Tell me you have never been a stay home parent without telling me. In fact, tell me you never had kids and live in mother’s basement. You cannot wake up whenever you want. Lol. You get up when your kids get up. You get up when they have early morning lacrosse camps and when your three year old doesn’t sleep past 5:30 AM. I have been a SAHM mom for 20 years. Husband has a demanding high net worth job. It is lonely and boring. Though still the right choice for our family as a whole. |
Gullible isn't in the dictionary. |
+1 SAHM and ever since having kids I have never been able to sleep past 6.30 am. My children won’t let me. I had to wake up at 5.30 am this summer to send my older child to a specialized summer camp. |
Many of us are not working corporate jobs. I am teacher. Love my job. A lot of women experience more stress dealing with their husbands than they do at work. |
| Seems like something that would CAUSE feminism. |
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My brother and his wife have the opposite. They both work full time and make about the same. His salary goes entirely to the family / expenses and hers adds to the family pot as needed and the rest she saves to do ( mostly unnecessary) home renovations. My SIL has among commute and works out of the house so she is gone 10-11 hours a day. She does almost nothing related to the kids or cleaning. My brother WFH and does 98% of kid related stuff plus meals and laundry and routine home maintenance. The cleaning is shared by everyone in the family and done on weekends.
My brother got tired of doing pretty much everything but it was the kids that picked up what he stopped doing, not his wife. The kids now make meals and do their own laundry and get their own breakfast and lunch and help out a lot. (They are tweens). I think they also represent a more modern family |
Not PP but I get up whenever I want. After 3rd grade DH took over morning duties and has always done 95% of drop offs and pick ups. |
I’m PP. I do everything in our house because I don’t have a job. And my husband works long stressful hours. You sound really lazy. You can’t pull yourself out of bed to take care of your kids and take a responsibility off your husband’s plate? Wow. |
Right there with you, sister. It is relentless and boring, intensely meaningful and mundane, and my iq points are only called upon periodically. But we have a great family with thriving kids, and husband makes a lot of money in high octane career. Certainly it's been a sacrifice and hurt my ego, but I can't imagine making a different choice if I had to do it over again. And I have a cleaning team. And I had babysitters. So I think having money to "outsouce your problems" certainly makes it easier to be a SAHM. |
Grass is always greener. Had you been a sahm, you would've resented not having a career. I've done it all -- sahm, wohm, PT, FT, wfh. The best is to have a career where you aren't bringing the work home, but that goes for both a man and woman. |
LOL LOL LOL |
That’s only for a few years though. Stay at home parent is the gravy train once kids get into middle school and beyond because they’re largely self sufficient. |
That's the thing, though -- most actually suck at domestic skills and also expect their moneyed men to contribute 50-50. And when they have children, they think basically their job is limited to intensive motherhood, not homemaking. |
I guess it depends on your parenting. I value my time with my kids. That means I wake up with them, make them breakfast, drive them to private school and all their extracurricular activities. I’m not sleeping in or making my husband do drop offs and pick ups because I’m too lazy. |
Their “job” is whatever they and their partner decide. No one wants to be a “homemaker” which is why so much of it gets outsourced. |