Hello and hope alls well with you & your family. Let’s continue to stay one in prayer.
Whilst we give a shout-out to our medical workers, our civil service employees, sanitary workers, bank employees, journalists, farmers, pharmacy workers, mail carriers, factory workers, grocery suppliers, utility workers, our frontrunners, army & military forces and all those who are working to keep things going in these trying times, I’d like to add one more to this list … A shout out to moms!
Way to go, mommies, let’s keep going, we can do it!
Change is all around us during this time of lockdown. There’s no doubt that everyone is adjusting to this change: physically, mentally, emotionally & spiritually.
Let me blog about how our lives as mothers have changed. Whilst on lockdown we have now also been assigned daily roles of part-time cleaners, cooks on 12-hour duty, gym instructors, Sunday school teachers…you name it! That’s we’ve become as of now. As for mums who are a part of the corporate world, a work from home schedule can be added to this list too.
Besides the fact that we continuously hear cry outs like mom, what’s for breakfast? Mom, where are my earphones? Mom, I’m on a video call! Mom what’s for snack? Mom, what’s for lunch, evening tea, dinner, dessert, fun snack? Mom, my towel please…mom help! Well, all the joys of motherhood coming in double portions at this time.
It’s at this time that women, part of societies who still believe that ‘housework’ belongs to women only, should introduce the concept of ‘QuaranTeam’ in their households. Be politely assertive & introduce this change. The time is now if you’ve not done it already!
A ‘QuaranTeam’ at home may best be described, according to me, as a team (The family) who works collectively to keep the household up & running. A team that works towards maintaining the house as a home.
I watched a live chat recently on how to work effectively from home. A significant issue highlighted was how women are feeling burdened right now, battling between corporate work & housework with not much additional help coming in.
To this group of women, I say: Stand up & build a QuaranTeam!
There’s a great possibility that this concept of QuaranTeam could well turn into a habit after lockdown. After all, we are on lockdown for 21 days or more and it takes 21 days to form a habit. We’ve all been waiting for this habit to be formed; now is the time!
Seize the moment, build a QuaranTeam household today!
