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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the point of all these threads, anyway? It doesn’t make any stay at home moms suddenly want to go back to work when all the posts call them “lazy” and ask what they do all day, and it doesn’t make working moms want to stay home when people say that they’re “missing their kids childhood” or whatever. I mean even the woman working 10 or 15 hours a week or whatever it was in a professional job was crapped on. What’s the point?[/quote]

It does make me feel a bit bad that people think I should be working but then I really think about it and if I’m going to work for the opinion of others  and not what I want to do that would be ludicrous. I want to sahm, my kids and husband agree. We are happy this way and my situation is unique (as is everyone’s) but I wouldn’t trade it. We’ve done things we could not have otherwise in exchange for the pittance I would earn and the stress it would involve. I love doing all the things other kids have nanny’s do. I’m not knocking people who use them as my dh and many parents don’t enjoy doing some of these tasks. I would think it’s crazy for a high earner who doesn’t enjoy the daily kid stuff to stay home as much as it would be crazy for a low earner married to a high earner to work full time when they love being present for all the home,sports and school stuff.[/quote]

Yes, you spend more time with your children, but most of us do work do not have nannies.  We cook and clean and run errands, etc, we just have less time to do it.  I like doing things for my family as well, working for pay (we are all working here) is not exclusive of "doing what nannies do"[/quote]

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