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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one should ever judge the choices made by others. Some women have fulfilling jobs that they enjoy. Others think they want to be there 24/7 for their kids when they are young. Neither is wrong. Being a stay-at-home mom doesn’t mean you are playing tennis at the club all day—mostly it means spending time with your kids, driving them around to enrichment classes, taking them to the park, wiping poopy butts, etc. Maybe that’s your thing and maybe it isn’t. Maybe you feel like a nanny could do that just as well, and maybe you don’t. To spread broad generalizations about laziness vs greed is just wrong. [/quote]

Maybe when the kids are young but [b]a lot of stay home moms with means have full time help[/b] and don't spend that much time with their kids.  Their full time job is in fact social climbing.  And yes, feminism is having the choice to pursue ones life goals but there is some hypocrisy in liberal moms espousing equality in the work force when many have barely worked.  In essence, they should walk the line.  There is some condescension in the idea that a working mother is great for the working class but somewhat declasse and appalling for the liberal elite. [/quote]

You must live in a bubble ot think "a lot" of women are in that position. I don't know one.[/quote]

I only joined the private school world this year (previously kid was in public) but I've lived in upper NW since my kids were born (10 years) and it's the norm for SAHM to have close to full-time help if not 40+ hours a week.  Plus preschool hours.   It surprised me when I first had kids but almost everyone who stays at home in NW/Chevy Chase/close-in Bethesda has a sitter/nanny for close to full time hours or more.  No one is driving their own kids around to everything [/quote]

This is not at all true of our close-in McLean neighborhood. Families in both public and private, and we know very few SAHMs with nannies.  They are very involved in their children’s activities, from volunteering in the classroom to running scout troops to chauffeuring their kids around. [b]Is it really that different in Bethesda??[/b][/quote] our experience in Bethesda sounds like yours in McLean.  Very uncommon for a family with a stay at home parent to also have a nanny.  SAHP is doing a lot of school volunteer work, driving kids all over for activities (during week and on weekend too).[/quote]

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