Letters from Our Readers

This is in response to stay-at-home mom, Niki Smith.

I want to praise you and your husband for choosing your children first. I feel that when you choose to have children you should be willing to put them first and not "things."

I'm not going to tell you it was always easy, especially when everything decides to break at one time. But you will find a way.

I was a nurse and loved my job but when our first son was born my husband and I did not want to choose between going to work or being with him when he was sick. Also, if you work your child will be away from you approximately nine hours a day. I worked as you, keeping children, cleaning houses (I took him with me) and anything I could do from home.

Don't even bother with people who think you have free time since you stay home. You don't owe them anything.

God bless you and your family. You and your husband have chosen the most important and rewarding path in life - bringing up your children yourselves.

Kathy Sanders
Forest Park