Is staying at home with kids harder than going to work?

Alex Miller

Blogger | Posted on 9-Jan-2019

It depends on the person. This is not just a two different perspectives with different roles indeed. If you are a housewife, you have an entire house to manage. Kitchen and house chores take all the time. You have to make meals, wash dishes, do laundry, and similar stuff. Handling kids in all these situations becomes a routine. It can be a little more difficult it your kid is a toddler. You must have to be careful about his food and related still it becomes a part of your parenting role at home and mothers usually settle down well with it.

Working parents have a double role at hand. If you work and do the house chores at the same you have a list of tasks at hand. In this situation, you can use a few things to make things easier for you. For example, a monitoring app for your kid can keep you apprised about their location and pretty much what they are up to all day long until you reach home. XNSPY is one of the popular apps that can be used for this purpose because it works in real time.

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Both are different roles and you can better decide which one is just right for you.

Brij Gupta

Optician | Posted on 12-Aug-2018

It highly depends on your perspective and your own behavior. It depends on what kind of human are you. And please note that the tendency to love your work more than your kids or other domestic responsibilities, and vice versa, is not gender-specific. There can be women who are not that child-loving, and men who like spending time at home with their kids more than being in office. On the basis of this tendency, you find one of these tasks difficult from the other.

Women are usually confined in the four walls of domesticity and this sometimes become a prison to them, so they start thinking of the stress at work better than the stress of kids, to care for whom they will have to stay at home. On the other hand, men do not get much chance to interact with their own kids due to work, would give anything to spend some time at home with family.

Again, the scenario can be opposite also depending on your perspective and potential of dealing with the monotonous routine. For example, some women may get used to the domestic environment and develop a comfort zone, coming out of which would become difficult from them. Same can happen with men.

So to conclude, we can’t generalize which is better or worse or harder or easier –staying at home with kids, or going to work.

( Courtesy : Parents Magazine )

Urmila Solanki

BBA in mass communication | Posted on 23-Aug-2018

As a house wife, I think it takes as much effort to be with children at home –no matter how old or young they are –as it takes to go out for work. The same level of energy is exhausted in both the activities.

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You have to fulfill all their demands and take of them every moment –be it their homework, their food, or their entertainment. Even keeping an ayah or maid doesn’t help much. Dealing with a human who doesn’t understand about you being tired or not in the mood to work, is as difficult as sitting nine hours in front of a computer. In some cases, it’s even more difficult. Because at work, you get pre-scheduled breaks, and it’s not a 24-hour duty as it is with children.