Women will soon return to becoming full time 'stay-at-home mothers.’
Last night, while sitting on the lawn in a public park, enjoying the freshness of the fre air, I shared a perspective with my wife about the future of parenting.
In the coming decades, women will begin to prefer staying at home and nurturing their kids rather than working outside the home.
And this is not for religious reasons but social ones.
Understandably, most women are now as busy as, or even busier than, their husbands in the challenging world of career pursuits.
Most times, it's for financial reasons. A small amount of money is no longer enough to sustain a family anywhere in the world these days. This necessitates everyone working so they can earn enough to cater to the family.
But this doesn’t come without a price. We're now too busy to spend 30 minutes with our kids daily without distraction.
We either outsource our parenting roles to house helps and teachers or allow social media to fill the gap.
The implications are evident in what we see daily in our classrooms.
My wife and I are both teachers, teaching science and mathematics-related subjects, and every day when we return from school, we share some interesting stories from our workday and also have new ugly experiences to share regarding how some of the students are behaving in the classroom. Nine times out of ten, these behaviors are due to parental negligence.
Our children are tearing apart the moral fabric of society, daring all the consequences as they explore their curiosity, breaking all rules and values.
In one of such experiences, a teacher shared how one of his students told him that for the past 20 days, he hadn’t slept at night. He sleeps after school until around 7 p.m., and after that, he won’t sleep again until the next day after school. Once he said that, another student remarked, "Sir, this has been my sleeping routine for the last two years; nothing is wrong with it."
That day alone, the teacher observed three students in two classes who hadn’t slept throughout the night. This is becoming a common trend.
But guess what they’re doing at night instead of sleeping? Yes, you guessed right—social media.
This is only one of many examples.
Drugs, pornography, social media addiction, and gambling are a few of the negative trends.
Guess what? Your child could also be one of them, since you’re too busy to pay attention to them and raise them as your parents dedicated themselves to raising you.
Most sadly, I might be guilty too.
It's sad, it's painful, and one can only be afraid of what future generations will look like.
The future of the coming generation is bright when it comes to making money and technological advancement, but it's terrible when it comes to morality. So many terrible things await, and only the parents who commit to their role today might be saved. Hence why I think mothers will soon return to full time mothering job.
I know what you might be thinking:
“So, after I spent 12 years in school, I will come back home and sit for the rest of my life?”
Before I tell you how it’ll work, it’s important to know that this mentality of “because I went to school, I must work” is what has led your teenage daughter to experience multiple abortions and your teenage son to become a drug addict while gambling, all without you knowing.
Now, let’s get to my prediction.
Absolutely, I don’t see women sitting at home doing nothing economically.
What I think will happen is that, at a point, we’ll all realize our mistakes and the consequences of our negligence and retrace our steps. In an attempt to do that, we’ll create several online economic opportunities where women will work from home, feel fulfilled in their careers, and raise their kids without leaving the comfort of their bedrooms.
It’s possible, it’s workable, it’s already happening, and it will become the norm.
It’s only a matter of time.
Until then, know that our current parenting model, where mothers are equally as busy as fathers, is tearing apart the moral fabric of our society, and we will all pay for it.
See you soon.