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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Check out the thread in the tween/teen forum about if kids who are older respect their SAH parents. The hardcore SAH parents claim they do but that's not the majority opinion.[/quote]

My mom was a SAHM. I remember once asking her in high school why she was ALWAYS HOME. I was annoyed to come home and she was there always.

But I dated a guy whose best friend X had a mom who was never home. I went to X's house a few times and everyone just smoked pot there. We went to make out. Now that I'm older, I'd rather my kids have the mom who is always home baking cookies than the mom who is so absent that her home becomes a drug haven. Even at the time I felt sad for the guy.

I work, but get home at 3pm 3 days a week (they have activities after school on the other days). It's a good balance of being home and them still having activities. They begged to not have activities daily. I actually like how telework has ended now. I realize now how much extra I had been working and how easy it had been to check emails outside of work hours. Now I leave at 2:30 and leave my laptop at work. There's a lot more of a divide between work and home. When telework was allowed, I would have felt negligent leaving at 2:30 and people expected to reach me until 8pm or so. [/quote]

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