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She did the right thing. Who cares about a birthday party? And I say this as a stay at home mother who organizes great birthday parties. Her client is more important.

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The seven year old cares about the birth party, that seven year old child cares.  Shame on you.[/quote]
I love my kids, and was SAHM and a WOHM on and off. Birthday parties are over done and kid will not remember that mom was not there for one party. We didn't celebrate birthdays with any party in my country, heck maybe not even with a cake with the family. Above op is right, you are too dramatic about what the 7 year old cares. This is why we have entitled kids and young adults now. Every single whim catered to and every single thing a big deal. Did you ever pause to think that in fact a working mom is doing more good to her kids than a SAHM in many ways? She is teaching them to work, not to neglect their obligation, the article clearly says that she is balancing it, sometimes she works, sometimes she takes off for her kids. Society has gone nuts over being some "perfect" mom. She seems more present than many of the SAHM in most decades, heck in just about any decade than the last two. You remember 60s SAHM, kids played out and came inside for food. And all the kids born during WWII, when moms worked? Or kids in just about any country that has a better standard of living, and any Eastern European mom till 2 decades ago that worked as this was expected? He exact situation is how kids around the world are raised, switching between one and the other parent and grandparents helping a ton. Get off you judgy pedestal and get real. the kids are fine, honey![/quote]

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