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[quote=Anonymous]Another data point: my mother was mostly a SAHM. She went to grad school when I was quite young and student taught and substitute taught. I know when I was in second grade she took over for another teacher with a brain tumor for a few months. I know in sixth grade she substitute taught my class when my teacher had the flu. I don't remember her working after that.

I LOVED when she worked. She thought all the kids were terribly behaved so in comparison thought my brother and I were angels when she'd come home from a day of teaching. Plus, she'd come home completely exhausted, and as long as we brought her a Coke with ice, she'd drink that laying on the couch and leave us alone. I HATED when she was home all the time. She was suffocating. Always wanted to talk and ask questions and got involved where we didn't need her input. She drove my brother and I apart so much - even he will admit he was favored by her - by meddling in our arguments rather than letting us work them out ourselves. Any time I was racing around to get ready for school as I'd go past her bedroom she'd call out to me, "Let me see your outfit! Turn around. Do you think it'd look better tucked in? Go tuck it in and show me. Are you going to brush your hair?" When I'd come home in the afternoon, I as an introvert needed to be alone and recover from school and all the people. She however, was so excited to finally have someone to talk with she'd badger me over and over without letting me decompress.

She wasn't JUST a SAHM. She was a SAHM who had no life and tried to live vicariously through her children. She was a SAHM who did nothing but sleep, eat and watch tv while we were at school. It was awful and I will never be that type of mother to my children. [/quote]

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