Typical SAHM with school aged kids day

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Anonymous wrote:If I were a day care worker, a chef, a housekeeper, a tutor, a chauffeur etc. I would be worthy. SAHM? Useless.

Thank you. Now we can just refer to your post when people deny that idiots like you actually exist. Have a great night!

You make no sense. Have a great night too.

Seriously? Get a clue.

What exactly is your argument? This thread has proven time and time again what the PP stated is true. If a sahm got a paycheck for any of the things she did during the day she would be "acceptable" "valid" and "fulfilled". No paycheck? Wasting her degree and her life.

Are you the first poster and if so, were you being facetious? Because it certainly came off as being entirely sincere; that is, that you believe SAHMs are worthless. I'll be honest: I can't tell if you're kidding or not.

Considering the original statement states If I were than I would be its pretty easy to deduce that its a SAHM expressing the ridiculous double standard expressed repeatedly in this thread.

[Anonymous]

Oh. My. God. This thread is so embarrassing for WOHM. I finally clicked on it to see why it has so many pages and of course, it's because of the mommy wars! Working moms, don't we have better ways to spend our free time than arguing in the mommy war? Who cares how SAHM spends their day???

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Anonymous wrote:If I sat at home all day I'd wonder what I did too. However if you had any reading comprehension at all you'd see women active in their communities and schools, volunteering, living healthy lives, making homemade meals for their families, and actively helping family members and friends.

You apparently miss all that in your judgment and sheer bitchiness or jealousy. Your loss.

I think the point is that working moms do all this, too.

Ok you win! Your life is officially harder and more miserable! Happy now?

Jesus. I seriously do not understand people who like to play the "who's life is harder" game. Do you really *want* your life to be a miserable grind on a hamster wheel?? lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who does this. Her child are in college and have just graduated. She "cleans the house", works out for three hours a day, and meets friends. I personally don't understand it.

Newsflash: You're not actually her friend if this is the way you think/speak of her to other people.

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Oh, I hope if schools are closed on Friday because of snow, your office have generous leave policy. Good luck!

Thank God you are a SAHM! Heaven forbid your high schoolers have to fend for themselves on snow days!

The PP is the reason people hate SAHMs. As a SAHM myself this is one of the reasons I feel luckiest. I don't have to worry about sick/snow days. I can't imagine trying to juggle who can get time off, who can leave early. I can just focus on my sick child and not try to do that with dealing with work too and worrying if I'm putting my job at jeopardy. I have a lot of respect for WOHMs.

Sorry SAH bitches, I work from home not a problem.

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Oh, I hope if schools are closed on Friday because of snow, your office have generous leave policy. Good luck!

Thank God you are a SAHM! Heaven forbid your high schoolers have to fend for themselves on snow days!

The PP is the reason people hate SAHMs. As a SAHM myself this is one of the reasons I feel luckiest. I don't have to worry about sick/snow days. I can't imagine trying to juggle who can get time off, who can leave early. I can just focus on my sick child and not try to do that with dealing with work too and worrying if I'm putting my job at jeopardy. I have a lot of respect for WOHMs.

Sorry SAH bitches, I work from home not a problem.

Than you aren't a WOHM are you?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh. My. God. This thread is so embarrassing for WOHM. I finally clicked on it to see why it has so many pages and of course, it's because of the mommy wars! Working moms, don't we have better ways to spend our free time than arguing in the mommy war? Who cares how SAHM spends their day???

End of argument: if your kids are in school 6.5 hours per day, do not pretend your life is so difficult, you are akin to a doctor curing cancer, etc. Women in the 60s/70s fought to be allowed in the workplace. Neanderthal men used to not want their wives to work. Now we live in an age where women an pretty much do anything. If that choice is keeping a clean house, napping and doing yoga--it's their choice. I do find two types of SAH--the ones who have husbands with pumped out chests that think keeping a woman at home reflects positively in him. They need the power. They also tend to be the type that don't really value their wives as life moves on (cheat at the office, etc). The second type of guy with a SAH married above himself and she calls the shots and announced she is no longer working. This SAH usually is very well educated and had a formidable career. This poor schlub DH is hen-pecked to a ball-breaker and had the look in his face line he's been castrated. The latter SAH has usually let herself go. The former is working her ass off, botoxing, clothes shopping, etc. because she's hanging on for dear life since she never had a career.

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Anonymous wrote:Reading through these, I would LOVE to be a SAHM to school aged kids. My husband offered when the kids were babies, but I wasn't in to it then. But when the kids are in school all day, it seems to be a lot of working out, cooking, reading, faffing around (I mean that in the nicest way possible). It sounds like my dream weekends on the rare days when DH takes the kids out all day. Who wouldn't want that to be their main activity?

FWIW, I like aspects of my job but I don't kind myself that I'm not out there curing cancer. I could easily make the switch and not feel bad if we had the money.

I could too, but DH wouldn't respect me and my parents raised me to always have my own income/keep my foot in the door (even if part-time for awhile) so I 'need' to work.

I'm fortunate to be a GS-15 WAH Fed. DH makes 3 times my salary, but we use my work's health benefits and I am also contributing towards retirement.

I think it is sad that your husband wouldn't respect you. Really sad.

I wouldn't respect myself if I had 6.5 hours a day of leisure while he was busting his ass to bring home the bacon. Not sad at all. I get SAH in the infant/toddler years--I don't at all in the years where kids are in school all day long.

Everyone's situation is different. My husband makes way more money than we could ever need, so it really does not make sense for me to work. I handle everything else (home, kids schedules, cook, health needs, our social schedule, our aging parents, bills, investing, etc.) It works for us!

I do all of that stuff as well because I have a very flexible, full-time WAH job. If I WOH'd I would not be able to handle the load. I love my job-so there's that too. It is definitely a more stressful life if I didn't work at all, but I need structure and I'd fall into a black hole without work-imposed structure. I need to be busy.

haha, you're obviously not *that* busy if you have time to dick around on here and write this up

[Anonymous]

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Oh, I hope if schools are closed on Friday because of snow, your office have generous leave policy. Good luck!

Thank God you are a SAHM! Heaven forbid your high schoolers have to fend for themselves on snow days!

The PP is the reason people hate SAHMs. As a SAHM myself this is one of the reasons I feel luckiest. I don't have to worry about sick/snow days. I can't imagine trying to juggle who can get time off, who can leave early. I can just focus on my sick child and not try to do that with dealing with work too and worrying if I'm putting my job at jeopardy. I have a lot of respect for WOHMs.

Sorry SAH bitches, I work from home not a problem.

Than you aren't a WOHM are you?

No. I have the best of both worlds and shouldn't be in this argument. I win.

I will take my leave now.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh. My. God. This thread is so embarrassing for WOHM. I finally clicked on it to see why it has so many pages and of course, it's because of the mommy wars! Working moms, don't we have better ways to spend our free time than arguing in the mommy war? Who cares how SAHM spends their day???

End of argument: if your kids are in school 6.5 hours per day, do not pretend your life is so difficult, you are akin to a doctor curing cancer, etc. Women in the 60s/70s fought to be allowed in the workplace. Neanderthal men used to not want their wives to work. Now we live in an age where women an pretty much do anything. If that choice is keeping a clean house, napping and doing yoga--it's their choice. I do find two types of SAH--the ones who have husbands with pumped out chests that think keeping a woman at home reflects positively in him. They need the power. They also tend to be the type that don't really value their wives as life moves on (cheat at the office, etc). The second type of guy with a SAH married above himself and she calls the shots and announced she is no longer working. This SAH usually is very well educated and had a formidable career. This poor schlub DH is hen-pecked to a ball-breaker and had the look in his face line he's been castrated. The latter SAH has usually let herself go. The former is working her ass off, botoxing, clothes shopping, etc. because she's hanging on for dear life since she never had a career.

I am a SAHM and don't fit any of your assumptions.

[Anonymous]

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Oh, I hope if schools are closed on Friday because of snow, your office have generous leave policy. Good luck!

Thank God you are a SAHM! Heaven forbid your high schoolers have to fend for themselves on snow days!

The PP is the reason people hate SAHMs. As a SAHM myself this is one of the reasons I feel luckiest. I don't have to worry about sick/snow days. I can't imagine trying to juggle who can get time off, who can leave early. I can just focus on my sick child and not try to do that with dealing with work too and worrying if I'm putting my job at jeopardy. I have a lot of respect for WOHMs.

Sorry SAH bitches, I work from home not a problem.

Than you aren't a WOHM are you?

No. I have the best of both worlds and shouldn't be in this argument. I win.

I will take my leave now.

Good.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oh. My. God. This thread is so embarrassing for WOHM. I finally clicked on it to see why it has so many pages and of course, it's because of the mommy wars! Working moms, don't we have better ways to spend our free time than arguing in the mommy war? Who cares how SAHM spends their day???

End of argument: if your kids are in school 6.5 hours per day, do not pretend your life is so difficult, you are akin to a doctor curing cancer, etc. Women in the 60s/70s fought to be allowed in the workplace. Neanderthal men used to not want their wives to work. Now we live in an age where women an pretty much do anything. If that choice is keeping a clean house, napping and doing yoga--it's their choice. I do find two types of SAH--the ones who have husbands with pumped out chests that think keeping a woman at home reflects positively in him. They need the power. They also tend to be the type that don't really value their wives as life moves on (cheat at the office, etc). The second type of guy with a SAH married above himself and she calls the shots and announced she is no longer working. This SAH usually is very well educated and had a formidable career. This poor schlub DH is hen-pecked to a ball-breaker and had the look in his face line he's been castrated. The latter SAH has usually let herself go. The former is working her ass off, botoxing, clothes shopping, etc. because she's hanging on for dear life since she never had a career.

How feminist of you. You really respect the choices of your fellow woman don't you. Think so highly of them too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Oh. My. God. This thread is so embarrassing for WOHM. I finally clicked on it to see why it has so many pages and of course, it's because of the mommy wars! Working moms, don't we have better ways to spend our free time than arguing in the mommy war? Who cares how SAHM spends their day???

End of argument: if your kids are in school 6.5 hours per day, do not pretend your life is so difficult, you are akin to a doctor curing cancer, etc. Women in the 60s/70s fought to be allowed in the workplace. Neanderthal men used to not want their wives to work. Now we live in an age where women an pretty much do anything. If that choice is keeping a clean house, napping and doing yoga--it's their choice. I do find two types of SAH--the ones who have husbands with pumped out chests that think keeping a woman at home reflects positively in him. They need the power. They also tend to be the type that don't really value their wives as life moves on (cheat at the office, etc). The second type of guy with a SAH married above himself and she calls the shots and announced she is no longer working. This SAH usually is very well educated and had a formidable career. This poor schlub DH is hen-pecked to a ball-breaker and had the look in his face line he's been castrated. The latter SAH has usually let herself go. The former is working her ass off, botoxing, clothes shopping, etc. because she's hanging on for dear life since she never had a career.

+1

My neighborhood has mostly the educated, former lawyer ball-breakers with wimpy looking husbands. There are a few trophy SAHMs, but they are t allowed in The SAHM cliques because they didn't go to right schools or have a career at one time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Oh. My. God. This thread is so embarrassing for WOHM. I finally clicked on it to see why it has so many pages and of course, it's because of the mommy wars! Working moms, don't we have better ways to spend our free time than arguing in the mommy war? Who cares how SAHM spends their day???

End of argument: if your kids are in school 6.5 hours per day, do not pretend your life is so difficult, you are akin to a doctor curing cancer, etc. Women in the 60s/70s fought to be allowed in the workplace. Neanderthal men used to not want their wives to work. Now we live in an age where women an pretty much do anything. If that choice is keeping a clean house, napping and doing yoga--it's their choice. I do find two types of SAH--the ones who have husbands with pumped out chests that think keeping a woman at home reflects positively in him. They need the power. They also tend to be the type that don't really value their wives as life moves on (cheat at the office, etc). The second type of guy with a SAH married above himself and she calls the shots and announced she is no longer working. This SAH usually is very well educated and had a formidable career. This poor schlub DH is hen-pecked to a ball-breaker and had the look in his face line he's been castrated. The latter SAH has usually let herself go. The former is working her ass off, botoxing, clothes shopping, etc. because she's hanging on for dear life since she never had a career.

+1

My neighborhood has mostly the educated, former lawyer ball-breakers with wimpy looking husbands. There are a few trophy SAHMs, but they are t allowed in The SAHM cliques because they didn't go to right schools or have a career at one time.

And this right here is where the thread will completely dissolve into farce.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh. My. God. This thread is so embarrassing for WOHM. I finally clicked on it to see why it has so many pages and of course, it's because of the mommy wars! Working moms, don't we have better ways to spend our free time than arguing in the mommy war? Who cares how SAHM spends their day???

End of argument: if your kids are in school 6.5 hours per day, do not pretend your life is so difficult, you are akin to a doctor curing cancer, etc. Women in the 60s/70s fought to be allowed in the workplace. Neanderthal men used to not want their wives to work. Now we live in an age where women an pretty much do anything. If that choice is keeping a clean house, napping and doing yoga--it's their choice. I do find two types of SAH--the ones who have husbands with pumped out chests that think keeping a woman at home reflects positively in him. They need the power. They also tend to be the type that don't really value their wives as life moves on (cheat at the office, etc). The second type of guy with a SAH married above himself and she calls the shots and announced she is no longer working. This SAH usually is very well educated and had a formidable career. This poor schlub DH is hen-pecked to a ball-breaker and had the look in his face line he's been castrated. The latter SAH has usually let herself go. The former is working her ass off, botoxing, clothes shopping, etc. because she's hanging on for dear life since she never had a career.

+1

My neighborhood has mostly the educated, former lawyer ball-breakers with wimpy looking husbands. There are a few trophy SAHMs, but they are t allowed in The SAHM cliques because they didn't go to right schools or have a career at one time.

And this right here is where the thread will completely dissolve into farce.

Ha! It's a pretty accurate depiction of my close-in wealthy neighborhood. Most moms have found a way to telework or go in only a few days. They were talented enough to have their Office accommodate them once they had kids.