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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s so horrible about being a successful working mom? [/quote]

There is no such thing as a successful working mom (or dad).  Kids are being raised by someone who is likely not minding their own kids because they have to watch another working mom's kids. Outsourcing parenting, especially when kids are young, doesn't make one a successful working mom or dad. [/quote]

The Boomer generation is proof that staying home to raise children doesn’t make you a successful parent, either. There is so much psychological damage in this generation from being raised by people that had to pop Valium and start cocktails promptly at 5 pm just to get through the tedium of their days. And that was when this society valued women as homemakers as much as they ever did or would. [/quote]

+1 My family is case in point. My mother stayed at home to raise us 5 kids. That doesn't mean she spent a lot of one-on-one time with us. Quite the opposite. She was too busy cooking, cleaning, taking care of the household stuff, and tending to the garden while my dad was too busy working overtime to be able to barely pay the mortgage. We were stuck in a big play pen while little and rarely got taken out to playgrounds. If we had "playdates" it was just neighbors coming over without parental supervision. We didn't do sports, travel sports, all the enriching activities that families all do nowadays. None of us had guidance regarding college and careers from our parents. And unfortunately none of us got therapy to deal with the after effects of intergenerational trauma so there are quite a few of us messed up today. Don't think it would have been any worse if we had been in a family daycare before entering kindergarten or had aftercare for the few years of elementary school. My own kids LOVED their aftercare, would ask to stay longer some days when I came to pick them up, and when they were smaller, their family day care provider was like a nonna to them and is still in their lives.

Anyone who studies the history of families knows that the model of a woman who stays at the house all day cooking and cleaning and overseeing the kids while her husband goes outside the home to work is a relatively new model. Women have always worked, usually alongside their husbands at whatever trade he was in. And grandparents - really the grandmothers - have always watched over small children.

People need to read more.[/quote]

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