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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If raising kids is not a full time job then what are you paying daycare workers and nanny’s to do?

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It’s a full time job when they’re home with you full time. When they’re in daycare or school for 6-8 hours then SAHP have a lot of time they’re not parenting. I don’t have hate for them, but it is a different job than being a sahp to kids who are home all day long.[/quote]

I’ve had this job for the last year.  Let me tell you that this the worst job unless you are somehow naturally gifted at it.  
My whole job was running chores and doing errands.  You can say that you do all of this stuff as a WOHM, but I think most people either divvy it up amongst their family members or let a lot of it slip.  
But as a SAHM of kids in school, how can you not have a clean house, laundry done, lawn mowed, flowers planted, homemade dinner every night, host holidays, decorate for every season, make sure that your kid has a cool hat for hat day, volunteer at the school when they need someone, run out with a change of clothes if your kid gets mud on themselves at recess, run to get last minute supplies for whatever stupid project, get all four kids and yourself to the doctor and the dentist as often as you are supposed to, and take them out to get a haircut at an age appropriate place every 4-6 weeks? 
 
And if DH needs errands run or ran out of his special cereal, why wouldn’t you get it?  He is the breadwinner.

It sucks. It was not the time of personal development that I thought it would be.  I was just everyone’s maid/personal assistant/b!$ch.  I’m a child psychiatrist by training and was in school until I was 31.  I did not like this role for myself.

I really liked being at home with my kids when they were little though.  Maybe that’s more of a “job,” but it’s a good job.  [/quote]

God this is offensive, to say that people naturally have to “let [/quote]

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