Is it time to start paying stay-at-home parents?
For Willow Tepper, quality time with her kids doesn't feel like work, she said, but most of the rest does.Tepper, who worked as a thought leadership consultant and writer, decided to start working as a stay-at-home parent just three months before the pandemic started. She now runs an"Something I wasn't really expecting to notice, and I didn't really notice until I became a stay-at-home parent, is the leadership skills I've had to develop," she added.
Because stay-at-home parenting exists outside of the realms of traditional work — and remains unwaged — it feels undervalued by the parents who do it. At the beginning of her career as a stay-at-home mom, Strunk struggled a lot, feeling like she wasn't bringing in money. For as long as families have come up against the reality of America's lack of safety net, and how invisible housework is, they've had to adapt. Michael Connelly has been working as a stay-at-home parent — and then grandparent — since about 1986. He and his wife, a professor, realized his salary as a journalist would essentially just go towards childcare and taxes.
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