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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Definitely harder, esp. if they are involved in a lot of activities or travel teams.  Our lives are still chaotic, but not as bad as trying to work around 2 full-time schedules.  A part-time gig during school hours would probably work, but knowing I have a couple hours of downtime during the day allows me to get a break before the kids get home and start all of their activities.  Most night I'm not home until 8 or 9 pm, [b]so my "work" day is divided between mornings (with errands, grocery shopping, etc.) and after school til bedtime.  I usually get a break from about 1 pm - 3 pm (although I'll do laundry and other small things around the house usually, but it's still a break[/b]).[/quote]

I'm so sorry, but I have to point out the lunacy of this.  Most kids start elementary school by 9am.  At a minimum (if your kids take the bus, you have even more time), you are filling 9am-1pm with errands and groceries?  You have 4 hours a day or 20 hours per week of grocery runs and errands?

I sincerely have no beef with staying at home with kids at any age.  But you have to keep it real people.  You're living an awesome life filled with a lot of leisure time.  Just call a spade a spade.[/quote]

I had the exact same thought.[/quote]

Do either of you actually know anyone staying home with elementary and up kids? The women I know who do are busy all the time - no, not with lunches, manicures, or the gym! With housework, errands, volunteering at kids school, etc. Perhaps there are families who outsource everything so that SAHP is living easy, but for the families I know that is certainly not the case. [/quote]

Well, the women I know who SAH with older children do find time to go to the gym, shop, have nails done . . . but so what? Good for them. I wish I could do so.  Since when is this a competition for who is the biggest mommy martyr? Why do any of us have to give up a little me time or simple pleasures now and then (btw, I think gym time is for health so that doesn't count)? Once those kids come home, they go, go, go.  So, if they have a little downtime in their day, what's it to anyone? Again, I wish I could got PT or SAH but I can't.[/quote]

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