Comments on: How much do you think a mom should be paid? http://www.mightybargainhunter.com/2007/05/15/how-much-do-you-think-a-mom-should-be-paid/ Helping readers to use bargains wisely since 2005 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:24:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: briana http://www.mightybargainhunter.com/2007/05/15/how-much-do-you-think-a-mom-should-be-paid/comment-page-1/#comment-51583 briana Tue, 15 May 2007 19:16:33 +0000 http://www.mightybargainhunter.com/2007/05/15/how-much-do-you-think-a-mom-should-be-paid/#comment-51583 I picked up Your Money or Your Life on the advice of some PF bloggers, and one of the key points in it is to differentiate between 'work' and 'income'. Just because you are not paid for your work does not make it valueless. For some work, such as being a stay-at-home parent, I don't think you can put a value to it. I feel like it cheapens it to assign an invented salary value. The value of a stay-at-home parent is not in the tasks she or he does, it's in improving the quality of life for the family as a whole. If you try to break it down into pieces and assign a salary for time spent as a 'baker', 'cook', 'psychologist,' 'cleaner,' 'doctor', etc. it misses the mark. Parenthood isn't a 'job' - it is meaningful *work.* The challenge for today's families is to bring in enough income to make choosing to stay home an option, and that isn't addressed by games of make-believe. I picked up Your Money or Your Life on the advice of some PF bloggers, and one of the key points in it is to differentiate between ‘work’ and ‘income’. Just because you are not paid for your work does not make it valueless. For some work, such as being a stay-at-home parent, I don’t think you can put a value to it. I feel like it cheapens it to assign an invented salary value.

The value of a stay-at-home parent is not in the tasks she or he does, it’s in improving the quality of life for the family as a whole. If you try to break it down into pieces and assign a salary for time spent as a ‘baker’, ‘cook’, ‘psychologist,’ ‘cleaner,’ ‘doctor’, etc. it misses the mark. Parenthood isn’t a ‘job’ – it is meaningful *work.*

The challenge for today’s families is to bring in enough income to make choosing to stay home an option, and that isn’t addressed by games of make-believe.

]]> By: Nathania Johnson http://www.mightybargainhunter.com/2007/05/15/how-much-do-you-think-a-mom-should-be-paid/comment-page-1/#comment-51542 Nathania Johnson Tue, 15 May 2007 15:19:38 +0000 http://www.mightybargainhunter.com/2007/05/15/how-much-do-you-think-a-mom-should-be-paid/#comment-51542 Whoever compared a mom who cooks mac and cheese to a chef is an idiot. A chef doesn't clean all the linens at the restaurant or sweep the floor or do his/her employees' laundry. As for what to pay a stay-at-home mom? well, if someone would just pay me my current salary (under $30k), then i could afford to stay home and that's what i want. I'm trying to start my own ventures to make that happen. Whoever compared a mom who cooks mac and cheese to a chef is an idiot. A chef doesn’t clean all the linens at the restaurant or sweep the floor or do his/her employees’ laundry.

As for what to pay a stay-at-home mom? well, if someone would just pay me my current salary (under $30k), then i could afford to stay home and that’s what i want. I’m trying to start my own ventures to make that happen.

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