7 Reasons Why It’s Harder to be a Housewife Than People Think

I’m going to write this article on the assumption that EVERYBODY knows being a stay-at-home mum( aka homemaker) is single-handedly the hardest job croaking.

This article is a refresh in case anyone has forgotten!

I cannot( and choose not to) believe that there might be people out there that fantasize homemakers have it easy. If twenty-something daughters, spouses or anyone think we watch KUWTK, dining ice cream or sunbathing ourselves the working day long, couldn’t be further from the truth.

Narrow-minded beings considered to be housewives are lazy. I can only conclude these people have never been exposed to the life of a housewife and don’t know how difficult and challenging daytimes can be.

Let’s just say you were taken from your 9-5 bureau place five days a week. Put into a mansion with three kids to be a stay-at-home mum. Your mummy duty starts around 5:30 am, straight-from-the-shoulder into drawing the children’ lunches, breakfast, clean-living kitchen, come teenagers ready for school, make all the berths, straighten the house while trying to get everyone garmented, brush their “hairs-breadth” and leant their shoes on.

No time to get dressed yourself, on continue a duet of tracksuit throbs and out the door, whisker looks a lot like an ultimate bird’s den. Children clas fall away, carrying crying toddler. Take toddler to playgroup, run around after him and home for lunch. Toddler naps for a couple of hours while you prepare the dinner, do the washing and some cleaning. Why are we organizing dinner in the middle of the day? There is simply no time when all the kids are home from school.

Time to get back into the car, pick up girls, go to after-school sport. Get home, homework to be done, dinner to cook and play with babies. drying back off the line, all sit down to dinner. Clear up from dinner, clean floors again, minors showered and in PJs. Reading, watching TV and more brushing teeth. More tales, hand-holding, singing and finally all babies asleep at 8p m.

Any average person who hasn’t been exposed to the mummy world would sh* t themselves and never complain about their errand again, I’m sure.

We deserve to be acknowledged for our hard work , not used as a joke or an elbow in the ribs,” oh ha ha my partner watches Tv the working day .” That’s not funny to us. A simple, “you’re amazing” and be on your space is enough.

So without further ado, here are 7 reasons why it’s harder to be a housewife than people think.

1. You’re by yourself most of the time.

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When you go to work, teamwork is paramount. You have collaborators around to support you and you lean on them in difficult times. Housewives work alone, if by some rationale the dinner does not get cooked, who is there to help? No one , no one start fucking talking to and no one to lean on when it all exits south. And believe me, it always does.

2. Work never stops.

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24/ 7 — from the moment you open your eyes till you close them at night, then open them again when you get woken up throughout the night — for tucking ins, drinks of liquid, clasps and more nestles. The morning chore begin with children, housework, running around and everything else in between. And when all that is finished and you’re ready to sit down and have a break from being mummy, it’s time to hang with your partner. Most of the time, you can’t be arsed because you’re too tired. However, he prompts you, he’s the one that has been at work all day. Bah!

3.You have a atrocious boss.

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You! Mums are so hard on themselves when something is not perfect. Home and family are generally your responsibility and when something happens, you can’t help but take it personally. I remember when our firstborn toddler is passing through that precipitating over place. Ever bruised and battered for bumping his head, falling off this and that. My husband scolded me for not making better care of him and wondered why he was always fall over in my upkeep. I was devastated that he perhaps remembered I wasn’t being a good mum. By child number three, I germinated a pair and told him he was in my attention 99.9 percent of the time. Sh* t happens.

4. No payment.

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While most working very hard all week, they know why they are working — coin. Job well done. Here’s your wage check. Housewives have no pay day. Nothing to give them any ability of backing or a pat on the back for get through a terribly trying week. But beings will say, “Oh you get paid in hugs and kisses”. Yes, we do, but that does not buy a delightful pair of shoes or a expedition to the hairdressers when we look like we’ve been dragged through the hedge and back.

5. It’s lonely.

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Human beings are social beings and being social is important. Hubby goes off to work and have everything fulfilled for him at the department where reference is looks his copulates. They chitchat, joke, laugh and go out to lunch.

Housewives get much, much less of that. Most of the interaction we get is with our kids and the Teletubbies or Bob the Builder. We too need real dialogues during the day.

6. No holidays.

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You have no annual leave whatsoever. The only occasion you got to get take your leave is when your husband decides to go for a family holiday during the school holidays. Even then, it’s like a working holiday for you. Same sh* t, different environment. Nonetheless, it is nice to be out of the school routine.

7. No one praises you.

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The girls hate you for concluding them brush their teeth, hubby thinks you nag a bit and wonders what you do the working day. So who tells you what a great job you’re doing? Other mums do, that’s who, because they are in the same situation. But that is not enough, you really want recognition from your husband. While he does go off and deserve the money, you too are doing an equally important job, if not more important — looking after his kids.

So, mirths to all homemakers across the world!

Read more: stayathomemum.com.au