Ladies: Can You Be A Housewife?

After suffering in medical school, doing a 10 yr course but spending 12 or 14 yr i will now be a house wife  . It just does not make sense to me. My mum is a dentist and she has 5 kids and she pulled through, what less me

How is that posssible

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I am a housewife and it's very fulfilling. I have worked full time and part time as a Mom and have found that when you have young kids, being a full time mom is not a bad idea.

Sure my degree and other qualifications might be "gathering dust" but they don't define me and neither does going to work in an office everyday. I'm glad I am in a position to start my kids off to school in the morning, drop them off and pick them up, be there when they get back and be able to attend all their school activities. I had a working mother and I missed all of that growing up.

As a number of people have already said here, just a few short years ago, I was full of ambition and plotting my ascent up to the corporate ladder but I would not trade my present position for that. Kids grow up so fast and I think if you're able to, being there during those critical years is a gift the whole family will treasure.

I now live in Lagos, I look around my neighborhood and see housemaids taking kids biking because their parents are understandably too tired when they get back. Some kids don't go to bed till 10-11pm on school nights because they want to see Mom and Dad before they sleep and these kids wake up as early  as 5.30am to get on the school bus in the morning. Sometimes, my kids and I go for a walk in the evening and I see my neighbors, Moms and Dads, arriving from work at 8pm or later as I'm making plans to put my kids to bed. I find that things are particularly harder in Lagos even if you're able to work and live on the island.

So, back to the topic, I can be and am a proud housewife.

I thought i was the only one who noticed