When you send your kid to the school of your choice, you are making a conscious decision to trust a stranger with your child’s mind. I honestly can’t think of another way to say it. So there it is for you straight and to the point.

Among many, teachers teach discipline, teachers teach about team work, teachers create order, but most of all teachers teach what the young mind doesn’t already know. Since I believe that you are quite smart, I know that you know that spans a wide spectrum of things. They are trusted professionals who have to learn a lot and experience a lot to teach much.

Sound familiar? Isn’t that our job as parents PERIOD? Whether it is the everyday practice of brushing your teeth and being tidy or about the solar system, it’s pretty much our job. And when we send them off to school, we in a sense share that job with the “hired help.”

Think about what a teacher does all day and then ask yourself again what a stay-at-home mom does all day? After you ask yourself that question, think twice about how much time she actually has on her hands.

We Teach: we show the future leaders, entrepreneurs and workers of this world about life, about character and about morals. We teach the things that lay the foundation for learning in the future (academic and practical life) ALL DAY just like the ones you pay or don’t pay. We teach the young mind what it doesn’t already know—everything from the alphabet, colors, numbers and shapes to reading books and engaging in outdoor activities and finding opportunities for socialization.

We Plan & We Execute: we plan meals, we plan trips, we plan lessons, we plan topics to teach throughout the week, we plan field trips and we plan celebrations. And the mompreneurs, we plan meetings, we plan schedules, we plan deadlines, we plan work execution, we engage people. And when hours have been spent in planning and research, we finally execute.

We Manage the Home: Cooking, cleaning, laundry, budgets, bills etc.

We Discipline: we keep the children out of trouble (or in my case, the toddler who thinks he can do whatever he wants). I was just so naive in thinking that with so many toys to play with, he would find zero interest in what belongs to mommy and daddy.

When you calculate the amount of hours all this takes, there are simply not enough hours in the day. So rest assured, they are all being used up.

So, when you see a Stay-at-Home-Mom, don’t ask her what she does all day? Ask her about her busy day with passionate interest. After all, the truth is that her day may just have been as hard, stressful and long as yours.