We have no doubt about something: all mothers are extraordinary. Maternar is hard work, with many responsibilities that keep us busy throughout the day, but that also fills us with many rewards and rewarding moments next to our children.
There is also something very true about motherhood: each woman lives in a unique and different way. On this occasion, I want to share a reflection thought of those women who are mothers and work outside the home, and recognize the challenges they face every day.
Work outside the home when they have children
Whether by necessity and better economic stability, or by pursuing your dreams and continuing with your professional career, leaving home to work is the reality of millions of women in the world. And although today is something very normal, working outside the home when children are not easy.
In Babies and more The viral comic that shows the obstacle course that working mothers face every dayThe arrival of motherhood comes to break all our schemes and completely change the routine that perhaps we had been doing in the same way for years. It's a great transformation that tests us many times, showing strengths that we didn't know we had, and presenting weaknesses that we never thought we would experience.
In the case of women working outside the home, motherhood comes to this new life accompanied by a huge list of unexpected questions and new decisions that we must make. Fortunately, with them also comes a new strength and motivation to get ahead, which It pushes us to do our best every day and helps us make things work. However, it is not as simple as it might seem.
The challenges of mothers working outside the home
Although each type of maternity has its own tests and situations that challenge us every day and that they are very unique to each other to compare or say who has it more or less difficultWe must recognize that the challenges faced by mothers working outside the home can be very large.
Personally, I believe that all or most of the women who have children and that daily or much of the week should go to work outside their home, find themselves Two types of challenges: emotional and occupational.
On the one hand, we have emotional or maternal challenges, which are those that are directly related to motherhood. An example of this is what it may be the biggest challenge of being a mother who works outside the home: separating from her children and leave them in the care of someone else.
Although the first months or years usually feel heavier, the truth is that we will always feel that our heart is crushing, even a little, when we say goodbye to our children. Entrusting their lives to someone else is not usually something simple and the fault of not spending more time with them can make us spend very bad times.
In Babies and more Motherhood and conciliation: 75 percent of Spanish mothers feel guilty of not being able to spend more time with their childrenAnother challenge directly related to our role as mothers is to maintain breastfeeding, which can become a completely challenging task when returning to work, because not all jobs have adequate space to do so.
As for job challenges, you are sure to identify them because we have talked about them on previous occasions: discrimination, new obstacles within the work environment and how complicated it can be to try to reconcile, reasons why many women contemplate quitting their jobs after concluding their maternity leave.
In addition, the work stress that can be experienced in the environment of our work, can sometimes cause us to take problems from the home office, affecting the relationship with our family, so find a balance and disconnect when leaving work, is something we must also learn to do.
And of course, we cannot leave one of the greatest challenges facing mothers who work away from home: having to multiply by a thousand to be able to organize, attend, fulfill and remember each and every one of their activities in both roles.
The positive side of being a mother and working away from home
Not everything is bad news and it is not just about capturing those things that are complicated for mothers who work outside the home, because like every life situation, it also has its good side.
On the one hand, our professional development is benefited, because as we have commented through personal experiences, motherhood can help improve our work productivity and our work as professionals it also makes us develop skills that help us to be better mothers.
In Babies and more Why working outside the home helps me to be a better motherThis growth is not only something positive for us, but also for our children, as we become an example of struggle, effort and dedication for them. And of course, one of the most beautiful lessons that leaves us working outside the home: the immeasurable value that time acquires with our family.
Although time for all mothers with their children is worth gold, when they spend so many hours a day outside, those kisses and hugs that wrap us when we return home and the moments when we are again with ours, they become the most precious and for nothing in the world we would let something interrupt them.
Of course, no mother is better or worse than another because she is inside or outside the home, since each one is different. But in short, the work and effort that mothers working outside the home do every day is one worthy of recognition and applause. Because it is never easy to leave children, but it is something that is done with all the love in the world.
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