Parenting
Why I’m Removing “Homemaker” from My Job Title
How I’m finding more freedom as a mother.
Every time I fill out any type of paperwork, I always end up writing “homemaker” in the employment blank.
I guess it’s because when my husband and I first got married, that was offered as a choice on our car insurance paperwork. And also, at the time, we were involved with a really conservative fundamentalist sect of Christianity, which viewed “homemaker” as really my only option. Homemaking encompassed child rearing, cooking, and all the housework. Really, it was three different jobs (at face level alone)!
I really don’t have the time to go into that religious trauma.
Words Have Weight
I’m still a Christian. I still stay at home with our children. I still do (most of) the cooking and cleaning, the grocery shopping, and the making of doctor’s appointments.
But I’m reframing how I see that.
Because what you call yourself matters. What you believe about your role in your family, your workplace and the world around you matters. Deeply.
Your job title can inform how you spend your days, even subconsciously. Calling myself a homemaker, combined with the internalized…
