Parenthood is a sacrafice- there's not way around it.

I liked the discussion of this week, but today's topic was definately the best in my opinion. I never knew that just something so simple as the mother entering the workforce would have such a huge and lasting effect on children! This is a topic that has weighted on my mind for quite a while because I really like the field I'm going in to, and I really like working and feeling financially productive. At the same time I knew that the prophets discouraged mothers working outside of the home, but I always hoped that I would be the exception. Well, guess what- I'm not the exception (after all, everyone can't be the exception). I think that parenting is a sacrafice. Fathers have to sacrafice time with the family and their personal ambitions to work, and mothers have to sacrafice the respect and satisfaction the comes from working outside the home and her own personal ambitions to be with the children. The thing is, though, that it's worth it in the end. We want to be like Heavenly Father. He's not Heavenly Businessman, or Heavenly Nanny- He's our father, and we're his "work and glory." I almost feel like making our families anything less than our "work and glory" is unacceptable to Heavenly Father. But this is just my opinion so take it for what it's worth.