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[avyixy]

Is anyone as stressed as me today?

Life is so hard for working mums!!

Now it's summer and the kids are home from school, my toddler keeps throwing tantrums every morning cause he doesn't want to go to the childminder because when we leave home his older sisters are still sleeping. The worst part is leaving him at the childminder's crying and calling for his mummy.


And to top that, I come to an office for eight hours a day where there is no job satisfaction, and things have got so bad that I don't know from one day to the next if the boss will go bankrupt or not.

Then it's home time which is a great relief but when I get home I have to start my second job, mum, housewife, cook, cleaner.

What a stressfull life!! Any other mum feel the same?

[theresa]

Dear Avyixy I too was a working mum in the Uk (mine are grown up now) and I do know how you are feeling! Theres no easy way out if you cant afford to give up work, but after my toddler son made himself sick with crying - I gave up and became a childminder myself!! That way I kept him with me AND he had friends to play with AND I earned the same money! I converted one of my rooms into a playroom, and got the council certificate etc. Can you do this in Cyprus? Good luck Tess x

[avyixy]

Thanks Tess,

I have thought of that. In Cyprus you don't need any certificates to become a childminder. The only thing is that in order to get a decent
wage you would have to look after at least four children, which for me would be impossible, cause that would mean five with my toddler.

So I just have to be patient and hope things will get better.

Thanks anyway

[raymanuva]

avyixy, not to disrespect or offend you or anything... but what does your husband do?

[anastasiaC]

Im a working mum but in Sydney, Australia
we all feel the same though.....
I have two boys but only work 3 days a week and its still hard

being a parent is the hardest job heehee

[dms007]

I admire all those working mothers.
My mother still works and when I was young I used to remember how I was complaining to my mother how the food was bad, the clothes were not clean and so on.
Now that Iam away from my mother I realised how selfish I have been.
I remember my mother was the first to wake up and the last to go to bed.
She used to get up very early and start cooking the breakfast and then get ready to go to work.
Then on the way back from home, she used to go get the groceries and then come home and start cooking and cleaning.
And I think it is the same with almost all the working mothers.
When I think about how I have treated her I feel bad, Iam lucky to have such a mother.

God bless all those mothers out there!

[avyixy]

Yeah being a parent is the hardest job in the world. I would love to have a part time job, but in Cyprus they are few and far between and usually very low paid.

Hope my children appreciate it sometime in their lives, cause at the moment I don't think they do.

Raymanuva- my husband is a self employed roof fitter. But in this day and age it is very difficult for a family of five to live on one wage alone.

[fox]

Amen to that dms.

[Snad]

I admire all those working mothers.
My mother still works and when I was young I used to remember how I was complaining to my mother how the food was bad, the clothes were not clean and so on.
Now that Iam away from my mother I realised how selfish I have been.
I remember my mother was the first to wake up and the last to go to bed.
She used to get up very early and start cooking the breakfast and then get ready to go to work.
Then on the way back from home, she used to go get the groceries and then come home and start cooking and cleaning.
And I think it is the same with almost all the working mothers.
When I think about how I have treated her I feel bad, Iam lucky to have such a mother.

God bless all those mothers out there!

Well said DMS

It is nice to see that some men appreciate their mothers and all they do for them. I have experience of this as I have 3 sons, who all appreciate me.

Remember the old addage, "a woman's work is never done"

[theresa]

Too true!! Theres an old Irish rhyme about Mothers:

Appreciate your Mother boys, and love her every day, you'll never miss a Mothers love, til' shes buried beneath the clay.

tess