Happy Monday everyone!
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There is an interesting article over on Redbook about stay at home moms. Author Laura Vanderkam started a project called ‘The Mom Gig.’
The author of , “I Know How She Does It,” surveyed 558 self-identified stay-at-home moms, asking them to record their activities hour by hour on specific days in order to paint the most accurate picture the activities of a stay-at-home mom in 2016.
“I knew that people had a lot of misconceptions about how stay-at-home moms spend their time,” Vanderkam says. “People believe moms are sitting around doing nothing, or that 100 percent of their time is consumed by childcare. Neither is the case — which the Redbook study showed.”
Sixty-two percent of stay-at-home moms work from home according to The MomGig. Respondents said they contributed to their household incomes, with 25 percent running home businesses and 34 percent listing “work” in the time logs they kept for the survey.
There is a lot of interesting observations about stay at home moms and work at home moms in The Mom Gig (which is quite a read if you have time!) including that $50,000 is teh salary moms feel they deserve, 65% of moms are awake before 6a.m., and a shocker for some of us….having 4 kids seem to correlate with the happiest moms.
Grab your coffee and check out the full story on Redbook!
