by Saren Loosli, mother of 5
“You’re skilled! You’re doing things that would knock most famous or rich or highly educated or highly trained people out there right off their feet. Any of us could probably get out in the workforce and do amazing things for monetary profit. But we choose to be with our kids and do amazing things for the profit of souls.
I do hope that one day motherhood will be more fully appreciated by society as a whole – not just as something nice, but as something necessary and beautiful and exemplary. I hope that one day someone other than other mothers out there will understand what I do all day, how hard it is and how adept I’ve become at so many crazy things! But mostly, I hope that husbands and children and mothers themselves can learn to more fully appreciate the amazing things that mothers do and the fact that mother’s work is really the centerpiece of our society.
Maybe one day this sort of realization will spread beyond families and lead to some policy changes and more public recognition of the work mothers do and even to mothers being heavily recruited for their invaluable skills if they decide to rejoin the workforce at some point. But more immediately, a more full appreciation of the importance of mothers’ important work by husbands, children, and mothers themselves could lead to some changes of actions and some changes of hearts right now, right in the home, right where it really matters.”
