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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pp here. I just wanted to add that I used to work full time and I felt like I did not have enough time with my kids. The morning rush to get ready was not qualify fine spent and after work we had 1-2 hours. This wasn’t enough time. For some people, that 1 hour of time may be enough.

I also didn’t like how I was not taking care of myself. I was too tired to work out.

DH does not feel the same. He doesn’t feel guilty for not being a chaperone for a field trip or missing a class party. [b]I wonder if the moms (or dads) know how sad their kids look when they are one of the few without a parent at their party or show. It is even sadder if the kid is so used to parent not coming that they don’t even feel bothered by it.[/b][/quote]

Oh come off it.  I am a social worker turned SAHM, and I find this ridiculous.  My kids, like most of the kids on DCUM, are already over privileged with a little too much oversight into their day to day lives.

If you want to help sad children, then put on an ice cream social at the DV shelter.  There are tons of sad kids there.  Don’t hop on message boards to troll working mothers.  [/quote]

In DC we noticed that the helicopter SAHM or PT working moms all hail in the public schools and MoCo private schools.
 The DC private and public schools have considerably more dual income working parents who have demanding jobs or considerable travel and make things work. [/quote]

NP It’s these SAHMs who come up with ridiculous school events requiring parental attendance, to justify their lazy useless lives. I’m lucky to have a short commute and flexible schedule to attend most of them, but most of them are not that important and it’s not right to make working parents with inflexible schedules feel bad. When I was in school in the 90s and 00s, my parents were invited to school maybe once or twice a year.[/quote]

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