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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Truth -  Show me your day planner and I'll tell you what is most important to you.  The way you allocate your time reflects your priorities.

You spend the most time on the things that matter most to you.[/quote]

What does your husband's allocate?[/quote]

This.

I really hope Ms. "Show me your day planner and I'll tell you what is most important to you" answers this, because it'll be a pretty piece of insight into the SAHM-uber-alles mentality. [/quote]

First, I'm not a SAHM.  I went back to work part-time when my youngest started kindergarten and full time when he started high school.  I'm still home by 4pm every day at the very latest.

Second, no matter how much you may want it to be true, a father is never going to be the same as a mother.  My DH didn't carry our child in his body for nine months.  His body was not designed to provide nourishment to a baby.  There is nothing natural about pumping milk from your body and giving it to your baby from a plastic nipple.  We don't even take puppies away from their mothers until they are weaned.

I'm not anti working mom.  I work.  I do find it unbelievable that a "mother" would leave an infant or young child for 8+ hours a day.  I would have sold our home and everything in it and moved to an apartment in a lower cost of living area before I would have left an infant in daycare or with a nanny.

My DH has a flexible, well paying job.  I know we are fortunate.  He was able to spend a ton of time with our kids.  How primary job, however was to provide for his family financially.  His schedule would reflect that because he knew our children were being cared for by someone who loved them more than anything in the world, he could relax and do his job.  Once they were older and in school, that of course changed.

There are seasons to life.  Moms and babies belong together.  Most of the world has figured that out.

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LOL. I knew there was a "magic uterus" theory behind your world view.

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