Written By Suzanne Venker

Gone are the days when children are home with their mothers, when morning meant moving slowly, when kids played outside in their neighborhoods and were called inside at dusk, when TV viewing was limited, when bedtime was early, and when obesity and mental health issues were rare.

That childhood was replaced with daycare, after-school care, fast food, unlimited screen time, latchkey kids, countless extra-curricular activities, no downtime, sleep deprivation, and childhood obesity.

The most powerful voices in America would like us to believe it’s a coincidence that the well being of our nation’s children has declined at the same time there’s been a surge of mothers entering the workforce.

It is no coincidence. Healthy, happy, well-rested children are the tangible result of the work mothers at home do every single day—week after week, month after month, year after year. Just what did we think mothers were for?

What’s missing from the MAHA movement is that someone is providing our nation’s children with the junk they’re consuming. Children don’t have any money. They don’t feed themselves. They don’t do the grocery shopping.

Mothers do.

The first thing that took a hit when mothers left their homes en masse and began working full-time and year-round is home cooking. It came to a screeching halt. Kitchens became lifeless, and a child’s access to food became whatever he could get his hands on; and you can bet it’s never going to be vegetables and fruit.

Oprah Winfrey, back in her heyday, interviewed a woman named Melinda Southern, a pediatric physiologist, who said children are becoming heavier due to a decrease in physical activity made possible by modern transportation, television, computers, and video games—combined with the availability of high-caloric foods such as fast food, convenience foods and snacks.

“Most children who become overweight and obese have a perfectly normal metabolism. The problem isn’t their genes but their environment,” she said.

The work mothers at home do is not like any other work. It is largely invisible to the naked eye, but its power is evident to those who choose to see.

Teaching a human being who has just arrived in the world how to sleep, how to eat, how to love, how to feel safe, and later, how to behave in a social world, is a gift that pays enormous dividends. More than anything, it is our children’s physical and mental health—which ultimately translates to the overall health of America—for which mothers are largely responsible.

Bonding and attachment

The emotional health of every human begins the moment he or she is born. The first three years are critical for building a solid foundation of emotional regulation and resilience, and mothers are in the best position to see that such needs are met. It is possible to achieve with another family member—Dad or Grandma, let’s say—but it is rare with hired help.

There is no one a parent can pay to love a child and to sacrifice for his needs the way a mother will.

The inconvenient truth is that children stopped getting this healthy foundation the moment mothers began entering the marketplace in droves. Ever so slowly, over a long period of time, attachment disorders, anxiety, and ADHD set in. Any attempt to make America healthy again will fail if this reality is rejected or ignored.

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God commands women to be keepers at home so they don’t blaspheme His Word (Titus 2:5). Many are blaspheming His Word.

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Titus 2:5

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