Keeping A Clean Home As A Stay-At-Home Mom

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Keeping A Clean Home As A Stay-At-Home Mom
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• Stay-at-home moms are well respected these days,
  and most accept that theirs is a worthwhile job
  that can greatly benefit the entire family. They
  take care of the children (or child) and engage
  them in fun and interesting activities, prepare
  healthy meals for them, and generally try to
  raise them in a loving environment. It may be
  that the partner goes out to work full time, or
  the mom may be raising her kids alone.
• More now than ever before though, stay-at-home
  moms are coming under growing pressure from
  society about how they should spend their time,
  and how clean they should keep their homes. Some
  say that children can only be truly happy and
  well cared for in clean, sterile environments,
  while others state that the childs welfare

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• should not be measured on how clean their home
  environment is, but on how well they are being
  raised.
• Is it possible to keep a clean home while raising
  small children?
• Some will say that it is possible, while others
  will argue that it depends on the individuals
  definition of clean. As any stay-at-home mom
  will know, kids are generally active between naps
  and have no concept of the words clean or
  tidy they pick things up, throw them down in
  another spot, objects go straight into their
  mouths, and a lot of mess gets wiped on clothes,
  carpets and furniture. Kids just want to have fun
  and for them, that sure as hell doesnt involve
  putting things back where they found them or
  wiping up grubby hand prints on walls.

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• Many moms have adopted the attitude of what
  isnt going to harm them, doesnt have to be
  dealt with right away, and that provided they
  keep reachable surfaces clean and sterile, and
  the little ones cant injure themselves on junk
  left lying around, their precious darlings should
  be just fine.
• You could of course, spend your entire day in
  between feeding and entertaining duties, cleaning
  as much of your home as you possibly can, but
  then when do you get to rest? A stressed out and
  all round pooped mom, is no good to anyone, and
  so perhaps its more about achieving a balance
  between cleaning and caring for your kids?

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• How do you strike a balance between childcare and
  cleaning?
• A lot will of course depend on your child or
  children, and how active they are during the day.
  For those stay-at-home moms with very small
  babies, then the importance of rest for mom while
  baby is sleeping, cannot be stressed enough.
  Cleaning might have to be something that you try
  to keep up with if your baby takes a particularly
  long nap, or someone else may have to step in and
  help you out.
• If your kids are a little older, then it may be
  possible to catch up with some cleaning tasks
  while theyre watching their favourite TV
  programme or playing

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• quietly with their toys, but Im sure that most
  realistic moms will be keen to spend quality time
  with their kids, rather than cleaning. Kids are
  also notorious for acting up when they know their
  mom is trying to do something that doesnt
  involve them, so for the sake of a happy
  household, you might find that cleaning takes a
  back seat while you focus on raising happy,
  healthy children.
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