Rewarding, exhausting: Stay-at-home parents reflect on the realities of care

Rewarding, exhausting: Stay-at-home parents reflect on the realities of care

MANSFIELD — There was a time when Tiffany Montgomery never dreamed she’d be a stay-at-home mom. It’s what her mother and grandmother had done, but it wasn’t what she envisioned for herself.  “I never really saw the value of what my mom was doing until years and years later,” Montgomery said. “I kind of looked down on stay-at-home moms for a while. I was like, ‘I want a career. I want to travel.'” When Tiffany got pregnant with their oldest child…