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What Women Believe about Stay-At-Home Dads–Despite What the Church Teaches

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 12, 2021 | Theology of Marriage and Sex

On the whole, women who attend church tend to believe, or are even more likely to believe, several key evangelical teachings about sex. It makes sense. If you invest in your church culture, your beliefs tend to line up with the church culture. And as we found in The...

Have We Made Motherhood Too Hard?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 27, 2019 | Doing Life Together, Parenting Small Children

Does motherhood sound like the most exhausting job in the world? We’re gearing up for Rebecca to deliver really soon, so we’ve been thinking a lot as a family about modern motherhood lately. And at the same time, the news is constantly filled with the...

Reader question: Do Stay at Home Moms Have To Do All The Housework?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 5, 2015 | Emotional Connection, Homemaking

When it comes to splitting household chores, does the wife really have to do all the housework if she stays at home? Every Monday I like to try to answer a Reader Question, and today I’ve got two quite similar ones from two frustrated moms who feel that their...

10 Ways to Banish the Stay-at-Home Mom Blues

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 9, 2014 | Doing Life Together, Homemaking

Are the Stay-at-Home Mom Blues inevitable? I have always been a stay at home mom, but if you judge by the comments of many, I have the personality of a pea. If you’re a stay at home parent, you know what I mean. People constantly remark, “I don’t...

Reader Question: My Husband Thinks the Kids Are All My Job

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 2, 2013 | Family, Resolving Conflict

Every weekend I like to post a question someone sends in and let you readers have a go at it. This week’s question comes from a homemaker, who wants a better balance in the division of labor with her husband: For almost 3 years, I have been a homemaker. When my...

Why I’m at Home: Deciding to Be a Stay at Home Mom

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 7, 2011 | Family

A little while ago I started a firestorm when I wrote about planning my daughter’s future–and how we should consider a career choice that would make deciding to be a stay at home mom easier–if that was the preference. It made me think back to my own...