When people say they are not SAHM material

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how people say they would be bored by spending time with their own children.

Think about it for longer than it takes to hit "reply" and send some scathing comment back.

They are developing and learning and growing at a rapid fire pace, they are full of wonder and joy, they are not bitter or jaded, and they are your offspring. They are little miracles, each and every one.

But post after post claims they find all that boring.

NP here. I'm not interested in stuffed animals, train sets, and singing nursery rhymes. Why would I be?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how people say they would be bored by spending time with their own children.

Think about it for longer than it takes to hit "reply" and send some scathing comment back.

They are developing and learning and growing at a rapid fire pace, they are full of wonder and joy, they are not bitter or jaded, and they are your offspring. They are little miracles, each and every one.

But post after post claims they find all that boring.

NP here. I'm not interested in stuffed animals, train sets, and singing nursery rhymes. Why would I be?

Are those things you need to do to play with your kids? Nope. Your kids just want to interact with you - they don't care much about how. Play your favorite rock music. Go for a walk. Tell them about your day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how people say they would be bored by spending time with their own children.

Think about it for longer than it takes to hit "reply" and send some scathing comment back.

They are developing and learning and growing at a rapid fire pace, they are full of wonder and joy, they are not bitter or jaded, and they are your offspring. They are little miracles, each and every one.

But post after post claims they find all that boring.

NP here. I'm not interested in stuffed animals, train sets, and singing nursery rhymes. Why would I be?

Are those things you need to do to play with your kids? Nope. Your kids just want to interact with you - they don't care much about how. Play your favorite rock music. Go for a walk. Tell them about your day.

They are asleep for hours and hours and I can't leave the house, that is boring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how people say they would be bored by spending time with their own children.

Think about it for longer than it takes to hit "reply" and send some scathing comment back.

They are developing and learning and growing at a rapid fire pace, they are full of wonder and joy, they are not bitter or jaded, and they are your offspring. They are little miracles, each and every one.

But post after post claims they find all that boring.

NP here. I'm not interested in stuffed animals, train sets, and singing nursery rhymes. Why would I be?

Are those things you need to do to play with your kids? Nope. Your kids just want to interact with you - they don't care much about how. Play your favorite rock music. Go for a walk. Tell them about your day.

Just, please, for the love of god stop. You're being ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What do they really mean by that?

It always makes me scratch my head because don't you parent your kids on the weekends? It's like that but every day. And they go to school for a good chunk of it (including the preschool years)...

To me it means I'm not of the rich husband/family money material. We need two incomes to support our family, ergo neither of us is stay at home material.

+1. I wish I could be a SAHM, but we can't afford it.

Same here. And it's not like I'm going to go into detail with anyone who isn't a close friend about why we both work. So, to the rando SAHM I run into at the playground who wants to know why I don't stay home, a pleasant "It's not for me!" should suffice.

+1. For many, many of us, it's not a simple answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how people say they would be bored by spending time with their own children.

Think about it for longer than it takes to hit "reply" and send some scathing comment back.

They are developing and learning and growing at a rapid fire pace, they are full of wonder and joy, they are not bitter or jaded, and they are your offspring. They are little miracles, each and every one.

But post after post claims they find all that boring.

NP here. I'm not interested in stuffed animals, train sets, and singing nursery rhymes. Why would I be?

Are those things you need to do to play with your kids? Nope. Your kids just want to interact with you - they don't care much about how. Play your favorite rock music. Go for a walk. Tell them about your day.

what kind of crazy person thinks her kids would rather talk about mommy's day then play with trains and toys? lady, you are way too invested in being the center of your kids lives.

[Anonymous]

Is this a joke?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how people say they would be bored by spending time with their own children.

Think about it for longer than it takes to hit "reply" and send some scathing comment back.

They are developing and learning and growing at a rapid fire pace, they are full of wonder and joy, they are not bitter or jaded, and they are your offspring. They are little miracles, each and every one.

But post after post claims they find all that boring.

NP here. I'm not interested in stuffed animals, train sets, and singing nursery rhymes. Why would I be?

Are those things you need to do to play with your kids? Nope. Your kids just want to interact with you - they don't care much about how. Play your favorite rock music. Go for a walk. Tell them about your day.

They are asleep for hours and hours and I can't leave the house, that is boring.

Read a book? Start a hobby? Let them sleep in the car? Get a job?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how people say they would be bored by spending time with their own children.

Think about it for longer than it takes to hit "reply" and send some scathing comment back.

They are developing and learning and growing at a rapid fire pace, they are full of wonder and joy, they are not bitter or jaded, and they are your offspring. They are little miracles, each and every one.

But post after post claims they find all that boring.

NP here. I'm not interested in stuffed animals, train sets, and singing nursery rhymes. Why would I be?

Are those things you need to do to play with your kids? Nope. Your kids just want to interact with you - they don't care much about how. Play your favorite rock music. Go for a walk. Tell them about your day.

what kind of crazy person thinks her kids would rather talk about mommy's day then play with trains and toys? lady, you are way too invested in being the center of your kids lives.

I'm pretty sure when you mostly ignore your kids they will take any attention you throw their way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how people say they would be bored by spending time with their own children.

Think about it for longer than it takes to hit "reply" and send some scathing comment back.

They are developing and learning and growing at a rapid fire pace, they are full of wonder and joy, they are not bitter or jaded, and they are your offspring. They are little miracles, each and every one.

But post after post claims they find all that boring.

NP here. I'm not interested in stuffed animals, train sets, and singing nursery rhymes. Why would I be?

Are those things you need to do to play with your kids? Nope. Your kids just want to interact with you - they don't care much about how. Play your favorite rock music. Go for a walk. Tell them about your day.

Seriously? I'm the NP who wrote this, and my toddler doesn't want to hear about my day or listen to rock music. He wants to listen to nursery rhyme music and plane trains.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how people say they would be bored by spending time with their own children.

Think about it for longer than it takes to hit "reply" and send some scathing comment back.

They are developing and learning and growing at a rapid fire pace, they are full of wonder and joy, they are not bitter or jaded, and they are your offspring. They are little miracles, each and every one.

But post after post claims they find all that boring.

NP here. I'm not interested in stuffed animals, train sets, and singing nursery rhymes. Why would I be?

Are those things you need to do to play with your kids? Nope. Your kids just want to interact with you - they don't care much about how. Play your favorite rock music. Go for a walk. Tell them about your day.

Seriously? I'm the NP who wrote this, and my toddler doesn't want to hear about my day or listen to rock music. He wants to listen to nursery rhyme music and plane trains.

By the way, my husband's deployed, so I spend all my time outside of work with my child, so don't give me that "you're ignoring your child" line. He's only in daycare 8 hours a day, and 1-2 days a week I pick him up for lunch. If being a SAHM works for you, GREAT. It doesnt' work for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how people say they would be bored by spending time with their own children.

Think about it for longer than it takes to hit "reply" and send some scathing comment back.

They are developing and learning and growing at a rapid fire pace, they are full of wonder and joy, they are not bitter or jaded, and they are your offspring. They are little miracles, each and every one.

But post after post claims they find all that boring.

NP here. I'm not interested in stuffed animals, train sets, and singing nursery rhymes. Why would I be?

But that's the point. You are not the one playing with these things, obviously. Your child is. And you should be interested in their development and growth enough to want to be part of their imagination, creativity, how they learn to play more complex roles versus parallel play, the new words they use, how they can explain ideas.
I really all of the bored mothers who think spending tkme with their child is mind numbing would benefit from learning about child development and how to interact and teach their children. Truly, no snark intended.
If you really think that being a hands on and interactive parent means being bored and sitting watching a child play, then you are really missing out.
I think maybe some moms have never been around their children long enough to learn and grow as a mother with them, and that is a loss to both parent and child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how people say they would be bored by spending time with their own children.

Think about it for longer than it takes to hit "reply" and send some scathing comment back.

They are developing and learning and growing at a rapid fire pace, they are full of wonder and joy, they are not bitter or jaded, and they are your offspring. They are little miracles, each and every one.

But post after post claims they find all that boring.

NP here. I'm not interested in stuffed animals, train sets, and singing nursery rhymes. Why would I be?

Are those things you need to do to play with your kids? Nope. Your kids just want to interact with you - they don't care much about how. Play your favorite rock music. Go for a walk. Tell them about your day.

what kind of crazy person thinks her kids would rather talk about mommy's day then play with trains and toys? lady, you are way too invested in being the center of your kids lives.

Who should the center of a baby's life?
A 1 year old? At 2 years? 3 years?
If not their mother or father?
This is the strangest thread I have ever read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how people say they would be bored by spending time with their own children.

Think about it for longer than it takes to hit "reply" and send some scathing comment back.

They are developing and learning and growing at a rapid fire pace, they are full of wonder and joy, they are not bitter or jaded, and they are your offspring. They are little miracles, each and every one.

But post after post claims they find all that boring.

NP here. I'm not interested in stuffed animals, train sets, and singing nursery rhymes. Why would I be?

But that's the point. You are not the one playing with these things, obviously. Your child is. And you should be interested in their development and growth enough to want to be part of their imagination, creativity, how they learn to play more complex roles versus parallel play, the new words they use, how they can explain ideas.
I really all of the bored mothers who think spending tkme with their child is mind numbing would benefit from learning about child development and how to interact and teach their children. Truly, no snark intended.
If you really think that being a hands on and interactive parent means being bored and sitting watching a child play, then you are really missing out.
I think maybe some moms have never been around their children long enough to learn and grow as a mother with them, and that is a loss to both parent and child.

I assure you, my child and I are happier with me working. Seriously, get over yourself.