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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think a woman who stays home and yet focuses hyper-vigilantly on her daughter's school placement/academics is a hypocrite.[/quote]

Totally agree. Why encourage your DD to excel academically if her highest goal should be simply to reproduce? Focus on the boys. They have to get jobs someday.[/quote]

You help all of your kids do their best so that they have choices.  Just because I stay at home and it was the right decision for me doesn't mean that I will choose that decision for my daughter.  My daughter will make her own decision about work/children when the time comes someday.[/quote]
And the goal of education is to become learned, to gain knowledge. I think it is dumb that people think the goal of education is just to get a job. People should gain knowledge to widen their fields of opportunity and choice, not just to make you feel like they are worthy. How stupid. I WOH and have been a SAHM, my education taught me that I can do whatever the hell I want.
Take a Seat Now![/quote]

You certainly don't sound educated, but whatever.

The goal of education is not only to gain knowledge, but to use that knowledge as a productive member of society.  If I were a high school aged daughter of a SAHM who pushed me academically, I'd tell her to look in the mirror.[/quote]

You sound lovely. Luckily, most SAHMs aren't raising hateful children. That cannot be said about you. [/quote]

Seriously. God forbid her husband or child gets sick one day and she has to take time off of work. Then she'd be a useless nothing, because apparently her only value is earning money. [/quote]

this makes no sense.[/quote]

Different poster. Sure it does. [/quote]

I posted about particular SAHMs, of daughters, who push their daughters overly hard to excel academically.
Not sure how that translates into a woman being a useless nothing because she doesn't work.  But way to project your own insecurities.[/quote]

Everyone should do their best to excel academically so that they have choices and don't limit themselves from a young age. If a particular woman decides to stay at home to take care of her home and children that's her choice, but at least she would have education and career preparation to fall back on if something happened or if she later decided she wanted to enter the workforce.

Plus, being a SAHP is not a one-time decision; it can be reevaluated and a parent who stayed home when the kids were young may very well choose to return to work when their kids are older. In order to have that option the parent would need a good education whether that's in a traditional "career field" or in the form of some sort of vocational training.

Just because someone chose to be a SAHM doesn't mean her daughter will automatically want to make the same choice, so of course a good mom will want the DD to do well academically so that she has the necessary background to attend either vocational training or a university, giving the young woman options in life so she can make her own decisions to the fullest extent possible. Options are a good thing. Limiting them early is not.

That's only sensible, and not in the least hypocritical.[/quote]

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