I’m a working mother, as are many of my colleagues; and I don’t know about them, but I dread Sunday evenings. Exhausted from a weekend of chores, ferrying the children around (town, sports grounds, friends) and socialising, I then have to get ready for the week ahead – organising the children’s kit for school, packing if I'm travelling and the list goes on, so generally Sunday evenings become a tedious routine of a late dinner (so we can fit in more chores during the day and perhaps a bit of work), a mad scurry of finding things needed for the week ahead, a look at a screen (DVD, television or the internet) and a few glasses of wine (to stop the stress). And it’s dull, dull, dull... the same manic running around; a feeling of something precious lost (my own time), and a dread of what I have to manage in the week ahead, and don’t get me wrong, I love my work.
So I was wondering, what do other working mothers do on a Sunday evening?
Working mothers, by the way, make up 68% of the population, 38% of which are in part-time jobs. There is lots of research out there telling us all sorts of different (often contradictory) things about mothers who work: it increases self-esteem, their children are 20% less likely to get an 'A' level but it can have a positive affect on daughters academic achivement; it has also been suggested that the children of working mothers are likely to be fatter! (note – small sample research). I’m sure there’s lots more enlightening studies out there, some of which will make us feel relieved we are working and some of which will make us question what we are doing but what I would really like to know is what other working mothers are doing on a Sunday evening.
Let me know your experience by posting a comment below – perhaps I may personally be encouraged by the replies and develop a new way of doing things, perhaps we all could learn from one another, watch this space...
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