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One of the most timeless roles for women is the role of caregiver for children. For thousands of years women have cared for their young while their mates went off to hunt for food or (more recently) to bring home money. Stay at home moms have always had a tough, unforgiving job, and today's moms are no exception. To learn more about a stay at home mom's responsibilities, consult this article. We guarantee you'll never refer to anyone as "just a mom" again.

Child Care

When you stay at home to look after your own child, you don't get coffee breaks, lunch breaks, or weekends off. You're on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for at least 18 years or until your child moves on and buys his or her own place. This means thousands of diaper changes and feedings. Millions of scoldings, hugs, cuddles, and comforting words. This means first aid and teaching and being an entertainment director and chauffeuring your child to activities.

Housekeeping

Stay at home moms almost always have the burden of caring for the house as well. While big problems like the refrigerator breaking down are usually farmed out to repairmen, less technical jobs are done by the moms. This includes everyday tasks like doing the laundry, washing the dishes, wiping down the counters, sweeping and mopping the floors, and cleaning the bathrooms as well as bigger yearly jobs like cleaning the walls and organizing the storage spaces.

Cooking

The job of keeping the other family members fed also falls to the mom 99 times out of 100. For moms of babies this means mixing up the baby formula and keeping laundry going. For moms of school age kids, this means packing lunches. Many have to do both. And then of course there's the preparation of the big meal at the end of the day when Daddy comes home from work and the kids are off school and the preparation of the many snacks kids always want.

Errands

When the house needs something, like a new cabinet or a vacuum cleaner or some groceries, guess who goes out to get these things? Mom! Whether it's dropping by the electricity company office to pay the bill, going to the bank for cash, mailing all the household correspondence, picking things up at the cleaners, or shopping for gifts, the mom must handle it because she's the one who's home during business hours. And most of the time she has to take the kids unless they're old enough to go to school. Luckily, times are and have changed in many ways and the man of the household is helping out a lot more around the home.