Don't worry, the stay at home moms give us plenty to laugh about. We are fully entertained by their antics. Seriously, if you don't think stay at home moms are a bitchy bunch on DCUM then I don't know what you're reading. |
Crazy RAGE SAHM and crazy engineer WOHM should take their cage match elsewhere. |
+1 The most hateful WOHMs are the ones who didn’t get to choose. |
Well, we can tell by the percentage of posts who had more time to vent on DCUM today. |
Wow, you guys are dense. The issue isn't that she said working moms are bad. The issue, as multiple people noted, is that having the MOM do all the stuff is what some people want to model for their children. If that mom does, fine. But that doesn't mean that others aren't allowed to have other opinions. You're really twisting all the comments together and ignoring the fact that multiple people have commented in a single thread, so it's not like someone making a nasty comment somewhere down the line is saying the same thing as someone who commented upstream. |
“Provider”? Blech. Go back to the 50s |
This post literally started because one SAHM said she ONLY hears vitriol from WOHMs. ONLY. Which is ridiculous. You are right, PP, that there are enormous jerks on both sides. But there doesn't seem to be a general consensus about that from the unhinged SAHMs who keep posting their RAGE posts. |
Door greeter mom here. My husband gets home at 6 or 6:30 on a normal (pre pandemic) day. So he’s home plenty. As soon as he gets home, we sit down to dinner together as a family. Our kids are old enough not to need help with baths anymore but back when they hey we’re little, he did his share of bath time and middle of the night feedings. So your assumptions are totally off. Not every SAHM mom is married to an absentee father. |
Just curious, do you give overweight parents a hard time about the unhealthy diet and exercise habits they’re modeling for their kids? Or the moms who overdo it on nightly wine consumption? If the answer is no, then ask yourself why you feel it’s any of your business to weigh in on other women’s employment choices. |
+1 what a weird argument. My mom was SAHM my whole life and went back to work and eventually became a senior executive after I went to college. I never thought she was lazy or incapable of working. She took care of me and taught me to read and write; she was there for me after school and read books to me even as a teenager. She is very smart and I have a lot of respect for her. My DH and I decided early on that we did not want daycare for our children. It doesn’t make anyone else’s choices invalid. I’m not sure why all the hate in SAHMs here. |
+100 Stop embarrassing yourself |
Well you don’t sound very bright, so there’s that. |
+10000 It’s fine to want to be a SAHM in normal times (Of kids before elementary; after that it’s just ridiculous) but now? Why on earth would that be better? |
The only thing embarrassing is not being able to attract a man who can take care of you and your kids. |
I can’t figure out what took 23 pages of this thread but FWIW I am dying for my nanny to return and she is texting me eager to return too (we are paying her in full while she is out so that is not the issue). I love our old routine and our kids miss her too. I know others will not be the same but FWIW there will be one woman at least who can fully afford to stay home who will absolutely not be doing so. *Especially* after this trial run.
My best wishes to a few ll to stay safe and I know many wish they could have the luxury of this choice. My hearts go out to them too. |