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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This whole thread is so cringe worthy. Full of self-congratulatory “retired” SAHM’s. I am a SAHM but you all make us sounds insufferable. Please stop.[/quote]

Who is us? [/quote]

You can’t group SAHMs together. Every mom is her unique person and another family’s situation has nothing to do with her.

Some people work for money. Others for personal fulfillment.

Some moms are ok with putting kids in daycare all day. I hated sending my kids to daycare even though my kids went to a great one and had a lot of fun with their friends. I still have mom guilt from those days. [/quote]

This is what is cringe worthy. You still have “mom guilt” over sending your kids to a daycare they loved? Do you even hear yourself? How that sounds to other people. Good thing you married a high earner to save your from your “guilt.”[/quote]

Yes, I sent my kids sick to daycare all winter. I wish I stopped working before. I am entitled to my feelings. I couldn’t make it to one of the few events my daycare had and my kid would cry because I couldn’t come. [/quote]

Yeah, I'm a FT WOHM/WFH mom who loves her job.  I have no desire to become a SAHM.  I don't think this is that cringe worthy.  I was never comfortable with (and did not use) full-time group care for mine when they were infants and toddlers.    [/quote]

And some kids adjust great to "group care." My kid loved daycare from day 1. [/quote]

Cool.  Yes, I know that plenty of kids do.  But there are lots of parents out there -- both those that SAH and also those that WOH or WFH  -- who do not want to put their young kids, particularly infants and toddlers, in a daycare setting, especially for long hours.  (This is where flexible jobs come in, woohoo!)  And there are plenty who use daycare and feel guilty about it because their kids were sick a lot, or they did not adjust well, or even if they did adjust well, they were missing out on a lot of other things, or whatever.   The PP was making that SAHM sound like a wacko for voicing that sentiment when it's not really such an uncommonly held view.  It's not like she was one of these moms that came on here and said, "children need a SAHM to thrive" or "if you didn't want to parent, why did you have kids", or something.    [/quote]

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