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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually don't care what people do. I just care how they talk about it.  And I've found a lot of SAHMs talk about staying home as if I'm all but dooming my kids to prison by being a working mom.

"Do they even know you?"
"Do you die inside when they cry for the nanny instead of you?" 
"You'll never get this time back." [/quote]

I agree.  I don't really care whether you work or stay at home with your kids.  I care if you are a kind person.  There are bad actors on both sides who talk sh*t about other moms, because they are insecure about their own choices.

I do take issue with anyone who says one way is the only way to raise children successfully.  That is nonsense. If you are involved in your kids lives and they know you love them, if you listen to them, comfort them, advocate for them, it doesn't matter if you work or not.  You don't have to work your whole life nor do you have to stay home with your children for any specific period of time for them to grow up to be well-adjusted, successful adults.  There is no one-size-fits-all formula.  But when is there ever in life?  As many PPs have pointed out on many of the (idiotic) threads that pop up here, many women don't exclusively work or exclusively stay home.  Many women have different phases to their life dictated in many cases by forces beyond their control.

And, as another PP pointed out on one of these threads recently, why are we going crazy on each other over something that men give little to no thought to?  This whole argument is grounded in sexist BS.[/quote]

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