before you try to save the world outside it. It's called leadership. Honestly, it's hard and sometimes it really stinks. Sometimes you end the day feeling like the worst President ever but when they start to grow and change and I know it is because of those "tough times" I know I have done my job. Those poles may not show right away but the results are unmistakable. Then, it happens, my constituents start to change, resulting in our world changing for the better.
I didn't send my kids to daycare because a choice was made that those children were to be raised by the one that bore them. I do not look down on anyone that is a career mom. I absolutely am blown away by them and now have joined the force. For me, that was not even a debate when I had my children. They are smart, well-rounded and are secure even when our life has been a war zone for the past few years. There was a marriage that was destroyed unexpectedly. Doesn't seem the same to you? I beg to differ. Stay at home moms are the hardest working people there are. The pay is non existent but the benefits never run out. There may not be a car allowance, personal jets or cooks but there are happy children that are better off with a mom in their lives than not. I have gotten down to the last can of peas or not eaten for days on end so they would have enough food. I've allowed gossip and accusations to go unanswered in order to protect the ones I serve. When is the last time you have made sacrifices like that for your constituents?
Please tell me how much better it is for all these moms to flood the non-existent job market in order to make sure their "hourly pay stays competitive". Just to have their children end up in an over crowded daycare with under paid help, for those mom's to have to get on welfare because they can't find work but are trying to stay up with what you believe is best. Tell me how "we" aren't contributing to our society. Let's take it down to the basics. Without us, the world wouldn't exist. Without the ones that take on home school, being a mom and/or career woman, where would we be really? Women are the ones that change a nation. We are the ones that take on jobs we aren't even built for because our children need us. We have stepped into a "man's world" and weren't accepted but continued on no matter what the opposition. Those women were labeled and scorned but they came back day after day because their children needed them to. Our choices are to be a stay at home mom or to have a career. Either way, we are doomed.
Is this still the same America that ridiculed the working women after they decided to continue working in a "man's world" after stepping up when the newspaper articles would state, "Everyone is a helper" calling all women to aide in making heavy machinery during WWII? Can you make up your mind what you really want from us other that to act like a man while looking like a woman, don't show that we are women in our dress because we will be blasted for using our "assets" to get to the top quicker (hard work and determination couldn't be the reason) don't show emotion while trying not to have too strong maternal instincts so we won't be ridiculed in the working world. Now, thanks to you, we are ridiculed from a national platform. If mothers are the ones who rule the world, where do you think your rank will be when it's all said and done?
Again, I appreciate your position but I disagree with, well, just about everything I have ever heard you say. Thanks again for showing who you really are. I was a stay at home mom for years and I have recently been "forced" to go back to the career field along with other women that were always career women and my hourly pay has been just as high if not higher that the ones around me. These hands no longer rock a cradle but they fold in prayer. Good luck with that.
Sincerely,
A loving mother
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