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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends HOW they do it. My mother was a SAHM and our house was always dirty and she was always laying on the couch in her nightgown watching soaps and talk shows when I came home. It wasn't some super clean house with cookies fresh from the oven after school. She never made me breakfast. She never decorated the house for any holidays. She often "forgot" to take anything out to defrost for dinner and we scrambled to pull together a meal.

So someone like that, I don't feel good. A friend of mine is a SAHM and she gets dressed each morning when her kids do, makes them breakfast, makes their lunches with them, keeps up the house, is always arranging play dates, does holiday decor, makes homemade treats for her kids to pass out to their classes for their birthdays, invites people over spontaneously, etc. She's a great SAHM. [b]She treats it like a full time job[/b]. [/quote]

I'm married to one.  She's amazing.  She gets up at 4:20, at the gym by 5:15.  While she's gone I get up and make breakfast, get the kids ready for the day.  She returns from the gym, I go to work, she starts teaching the kids.  Takes them to ski club (where she volunteers), swim, etc.  Yeah, I know, we have 4 kids and homeschool so DCUM thinks we're wacko extremists.  But really, public school sucks, Catholic school was meh, with homeschooling there are now more options than there are at most schools.  All 4 kids have some live online classes, in-home piano lessons, math tutoring from a local engineering student, etc.

Obviously I'm the breadwinner but I try to keep it to 40 hours so I can help with meals, weeknight activities, etc.

Our perspective is that her time is so valuable that we can't afford for her to work elsewhere.  I know I'm being annoying by bragging on her, but it definitely works for us and I think more people would be happy doing this if they could get over the perceived social stigma.[/quote]

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