Colorado Technical University

How many of you stay at home moms have college degrees?

I'm not trying to diss anyone, I don't think a mom with a college degree is necessarily any better than a mom without one. I'm just curious. I have a bachelor's degree in Communications. I also stay home with my three kids. Do any of you ever feel like people wonder why you have a college degree if you aren't out in the workforce using it?

Public Comments

1. I do, I have a PhD.
2. I don't have a college degree but am qualified to do many things. Also am looking at studying for a degree online. Just have to decide what I want to do lol
3. college degree and law degree. edit -- yeah, people i barely know have told me i'm "wasting" my degree. i'm baffled by that. i worked five years before having kids, and will have a couple decades to work after my kids are all off to school. i'm not sure how taking some time off to raise my kids counts as wasting my degree....
4. I have a Masters Degree in Education. I taught 2nd grade for 15 years and 5th grade for 11 years. I now stay home to concentrate on my youngest daughter who is dyslexic. We do dual enrollment (part home school, part private school.) Unfortunately, I was not able to stay home with my 3 older children as I was a single parent for many years. I admire moms who choose to stay home and raise their children. There is no job more important and I feel blessed to be able to do it now.
5. I haven't got a college degree but I did go to Tafe and do a course and I have had plenty of experience in different types of employment. But to have a degree would probably help when time comes to go back to the work force. :)
6. I do and I stay home to take care of my kid...When you become a mother your priorities become different..
7. I have an associate and I am working toward my BA now. I would have been finished but I have been going to school off and on for about 8 years. Kids, marriage, working...it all has gotten in the way. I will be through....hopefully but 2010..sigh...
8. I have a B.S. from the University of Michigan and I stay home. I also homeschool.
9. not me and i love it
10. I was a stay-at-home mom because we had our office in our home. When my kids were growing up, I didn't have a college degree because I was raising kids. Raising kids is the #1 job a mom can have. BTW, I got my AA when my oldest was 18 (I was 39). I then got my BS when I was 47. My daughter has her BS and is a stay-at-home mom. She finished while she was pregnant!
11. I am an Ivy League graduate and a proud stay at home mother. I do not feel that I am "wasting" my degree in any way--I had a lucrative, fulfilling career for years before my son was born, and while I tried going back to work, I realized that being home with my baby was what I really wanted to do. I have no regrets (though I do admit to the occasional expected boredom). There is nothing "wasteful" about being a full-time parent to your children.
12. I have a college degree, a master's degree and a law degree. A mom's qualification has nothing to do with her education. It depends on her capacity to love and nurture.
13. I have a Master's Degree and have stayed home for five years with children.
14. I have an Associates Degree in Paralegal Studies, and I am a stay-at-home-hom. In my case, my parents told me in high school that they would assist with paying for college only if I went to an in-state school and enrolled into a program that they deemed acceptable. So basically, the school that I had my heart set one (the one in the next state over) was out, so I didn't bother to take the SAT's, and I ended up enrolling in the first school that I came across that didn't require them, and chose between the programs that my mom thought were okay. As soon as I started that school, I regretted it, but I did finish and graduate, and now my parents mention to me from time to time about how much of a waste of time and money it all was, and my husband will tell people about how Miss College Degree doesn't make any money. (He never even got his GED). I hate hearing about all that, but I'm not at all interesting in being some jerk lawyers secretary, and besides that, we live in a rural area where there is no call for 'fancy' jobs like that. And before I had my son, when I applied for positions, I was always told I was 'overqualified' for what it was. Now, I wish I had just decided to wait, or pay for college on my own, because going was a waste, but staying home with my son? Nothing negative about that at all!
15. I have a masters in Elementary Education with a specialization in reading problems. I am a SAHM now and very happy. As far as what other people think, I don't really care. I can only do what is best for me not everyone else.
16. I'm a stay at home mom working on a degree. I know you didn't ask for that category. We feel it has been the best option for us not to put our kids into daycare:)
17. I have a bachelors in Journalism and a Law Degree. I as a lawyer for 4 years before having my son. I,too, get the "wasted degree" comment. I ignore it now, but it was hard at first.
18. I have a doctorate.
19. I have a bachelors in social science and I stay home with my 7 year old and 8 month old. I had my oldest during my first year of college, and finished that degree and tried another one, so I didn't begin to work in my field of study before having my second. There are times where I think it would be nice to go to work and put my degree to use when the baby starts kindergarten, but I love staying home with them so much that I'm not quite sure I will.
20. I have both a Bachelor and Masters degree.
21. I have a B.A. in English. I read once that the higher level of education a mother has the more likely her child will have a high IQ. But this has nothing to do with staying at home or being employed - it was strictly based on level of education.
22. I don't.. straight out of high school I started my family. I am 29 and never attended college or did anything most people do in their 20's.. I have been a mom since I was 20 and its the only thing in this world I want to be doing! I do work part time in the Deli/Bakery at our local grocery store but during the day I stay at home with our 3 children and I homeschool our 2 oldest ones.