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[quote=Anonymous]Wow apparently it is a thing for very bitter and defensive working moms to scour their social circles for SAHPs who they think have it easy or don't spend time with their kids I guess? Whatever gets you through the day. I was a SAHP for a time and I spent the whole day with my kids. I sometimes even napped with them! And if I didn't I was often doing things for them anyway -- pureeing baby food or straightening up or researching a solution to an issue they were having. It was a full time job. I'd like to say it got easier when they went to part-time preschool but it didn't because by then they were so incredibly active and into so much stuff. Even part-time preschool is work -- 15 minute commute there and back means an hour of driving so your kid can spend 3.5 hours a preschool. Plus making lunch and doing snack days and staying for morning meeting once a week and chatting with the teachers about how they are doing. It's not like having a nanny come to your house and watch your kid for the morning -- it's more involved.

Anyway I work now that my kids are in school but I will always have respect for SAHPs especially of young kids. People act like it's easy or stupid and assume they don't work hard but they do. They certainly work harder than I do now (sitting at a computer all day and talking on the phone? Whatever after being a SAHP this is like a semi-vacation -- no one pees on me and no one says no to me 15x before lying down in protest and I get to finish whole thoughts and sentences without being interrupted).

But maybe I need to find a SAHP neighbor who I think is just sucking it up and ignoring her kids so that I feel good about myself? Is that how we do it?[/quote]

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