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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just ignore.  If it were up to your toddler, you’d never leave the house. [/quote]

I also know it’s hard to hear those words but this is so temporary and they don’t mean anything they’re saying. BTW my kids are now in elementary school and when they see a woman who doesn’t work they say “what does she do all day?”[/quote]

My sons friends were surprised that he had to go to camp this summer because I work. I am home in time to pick him up from school so his friends thought I stayed at home like their Moms. It made us all chuckle.[/quote]

Curious - why did you all chuckle at the thought you might 'gasp' be a stay at home parent?[/quote]

Because none of the adults thought about how the kids perceived our roles. My group of friends is a mix of working and SAHM. A good number of the working parents have flexed their schedules so they can be home after school. I talk with this group while we wait for the kids. I doubt that my son thought about who of his friends parents stay at home and who work until his classmates started talking about summer plans. Then he knew that some of his friends stayed home with a parent and others went to camp. Some of his friends stay home with a parent who is a teacher.

We chuckled because we had not thought that each other kids probably assumed that the other kids parents worked, if their parent was a working parent, or stayed at home, if their parent stayed at home. It was more a revelation to us about how our kids were processing the world about them. No one had made mention that so and sos parent worked or stayed at home because it wasn't important. This is the time that DS told me he wished I still taught so he could spend the summer home with me like his friends did. [/quote]

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