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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is weird.  A bunch of military moms say "I just don't clean the house, feed them pancakes and McDonalds, and throw them in a pile with another family's kids while the moms drink" and everybody nods and claps.
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Then a non-military mom says "standards are lower and they don't worry about making everything perfect" and she gets attacked for being a snob.[/b]

Mmmkay.[/quote]

Well, you're not giving the full story.   That isn't all she said.
"Standards are lower. [b]They tend to not be educated[/b], so they’re not going to spend a lot of time on enriching games, reading, cooking nutritionally-balanced food, thinking about their development and what activities would best develop them. Which is fine, most kids don’t need that level of support. We educated UMC tend to over-do it."[/quote]
+1 was just coming to post this exact sentiment. [/quote]

There's a pretty big gap between military wives of enlisted men who have kids, and military wives of officers who have kids.  Your impression will likely depend on which group you've encountered.  [/quote]

I've encountered both.   I became friends with both.  It really isn't as broad a gap in my experience (as the wife of a Marine corps officer.)[/quote]

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