SAHMs - what made you decide to SAH? Question from new SAHM

[Anonymous]

I WOH and I am so glad that I have SAHM- friends. Seriously, they are invaluable to me! For example, one is organizing a fun cookie decorating party...something I wish I had time to do but can't. Luckily, my friends have fun ideas and include us in them. Plus, my SAHM friends are super effiecent have great ideas that help me alot...some parenting stuff (like what gets out vomit stains? how can I efficiently make baby food? best diaper deals, what park has the best playground?) takes experience. And I am able to offer them lots in return too!!

I think SAHM's are wonderful; just as WOHM's are wonderful. Why can't we appreciate what each other has to offer?? No "one group" of moms is better than another. And no one group is gaurantted anything in life, including a "better" child!

[Anonymous]

If there is myopia, then let's discuss and not attack. The posts by SAHMs who say that their DHs would have to pick up more chores and that the family would have less time to relax together if mom went back to work strike me as showing a lack of understanding of the dynamics of dual WOHP households, especially those with older children.

My children are all in elementary school now, and my time with my children nowadays looks much more similar to the way SAHMs interact with their kids. At this point, the main things are what activity/ies the kid(s) are involved in and how much homework they have, rather than the mom's work schedule.

[Anonymous]

*crickets*

[Anonymous]

"Does it really seem out there to suspect that the family that has a sahm -someone who has chosen to make her child's well-being her career, might have an edge in having a high achieving kid? "

Are you kidding? Here we go with the "edge" crap.

[Anonymous]

"Does it really seem out there to suspect that the family that has a sahm -someone who has chosen to make her child's well-being her career, might have an edge in having a high achieving kid? "

You could agrue that a child in a good daycare has numerous teachers who have chosen to make children's well-being their careers, and have degrees in early childhood education to prove it.

[Anonymous]

"Does it really seem out there to suspect that the family that has a sahm -someone who has chosen to make her child's well-being her career, might have an edge in having a high achieving kid? "

Aren't most SAHMs taking the EASY way?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Does it really seem out there to suspect that the family that has a sahm -someone who has chosen to make her child's well-being her career, might have an edge in having a high achieving kid? "

You could agrue that a child in a good daycare has numerous teachers who have chosen to make children's well-being their careers, and have degrees in early childhood education to prove it.

Of course, I'm sure that a daycare worker would have more interest in my child's being than me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Does it really seem out there to suspect that the family that has a sahm -someone who has chosen to make her child's well-being her career, might have an edge in having a high achieving kid? "

You could agrue that a child in a good daycare has numerous teachers who have chosen to make children's well-being their careers, and have degrees in early childhood education to prove it.

Of course, I'm sure that a daycare worker would have more interest in my child's being than me.

For some of these women, that's probably true.

[Anonymous]

"Of course, I'm sure that a daycare worker would have more interest in my child's being than me. "

Or your DH. Do you homeschool?

[Anonymous]

"Of course, I'm sure that a daycare worker would have more interest in my child's being than me. "

Than I.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Of course, I'm sure that a daycare worker would have more interest in my child's being than me. "

Or your DH. Do you homeschool?

Teacher's have specialized content knowledge and training, that renders them more capable of teaching academic content than I do. Daycare workers are not capable of providing the love, concern, moral guidance towards my child that I would.

[Anonymous]

Oh my gosh, I can't believe this thread is still going on! Any SAHM who is posting now should realize that she's primarily arguing with one working mom poster who always continues these threads ad infinitum: the one who uses quotation marks instead of a quote box, addresses each opposing post separately, and just won't quit. Not worth it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Teacher's have specialized content knowledge and training, that renders them more capable of teaching academic content than I do.

LOL.

[Anonymous]

How do you use a quote box?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you use a quote box?

Look up to the right of this text box. Do you see a small box that says "quote"? Click it, and you will see your comments, and then my comments, with the words quote+Anonymous" around them. Type your text in and hit submit -- and you will have nested quote boxes.