A conservative Christian mom blogger has caused an uproar on social media after posting a chart called "Should Mothers Have Careers?" The chart is, according to most moms in the comments, absolutely ridiculous.
Lori Alexander posted the chart on the Transformed Wife, her blog about Christian motherhood and marriage. The text is set up like a flowchart, with working moms' lives on one side and stay-at-home moms' lives on the other.
On the working mom side, life progressively gets worse and worse.
"Away from home hours every day," the chart reads. "Comes home exhausted. Dinner is usually fast food or microwaved." Also: "Too tired for intimacy with husband."
For stay-at-home moms, though, life is apparently a breeze.
"Home all day long," the chart says. "Rests while her children nap. Dinner is from scratch, nutritious, and delicious. Reads to children, plays games, disciplines, teaches about Jesus all day long."
Spoiler alert: The chart concludes that stay-at-home moms have way better lives.
Well, both working moms and stay-at-home moms flocked to Lori's comments to prove her wrong, and their responses are spot-on.
This is Lori Alexander, the blogger behind the Transformed Wife. She blogs about "marriage, raising children, homemaking, and being a godly woman who desired to be transformed into the image of Christ," according to her Facebook page.
Lori has been married for 39 years, and she has four kids and nine grandkids — so to her more than 91,000 followers, she's a source of wisdom for all things Christian motherhood.
Unlike most trendy mommy blogs, this one isn't filled with gorgeous photos of adorable kids.
Nope. Instead, you'll find handwritten advice for being a submissive Christian wife and mom, like this tidbit about cooking for your husband.
And this photo, which explains that men prefer debt-free virgins without tattoos.
And this one about how you should complete your man, not compete with him.
Look, everyone has their own beliefs, and I'm trying really hard not to laugh or judge.
But recently, Lori really fanned the flames by posting this flowchart about working moms vs. stay-at-home moms. The post has nearly 2,000 comments and counting, and well… you can see why.
Needless to say, people were stunned. The post insists that stay-at-home motherhood is the best way of life for the entire family in every single way — and also makes being a stay-at-home mom look picturesque and easy!
Many of the comments on the post are from wives and mothers who really don't appreciate being pitted against other moms.
Many moms couldn't relate to the post at all.
And some couldn't help but make fun of it.
Others took personal offense, and they shared their own stories to debunk the idea that working moms are inferior.
Some moms pointed out the falseness in equating stay-at-home moms to Christian moms and vice versa.
Including some moms who identify as devout Christians themselves — and dare to work outside the home. Gasp!
Now that the post is drowning in angry comments, Lori hasn't bothered to reply to most of them.
But in response to one mom who said she's never once been able to rest while her children napped, Lori did have something to say.
"It's your own fault if you didn't nap when your children napped," she wrote. "There are areas that we have full control over as mothers being home full time."
And there you have it, moms. It's that simple! Quit your job if you have one, and everything will be perfect. (That was sarcasm, Lori.)
