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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My god, it's almost like raising children all-the-way to adulthood is *gasp* a whole job!!!

Yeah, y'all. It is. And we should have a culture where you don't have to be independently wealthy to afford to be at home and parent your kids. If you don't want to, you should have competent, qualified caregivers at an affordable price. It's hard enough to find that for preschoolers, let alone for teens.

But the US isn't ready for that conversation, and SAHPs are usually treated like ignorant, lazy freeloaders.[/quote]

I'm sorry, no raising teens is generally not a full time job. My teens leave at 7 am to get the bus. They take the activity bus and are home at 445.  They help prep dinner and we all always at 6. I work full time and it's effortless.  I love the mix of working and thinking and earning money and parenting.

When I was a teen I LOVED being home on my own two days a week after school. And no I didn't have sex or watch tv, but I loved the independence.

Sorry mommy doesn't need to hover over 16 year olds every day after school!   [/quote]

I couldn’t agree more with everything you said. My parents both worked when I was a teen. I got up to a little bit of no good, but no more than my friends with non-working moms.

I enjoy dinner with my kids (well, now kid since the other is in college) most days, and we are very close. But I don’t feel that I need more time with them than we have, and I am sure that they feel the same! The idea that it is a full-time, or even part-time job, is frankly beyond me.

I think many parents make this much more complicated than it is![/quote]

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