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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I don’t really see how it’s a lot less work once the kids are in school.[/b]  Yes.  It’s less work during the day while they are in school, but mornings and evenings are often busier and kids get up earlier and stay up later.  Toddlers sleep about 90 hours/week.  Elementary schoolers sleep about 60 hours/week and go to school 30 hours/week.  It looks to me like about the same amount of time doing childcare.

It’s not like these are couples where the dad is home by 5pm every day and has every weekend off.  For most SAHMs, the time that the kids are in school is their only time to exercise, read, relax, and socialize.  People make fun of SAHMs for going out to lunch or playing tennis during the school day, but that’s like making fun of single people for going to happy hours.  This is the time they have to socialize.

And no, neither childfree people nor SAHPs are working as hard as a single mom of three who has no time to socialize.  [/quote]

Correct, it's not less work. It gets more complicated because kids have more school-based activities that you have to help with, or after-school things and you're always driving around in the afternoons. I work now with elementary school kids, but we don't outsource much so the house is often a mess, and we have to do errands on the weekends. [/quote]

Right?  People always ask what SAHMs of school aged kids do during the day, and the answer is that it’s what SAHMs of toddlers do during nap time and after kids go to bed at 7:30pm.  Housework, nothing, call your sister, get dinner ready so it isn’t a mad rush later…[/quote]

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