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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I wanted to be in a classroom full of other people's kids I would have become a teacher.  Our school has plenty of type A SAHMs who hang out at the school all day, I'm happy to just volunteer to help out in ways that don't require me to interact with kids. [/quote]

I am partly like this too.   I also fundamentally disagree with the need for so many "extras" all in the name of "But the kids love it!"  Cut out 1/2 the extra crap and just teach them.  That is what I am paying her tuition for.  Then, at the end of the school day, send her home, and I'll do the rest.  I feel like type A SAHMs create so much extra and unnecessary "hubbub" over "MUSTS" like organizing the:  Santa's Secret Shoppe!  or Popcorn in your Jammies! or Visiting Santa with the Eighth Grade Secret Elves!  I am not making up these things.  These were actual events at my DD's school during the month of Dec.  I do not know WHAT work they got done, I really do not.[/quote]

PP back. So, in the end, no, I am not using my limited time to come in and work for Santa's SEcret Shoppe or Popcorn in Your Jammies.  Like other PPs have said, I am judiciously meting it out for times when the endless 2 week holiday vacations necessitate that I am home for childcare; for snow days like today when I would have to go into work and DD has off school; for her dr. appts; if she is sick; if I am sick (actually, scratch that:  I go in when I am sick b/c I don't have time to mete out of that) (which leads to what another PP said:  When I am not working, I am run down and exhausted and sometimes sick from busting my hump to work and pay taxes.[/quote]

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