MomTime TV

I learned something today! Whack!

And it should have been so obvious. Uh-huh an ah-ha moment!

Chatting with a friend after church today and another friend comes up. We have a quick conversation about whether we are still Packer fans. Then as she’s leaving she says, “Hey I need to talk to you and get your credentials. You wrote a quote for somebody and I need your credentials.”

“And I know you have a long list,” she adds. I look helplessly over at my other friend who’s smiling and nodding.

And I’ve been telling everybody I talk to about Mom Time TV that I’m “a mom”. And they look at me like “SO WHAT!!!?!”

Well a lot of moms know that’s a pretty hefty qualification for just about anything. But I don’t know a single mom who will give herself credit for what she does and what’s expected of her each day. I don’t think moms get any credit in the world outside the home!

Forget that it’s a 24/7 job, and covers all subject matter available. We are specialists in everything from doctoring to teaching & preaching to organizing to counseling to budgeting to fixing to finding to positioning and building and directing and structuring, not to mention cooking and cleaning and driving and volunteering (for things that are needed and not necessarily our forte) and packing and diagnosing not only our kids symptoms, but the pets too, hitting every birthday on time & with the right gift, shopping and having every possible supply not only in stock but available on a moment’s notice. We have to be able to handle & motivate all the different personalities in our household, we have to look good & smell good even after the baby has thrown up all over us. We’re on time and accountable to everybody’s schedule and the schedule is never the same! Ok you get the jist, this is only the beginning. I could go on!

So why is it that in doing all this, the world looks at a mom as insignificant, as somebody who has given up (stupidly) an opportunity to WORK (for pay). And because she’s done that, she’s not too with it! She probably has very little talent or skill. And heaven forbid, if she’s out of the workplace too long, she won’t qualify for anything.

And why is it that when we’re moms and we know what we’re capable of, that we believe “the world”, that we believe “we are just moms?” How crazy is that?

Oh, and my credentials all took place before I had kids. And it includes an awful lot of very busy years in the TV business working of course in the one & only position that deals with every aspect of station business (training for motherhood I think).

In Malcolm Gladwell’s book, “Outliers” he talks about the 10,000 hours to success. Those who’ve put in the 10,000 hours are then in the position to have success, that is if opportunity knocks, they are able to achieve. So yes, I put my 10,000 hours of training in on the television, marketing, production side of life. And yes I put my 10,000 hours of training into my job as “mom”.

You want credentials?!!!

Bring it!

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