Alexia Delarosa, a 30-year-old stay-at-home mother and content creator from California, has faced considerable sarcasm for her videos on preparing meals from scratch for her children.
Despite the negativity, she remains undeterred in her quest to highlight the beauty, value, and power of motherhood.
Mrs.
Delarosa revealed that she has always had strong maternal instincts.
She enjoyed baking since a young age and worked as a nanny before becoming a mother.
For her, taking care of the home is a small part of a mother’s work.
She emphasizes that it’s crucial for mothers to “raise good human beings” and ensure that children aren’t simply tossed into the world with the hope that they will turn out okay.
That’s going to be the future generation and the people that are making decisions,” she said.
I see great value in [motherhood], and I think everyone else should too.
The young couple discussed their vision for life, which included fulfilling traditional gender roles.
They felt their desires aligned perfectly, with Mrs.
Delarosa wanting to be a stay-at-home mom and Mr.
Delarosa having no intentions of scaling back his business.
Our vision for life aligned,” Mrs.
Delarosa said, adding that she wanted to be a stay-at-home mom, and Mr.
Delarosa had no intentions of scaling back his business.
That’s naturally who he was.
I don’t think it was something that I had to shape him to be to make him fit into my life.
With their lives and desires fitting together like puzzle pieces, they chose to get married.
Now they work together, making their family life run smoothly as they both embrace their roles as parents.
Recognizing that some people think stay-at-home moms live lives of lazy luxury, she remarked that it’s a “full-time job.
Just being home and tending to tiny humans all day is hard work, and taking care of a home all day is hard work.
And I think it gets devalued a lot,” she said.
Mrs.
Delarosa believes American families are in crisis today, with parents and kids seeming to live increasingly separate lives.
She feels the school system and society in general are “just scary now.
There’s just so much disconnect and very little time spent [together], even when I went to school, there are certain things at certain ages that I should not have been exposed to, that my parents had no control of because I was gone for eight hours a day.
I was kind of at the whip, the will of the adults that I was around and the other kids that I was around,” she said.
So.
having too much freedom as a young child can be damaging sometimes.
I think it’s a great decision if people are able to [homeschool their kids.
But I get that it’s not possible for everyone.
Some families, they have to go to work.
There’s no one that can do the homeschooling.
I have a full-time job being a stay-at-home mom,” she said, “and I’ve stacked on extra responsibilities with the social media stuff.
It doubles as my creative outlet.
It’s good for me mentally to be doing that—something on the side that I can do.
Though the crafts and recipes she showcases in the videos can be intricate and time-consuming, she doesn’t expect other moms to try and copy what she does, but rather, she wants to highlight the importance of motherhood.
I hope that people find value in being a stay-at-home mom or see the value in stay-at-home moms [or] just moms in general,” Mrs.
Delarosa said.
I would love for the world to collectively agree that it is a full-time job.
There is great value in having a mom in the home taking care of the kids that you created.