Dennis Prager's Happiness Hour

Dennis Prager has a once a week happiness hour. Today's topic hit the nail on the proverbial head. He started discussing how women aren't happy with raising their children because there is no recognition from society that being a stay at home mom is an achievement.

Dennis Prager pointed out that society's attitude is wrong concerning this whole issue. What is more important than raising a child to be a productive, healthy, stable adult? There is a tendency to look at stay at home mom's (and pops) as not truly achieving anything. But it's totally not true. The achievement is definitely not immediate, nor glamorous. I could understand why a woman would think that just because she's receiving a paycheck that she is achieving more, as opposed to being at home managing rugrats. Therefore, there is an immediate sense of gratification because they are seeing the fruits of their labor. But raising a child and taking care of a husband and home doesn't give an immediate sense of gratification.

I don't have the answers but I think there needs to be a real shift in our thinking concerning this issue.