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[quote=Anonymous]i haven't read all 16 pages either, but i'm going to chime in with my 2 cents since don't have anything better to do.

my son is in daycare, and wish i could stay home and take  care of him. that said, he's learning in daycare -- he's learning things i would never think to teach him at this point and time in his life.  (12 months.)  the daycare teachers are teaching us stuff i don't know how to do.  but i'm annoyed someone else gets to take care of my baby.  but some days, i love not having to deal with the crying or the poo.  i love my job.  i might be a better mom b/c i work, but i just wish i had the choice. i wish we had better maternity leave. i wish we had subsidized daycare.  i wish i lived in sweden (and yes, i do think the US is the best country on earth), but i want their benefits.  and i also want the french attitude towards vacations and leave.  and i wish we made a ton more money so i didn't have to work.  and i wish my husband and i were a little less greedy and materialistic, but i want to raise my son in a house with a yard -- is that so bad?  but we live in a townhouse now.  and sometimes i think i'd be bored out of my mind being a sahm.  what would i talk about?  diapers?  but i think it would be fun and important to my son to be a homeroom mother and drive him to soccer practice and go to his events.  and i think i'd have a kick-ass body too.  maybe i'd play tennis and get good at it again.  my best friend is a sahm to 4 kids.  she's not boring, and she plays lots of tennis.  i'm jealous.  but she gossips a lot and i don't care for the conversations about party favors.  anyway, my situtation isn't changing any time soon.  my mom was a sahm and while we don't have the best relationship, i think it was good she stayed at home.  then she sent me to boarding school and now she gets drunk regularly and often calls me names.  joy.  i heard something on a tv show a couple of months ago that's really stuck with me.  "when you hang out with your children a lot when they're younger, they're going to want to hang out with you when you're older."  so true.  i rarely go home to visit my parents. okay, this was all just a stream of conciousness.[/quote]

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