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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"On their deathbed nobody wishes they spent more time at work and everybody wishes they spent more time with their family" - More people would do well to listen to this in the dmv[/quote]

Well wohm's, on your deathbed what are you going to regret? not "accomplishing professionally" or not spending enough time with your family?[/quote]

I know I won't regret being able to spend time with my spouse because he didn't have to take some big law job or other job with crazy hours in order to support me SAHM.  We have both been able to take flexible jobs with work at home several days per week.  I love that neither of us will ever have to work past 5:00 and can be around for our kids.

I was raised by a SAHM and my dad worked long hours and often traveled.  The only women I know who SAH in this area have husbands who work crazy hours (which is why I think so many SAHMs have warped views about how many hours all of us working parents spend away from our kids).  To me, a healthy balance of mom and dad working is preferable.  We still all get plenty of quality time together.  But thanks for being so concerned with how I will feel on my death bed.  I'm sure your concern came from a place of good intentions and not from a place of insecurity.[/quote]

Interesting.  I'm a SAHM and neither my husband nor the husbands of all the other SAHMs I know work "crazy hours."  It seems you are the one with the "warped view" of SAHMs and the hours their husbands work.  Could it be that there are all kinds of different family/work situations?   :roll:   Not the PP, btw.[/quote]

I only know a couple SAHMs here, so that's why I said it's based on the ones I know.  I wasn't trying to attack SAHMs and agree different situations work for different people.  But the miserable poster who thinks everyone with a job is going to regret working on their deathbed seems a little nutso.  If well all took the attitude that we should just spend time with family instead of working then society would not function because nobody would be teaching children, policing criminals, running our court system, picking up trash, etc.  But I have the feeling the PP posted her nasty comment because she thinks working moms will go to their deathbeds regretting working while men are somehow exempt from this regret.

I wanted to clarify that a lot of us who work are not corporate slaves spending 60+ hours a week working and commuting.  She must get that impression from her husband because I'm not sure where else she's getting the mentality that professional accomplishments equate with not spending enough time with family.[/quote]

Exactly.  This isn't a choice for the vast majority of the world.  Shocking as it may be to SAHMs, there are many, many of us - most women I know, actually - who have achieved a great deal professionally and spend tons of time with their kids.  It isn't either/or.[/quote]

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