When Your Work Is Devalued

Navigating the “What do you do?” question as a stay-at-home-mom

Pamela
Family Matters
Published in
3 min readMay 13, 2020

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A friend of mine once told me that she found it “so annoying” when she saw people with strollers on the train during rush hour. She concluded her rant with a comment along the lines of, “It just makes me think — why on earth are you on the train during rush hour? Where do you need to go so early in the morning?”

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Pamela
Family Matters

I moved to China in 2011. Expat Mum. Freelance writer. Author of— The “M” Word: A Collection of Stories about Miscarriage & Hope.