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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, if you had SAHM acquaintances, they would criticize your parenting, too.  Some mothers just do this.  I think it's a result of some combination of:

(1) needing to justify the way they did things to themselves by treating it as The Only Right Way to do things
(2) insecurity in their choices, which manifests as attacks on people who do things differently, because they see someone doing something differently as an implicit attack on them
(3) overinvestment in a particular style of parenting or a parenting choice as a part of their identity, and thus the desire to proselytize/attack others
(4) just generally being a judgy bitch

I don't think it's really about SAHM/WOHM.  [b]It's about the way we treat parenting in this country as a competitive sport, and put SO MUCH on parents, especially mothers, to provide "optimal" everything, like their kids are sports cars to be fine-tuned, and blaming them for anything that their kids do or don't do.  [/b][/quote]

Ugh this is so damn true![/quote]

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