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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I only judge them when they have school aged kids (aka 5+ free hours per day 5 days a week) and they have plenty of time to cook/clean/rest, etc but they complain endlessly about how exhausted they are. Then I roll my eyes.

Sahp with young kids at home. I get it. It’s tiring.

Sahp with school aged kids who have a balanced productive life and don’t whine to working parents how hard their life is with the 25-30 free hours a week we don’t have…nope, you are annoying. [/quote]

I have 3 kids at 3 different schools and I guess I technically have 25 hours of childfree time. I volunteer at all three of my kids’ school. I run all the errands I used to run after work or on weekends during the week so I am freed up in the afternoons and weekends. Between working out, volunteering, errands, laundry, cooking and cleaning, those 25 hours turns into like 5-10 hours of free time. There are so many snow days, sick days, doctor appointments, dentist appointments, teacher work days, breaks and summers. You don’t have as much free time as you would think. [/quote]

Sure, but then you have more free time on the weekends with your family than those of us who work out of the home do—so we are doing the errands, laundry, cooking, cleaning, appointments etc. I’m not begrudging you your choices, I am happy for you and consider you a productive member of society (not that you need my validation, just saying) but please be mindful and don’t whine to a full time working parent how tired you are—you can opt out of the volunteering, you can take breaks in the middle of the day that we just can’t, you have more time to enjoy your kids on the weekends. I’m an exhausted teacher on my feet most of the day…. and I tutor over the summers so I don’t get summers off. But I did enjoy the heck out of those snow days we had! :) [/quote]

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