Which stereotype do you fit?

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What if you are both? Lawyers are a dime a dozen here.

Both a lawyer and a SAHM? I'd like to figure out how to make that work--what do you do? And I know we're a dime a dozen--this is DC, people. Didn't say being a lawyer made me original or interesting, just being honest about my feelings. And I used past tense about "feeling superior" --no one knows what being a mom is like until you're a mom yourself. I have the utmost respect for you now, just really afraid to take the plunge, and am looking for some sort of happy medium.

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Anonymous wrote:I look like a WASP. I grew up in New England. And I was homeschooled until 7th grade (much to my regret). Have fun with that one.

... however I'm pretty liberal, and an atheist. As well as a bilingual graduate student. And I'm not a mom yet... I plan on adopting sometime within the next 5 years or so.

then why are you reading and responding to posts on DC urban moms and dads forum?

maybe she is a nanny?

Maybe she is preparing to be a mom.

Right. Because after spending 5 years reading DCUM you would then go on and have children.

I'm that liberal-atheist-not-a-mom-person

Heh.

I actually am a nanny. I nanny PT while I'm taking classes and have been with the same family for 2 years. I have a degree in elementary ed, and am getting an MA in bilingual-bicultura Deaf ed. I plan on adopting children... if not having my own as well. Despite what affect DCUM may have on me

Some of the nannies on here are kind of nuts and the drama gets to be too much. So I do post there occasionally to give advice, but I also tend to peruse all sections, not just that one.

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Anonymous wrote:I look like a WASP. I grew up in New England. And I was homeschooled until 7th grade (much to my regret). Have fun with that one.

... however I'm pretty liberal, and an atheist. As well as a bilingual graduate student. And I'm not a mom yet... I plan on adopting sometime within the next 5 years or so.

then why are you reading and responding to posts on DC urban moms and dads forum?

maybe she is a nanny?

Maybe she is preparing to be a mom.

Right. Because after spending 5 years reading DCUM you would then go on and have children.

I'm that liberal-atheist-not-a-mom-person

Heh.

I actually am a nanny. I nanny PT while I'm taking classes and have been with the same family for 2 years. I have a degree in elementary ed, and am getting an MA in bilingual-bicultura Deaf ed. I plan on adopting children... if not having my own as well. Despite what affect DCUM may have on me

Some of the nannies on here are kind of nuts and the drama gets to be too much. So I do post there occasionally to give advice, but I also tend to peruse all sections, not just that one.

Whoops. Typo. that should say "bicultural" not "bicultura"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

What if you are both? Lawyers are a dime a dozen here.

Both a lawyer and a SAHM? I'd like to figure out how to make that work--what do you do? And I know we're a dime a dozen--this is DC, people. Didn't say being a lawyer made me original or interesting, just being honest about my feelings. And I used past tense about "feeling superior" --no one knows what being a mom is like until you're a mom yourself. I have the utmost respect for you now, just really afraid to take the plunge, and am looking for some sort of happy medium.

I'm sure the PP just meant that you're still a lawyer even if you're not practicing. You have a J.D., you passed the bar, you're licensed, you worked as a lawyer for X number of years, it's your profession. You're still a lawyer even if you are unemployed one at the moment.

I'm one of many lawyer-turned-SAHM and I do consider myself a former lawyer but that's only because I don't have any intention of returning to the practice of law when I go back to work, as I'm sure I will someday. I will make a career switch. In the meantime, I am a gazillion times happier staying at home than I ever was at a firm! Much more time for my passions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I look like a WASP. I grew up in New England. And I was homeschooled until 7th grade (much to my regret). Have fun with that one.

... however I'm pretty liberal, and an atheist. As well as a bilingual graduate student. And I'm not a mom yet... I plan on adopting sometime within the next 5 years or so.

then why are you reading and responding to posts on DC urban moms and dads forum?

maybe she is a nanny?

Maybe she is preparing to be a mom.

The woman screwing the married man from the Post Office didn't have kids but was posting on here...maybe it's her.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I look like a WASP. I grew up in New England. And I was homeschooled until 7th grade (much to my regret). Have fun with that one.

... however I'm pretty liberal, and an atheist. As well as a bilingual graduate student. And I'm not a mom yet... I plan on adopting sometime within the next 5 years or so.

then why are you reading and responding to posts on DC urban moms and dads forum?

maybe she is a nanny?

Maybe she is preparing to be a mom.

The woman screwing the married man from the Post Office didn't have kids but was posting on here...maybe it's her.

See my response to those posters above, preferably before people start thinking that I'm some hidden poster troll. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Liberal East Coast elite (Ivy League degree, public interest job, Prius + house in Chevy Chase). But I think I'm so down with the people b/c I live in CC DC and send my kids to public school.

[Anonymous]

Banana--yellow (Asian) on the outside, white on the inside (elite schools, liberal, NPR-listening, latte-drinking, etc., etc.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Banana--yellow (Asian) on the outside, white on the inside (elite schools, liberal, NPR-listening, latte-drinking, etc., etc.)

a twinkie!

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Anonymous wrote:Banana--yellow (Asian) on the outside, white on the inside (elite schools, liberal, NPR-listening, latte-drinking, etc., etc.)

a twinkie!

Yeah, but twinkies don't come organic (says this Banana who shops at Whole Foods)

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Anonymous wrote:I look like a WASP. I grew up in New England. And I was homeschooled until 7th grade (much to my regret). Have fun with that one.

... however I'm pretty liberal, and an atheist. As well as a bilingual graduate student. And I'm not a mom yet... I plan on adopting sometime within the next 5 years or so.

then why are you reading and responding to posts on DC urban moms and dads forum?

maybe she is a nanny?

Maybe she is preparing to be a mom.

Right. Because after spending 5 years reading DCUM you would then go on and have children.

best. post. ever.

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Anonymous wrote:Everything you've heard about Germans...that's me. I'm never late (if so, it's because of something out of my control) and I love rules...any and all of them. You give me rules, I follow them!!

Apparently I'm German.

I am so German that when I went to Germany I fit right in. I would walk into a store behind other American tourists and they were always greeted in English. I was always greeted in German.

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Anonymous wrote:Americanized Asian gal married to a white guy, have 2 interracial kids.

Me too. I didn't realize there were so many of us out there. I see us EVERYwhere. And, on FB. All these people from high school/college. It's an epidemic.

I don't know my stereotype. I married a (nearly) Americanized Asian man and have two biracial children.

[Anonymous]

Hard working West Indian (no, I am not a nanny and I only have one job).

[Anonymous]

old money new england wasp family, DAR, - money lost in depression, family fued, blah blah blah.