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[quote=Anonymous]Agree completely. This is my primary pet peeve with certain SAHMs. I had to listen to one SAHM neighbor expound upon how difficult it is to be the only person responsible for scheduling the plumber, researching camps, buying kid clothes, making doctors appointments, etc., and that she was REALLY kept busy doing these things, so she hasn't gone back to work. (Her kids are both school age.) All I could think was that she is either a complete moron or just the world's most inefficient person. I do all those things too. Myself. Yet I am not so overwhelmed with camps and plumbers that I can't hold down a full time job.  Just WOW on the lack of awareness for that woman. Who does she think handles those tasks at my house? The Scheduling Fairy? A Shopping Elf? Nope - I do. [/quote]

Well, she does take care of her kids all day and you do not. No value judgment there, I have a nanny myself and work outside the home, but you seem to be overlooking the obvious in your desire to feel superior.[/quote]

Um, did you miss the part about her kids being school age? 1st and 4th grade, actually. They go to the same school as my kids. These kids live just a bit further from school than we do. I know my kids are out the door by 7:20 and back home about 3:10. If by "taking care of the kids all day" you mean taking care of them from 3:10 pm until her spouse returns home, yeah, that's a crushing workload. I have NO idea how she finds time to call the plumber. [/quote]

Maybe she spends her time volunteering at the school or elsewhere.[/quote]

She's not volunteering for 35 hrs/week. Unless she's engaged in some super secret volunteer position at the school, she doesn't volunteer there much at all. My kids and her kids had the same teachers. She was most certainly not devoting her hours to supporting the teachers by volunteering in the classroom. And seeing as how I was on all the same mailing lists sent by all the same volunteers, I can tell you that she wasn't the one organizing big events, either. But she does do a lot of yoga, which I assume is necessary stress relief given how HARD she works during her empty days to do all of the things I manage to do without the seven bonus hours of free time.

I do not begrudge non-working parents their free time. I'm just annoyed as hell by the tone deaf, oh-woe-is-me "I am SO BUSY running the household!!!" drama of some SAHMs, especially (!!!) moms of school aged children.  That's 7+ hours of time that is yours to use as you please. I am quite certain you can successfully manage the household with a whole lot less time than that. [/quote]

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