I was visiting my sister in Minnesota recently. She lives on a 5 acre property as do all her neighbors. I was watching one neighbor across the way load her kids up in the minivan, pull down the driveway and out to the corner about 200 yards away. Here the three kids got out and they waited for the school bus to arrive. Once it came, the mother drove back the 200 yards to her house in reverse and pulled back into the garage. Maybe it's me but the incident just screamed out laziness to me. My sister then informed me that the woman is a stay-at-home mom. Evidently a true stay-at-home mom as the lazy woman can't even walk to the corner, much less drive her kids to and from school.

I have to admit I've never cared for the title stay-at-home mom. I still prefer housewife or homemaker. I guess women felt the term housewife implied subservient to the man but I can't imagine what the problem with homemaker was. I suppose they felt the need to point out that they are a mom so you don't confuse them with one of those women who doesn't have children but doesn't work either spending her days on the golf course and such. Of course how long can you still use the term stay-at-home mom? What if you kids go to college or move out, then what are you? A homemaker I guess.