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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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. She treats it like a full time job. [/quote]

I do all that and I work, so am I a superhuman (yes, yes we are). [/quote]

So to you it is a contest?[/quote]

I think the point is that not every stay home mom is all that good. Not every working. Mom is all that bad.

You can’t look at these things in generalities.[/quote]

That is not what your "superhuman" comment suggests.[/quote]

I'm the pp who wrote the superhuman thing, not the pp who wrote about generalities. but that is a big part of the point--that you can't break working parents and saph's into binaries, with the former doing nothing with family and the latter doing it all. the other point is that all of those parental tasks and working (for pay or otherwise) is hard, and props to all of the parents out there just giving it their best. whatever their arrangement.  [/quote]

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