World Of Moms Feature: Five Reasons Motherhood Isn't A Woman's "Most Important Job"

Yes, you read that headline right. I know you must be wondering what this post is doing on a parenting site and wondering whether this was written by a mother at all. To put your mind at ease, yes I am a mother. I am a full-time, work from home mother with two kids under the age of five. I also live outside India, far away from doting grandparents and I put in a lot of work to raise my kids. Yet nothing irks me more than when people casually remark that I might be working so hard, but I must be gloriously happy as being a mother is the most important job in the world. Well, I am here to tell you that it is not and here is why. ((For the rest of this post, please do head to World Of Moms, where I will be posting on all things Parenting.))