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So math wasn’t my best subject. Alright, it was my worst subject. I’m more of a language person, really. Considering my father taught statistics at the local university, and that everyone in my tiny town knew him, it was rather embarrassing. “Hey, aren’t you supposed to be good at this,” my friends would ask when they got stuck on a math homework problem. “Don’t come crawling to me when you need a paper edited,” I’d snap back.

It turns out you may be to blame for your kids’ math anxiety issues. According to the 2001 report, What Are the Relationships Between Math Anxiety and Educational Levels In Parents and Math Achievement In Their Children? by LeAnn Dahmer of Tennessee State University, parental math anxiety is a contributing factor in their children’s lower test scores.

The purpose of Dahmer’s study was to “clarify the relationship between math anxiety and educational levels in parents and math achievement in their children.” Of sixty-six participating families, information from eighty parents and eighty students was used to calculate the final results.

There are many women that will tell you that motherhood was a dream of theirs since they were little girls. Playing house and mothering every doll and pet then could get their hands on. Then there are other women that will tell you motherhood was nowhere in their agenda for their life and it just sorted happened. It doesn’t really matter which girl you were because right now, we are in the same group… we are moms.

There have been a variety of reports through the years on how much a stay at home mom’s work is worth. I don’t pay too much attention to those because, frankly, moms who work outside the home do much of the same work. How much of it they do may vary, especially if the kids are in daycare. But any good parent works very hard for their family.

What matters to me most is how much I value being a stay at home mom.