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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wonderful that you can stay at home. Wonderful that you have that choice. I'm sure you keep yourself busy. But...I do everything you do, and work full time (including volunteering at the school by rationing time off). I respect you and your choice but DO NOT complain to me about how busy you are. Thank you.[/quote]

[b]You don’t do everything I do. You don’t watch your young children all day. 
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It is all relative. My good friend just got remarried and has no kids. She just moved near her new husband’s work and isn’t working. She tells me how busy she is and I think it is laughable.

I can relate to being a working mom and SAHM as well as a part time working mom. I used to have a part time work from home job. It paid well and sounded like a dream job. It was actually the worst because I wanted to participate in all my kids’ activities so I would often do my work at night. I was dead tired. My office job where I got to work in a beautiful office near tons of retail and restaurants was a HUGE break from being home.[/quote]

My kids are school age, not babies or toddlers. It is exhausting to take care of babies and toddlers. I was a SAHM when they were that young. Now my kids are in school all day and I am still working when they get home. My request is that SAHMs with school age kids stop complaining they are so busy.[/quote]

Some of us are busy.  I think school aged are far harder than little ones.  I go multiple times a week to caretake for my MIL... now that is a miserable responsibility spending an hour trying to get food into her and doing hygiene as the nursing home sucks.  If I didn't have to do that, I wouldn't be busy but not all SAHM's are what they seem.  And, my parents are now needing help too..somehow they expect me to do it vs. paying for help when they can afford it.  Life sucks.[/quote]

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