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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One and the same.  [/quote]
I agree, but at the same time, I'm a SAHM of school-aged children. It's summer so I am totally feeling the SAHM vibe - because it is all day, every day - but during the school year, I'm a housewife. Full stop.

Once the kids are on that bus at 8:45, it's me until I get them at 4pm. I'm doing stuff for the HOUSE, or stuff for me (the WIFE). There really is no "mom" in the equation for about 7 hours, unless of course someone is sick or school is out.[/quote]

Agreed SAHM of school age kids is a housewife. [/quote]

I respectfully disagree. After my kids go off to school, I'm still doing a lot of things that benefit my kids directly, although they are not with me. I may be volunteering in their school, grocery shopping, getting rid of the outgrown clothes and toys in their closets, mowing the lawn, taking the car to the garage for an oil change, picking up dry cleaning, taking the grandparents to doctor appointments, fixing random broken things around the house or searching for lost items, picking up books that have been reserved at the library, planning weekend outings/play dates or family vacations, taking pets to the vet, gardening ...
Both stay at home mom and housewife are misnomers. I'm hardly ever home. We need new terminology. Maybe "family manager"?[/quote]

But aren't most women the family manager? I work full time and do everything on your list except volunteer. I do a lot during my lunch hour. [/quote]

Yeah I don't get this either.  PP, all working parents do everything on your list.  AND work.[/quote]

Working parents get it all done, too, but they do tend to outsource more of the domestic duties and I can't blame them.[/quote]

Not this stuff, though. At least, I haven't found the service that will do the stuff I did last weekend, which included dumping out all of the socks and underwear from my kids' dressers and tossing everything with holes in it and all the socks without mates; pulling all the Tupperware out and trying to match lids and bases and stack it all neatly back in the cabinet; signing the kids up for fall classes at Parks and Rec; ordering a birthday present for my 1-year-old niece; setting up the automatic payment for extended day; depositing two paper dental reimbursement checks; going to the library to get eclipse glasses; etc etc. You know, running a household, having a family. Everyone does this stuff--you can't outsource it. Sure, you can pay to get the groceries delivered and the floors mopped and the lawn mowed. If you're really rich you can get a housekeeper to do some of the stuff like sort the Tupperware, I guess. But most people just find the time to go to Jiffy Lube and drop off the dry cleaning and no one is going to find your kid's glasses or math book for you, and no one is going to plan your vacation. That's just life. [/quote]

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