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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Generally it doesn't bother me. What does bother me is when I hear SAHMs who have kids in preschool or other full-time educational settings and don't have unusual other commitments talk about how hard their lives are.

Yes, it's difficult taking care of young kids all day. No, it's not reasonable to draw an equivalency between working FT and having kids and staying at home while your kids are in school.

It's fine to say "hey, my life is easier than others and I'm grateful for that." [b]The suffering Olympics is tiresome.[/b] [/quote]

This.  I WOHM, and I don't care what other people do so long as they don't make comments that suggest that SAHMs are better parents, or that WOHMs are selfish or whatever.  But listening to SAHMs with kids in school talk about how busy they are and how hard their lives are...yeah, I roll my eyes.  Sure, you might have special circumstances, like caring for an elderly relative or something, but acting like your life is so hard is silly.  If I stayed at home, the logistics of my life would be so much easier (the finances, on the other hand, would not).  It doesn't bother me or offend me, I just think it's ridiculous.  IME, honest SAHMs admit that staying at home means their life is easier, and their family's life is easier, at least logistically.  [/quote]

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