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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always thought WOHM and WAHM were the same thing!

Thanks for clarifying. And I too prefer "working mom." I don't think it's a slap in the fact to moms who work from home or stay at home and don't work (for money--we all know that SAHMs do a lot of work!). It's just a more familiar term to people who don't camp out on message boards all day.[/quote]

That's the thing, all moms are working moms. The distinction lies in where the work occurs. [/quote]

Sorry, a working mom has to deal with customer's and adhere to someone else's demands and schedule (whether a boss or their clients).

[b]A SAHM has no constraints on her schedule AT ALL until her kids are in elementary school [/b](and then it's only the bus schedule which then leaves here childfree for hours to do whatever she feels like).  And if the schedule of the bus urks her, she can always home school. The only person she might report to is her husband bankrolling her kick-back lifestyle.

The WOHM and WAHM distinction reflects the inflexibility and stress that commuting brings; if you are WAHM and your elementary school age kid gets sick, you can probably continue to work and just set them up with an ipad and some books for the day.  Likewise with arranging work on the house, house keepers, etc.   They can zip over to DC school for those middle of the day activities just to a do a pop-in, unlike a WOHM who has to budget time for commuting and likely cannot easily return to work after the event.

And need to reiterate the morass and toll that commuting takes in this area, WOHM and WAHM is a very different experience.[/quote]

Again, this GREATLY depends on the age and personality of your child! How old are your children and how long were you at home with them? I do WOH, but my DD is under 1 year old, and I'm sorry, but my schedule has plenty of constraints on it when I'm home alone with her! Her sleeping and eating schedule/demands are as much as my employer sometimes. I completely AGREE with you that WOH and WAH vastly different, but I also think you paint WAH with a broad brush. Of course, it is more flexible because of the lack of commute, but if I were to WAH for my career, I would still be stuck on a pretty strict schedule.[/quote]

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