https://sg.entertainment.yahoo.com/blogs/parenting/breastfeeding-campaign-posters-stir-online-controversy-190307806.html
The other day in my pilates class, a children dance class was going on in the next room. The teacher was stern and I could hear her instructing the kids passionately across the wall. When my class was over and I came out. There was this petite dancer , sitting on the bench, openly breast feeding her 1 yr old and shouting instructions to the fifteen 5 yr olds students in the classroom.Everything and everyone was normal. Nothing was out of place. Amazing. the more I see women in Kazakhstan, the more I am proud to know them and embrace their emancipated spirit.
http://carolynee.net/a-letter-from-a-working-mother-to-a-stay-at-home-mother-and-vice-versa/
Generally, I don’t read the WM and SAHM stories because everyone is fighting their own battles. But the amazing response this letter has got has really made me sad. Although the letters are heartwarming, it’s really pathetic that we as women are so uncertain of who we are what we want. We need the world to endorse our presence and take note of our virtues in all walks of life. From body image, to dress choice, to parenting, to being a wife. I think if we as women stop judging people around us and start to endorse and appreciate our contribution in society it will be less tears for everyone.
One of the comments (by Vicky) to the blog is something I can relate to is below. I thank the author for sharing these words
“have been both a SAHM and a working mother. I think women who obsess over this issue have no other life, either way, and are using their kids to define who they are, which is a really easy trap to fall into. I work full-time and I am not some harried woman desperately eating my lunch at my desk and skipping coffee breaks. I have my own life, and I did when I was a SAHM mom too. Kids are only young for a few years and then it’s full-time school, so I think it’s a waste of time to worry about this. It’s part of the package of having children, I’m sure we all knew that when we got ourselves into this. I have no guilt for having worked when they were little and enjoyed my time home with them. I don’t relate to either of these posts.”
Have a nice day.
