6. Expand Your Horizons
When you leave the workforce, you limit life experiences, narrowing your world considerably. You don’t go out as frequently as you did before becoming a parent. In fact, your driver’s license probably gets less use than TV remote.
If you have a college degree, it begins to lose its importance as advances in technology and new studies turn it into an obsolete recognition that you received many years earlier.
Unless you remain invested in your career, you tend to lose touch with these changes, limiting your value to prospective employers.They know it, and you understand it too.
If you continue to work even though you are a stay-at-home mom, you can continue to learn and expand your knowledge. As you take on a stay-at-home career, you will expand your horizons as you interact with clients, customers, fellow employees, or employers.
Even if you do so remotely, you are still engaging in the kind of adult conversation that can keep you mentally alert and content with your life in general. Moms who stop working in order to raise their children tend to find themselves interacting with other moms, limiting their exposure to the world and what is going on in it outside of daycare, pre-school, and school.