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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Man, I swear the tween/teen years are more work than the baby/infant years from the perspective that you can't really just hire a nanny.  As a parent, that's when you actually have to step up and parent cause your kids know who you are.  So you are the one who has to carpool, spend the time with them, talk with them, it's time over money because it's totally relationship based v. when they don't really know you, it's transactional keeping them alive physically!  LOL

I have taken the last year off with a 13 and 15 year old, one of whom has a learning disability with both in private school.  It's definitely not like I've just had a ton of free time and boredom on my hands.  It's work to be a parent.  I don't get the American culture that doesn't realize how much responsibility comes with raising human beings.[/quote]
Because other people do it while working full-time and deal with all the challenges and stress. They want others to deal with the same stress I think. The specifics never matter in those discussions, judgments flow freely and attempts at lowering stress are frowned upon. Some just like to flex because they juggle it all easily so you should too, some are struggling so you should too, and some have an empirical view of gender obligations towards work life equality so you should too. Nevermind, any individuation, do more, be more all the time, don't stop, don't complain, keep on fitting my mold of approval.[/quote]

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