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[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 unnecessarily on the academic front, I'd tell her to look in the mirror.[/quote]

I am a SAHM and my DD is a super achiever academically.  I left a well paying job to SAHM because my DH also has a high paying job.  And while we were outsourcing everything that we could to make it easier to be an involved parent - we were unable to carve out the amount of time we wanted to spend with our kids.  In the end, we decided that the mark of success of a person is not only what they can achieve in their own life but how their kids turn out.  So, I quit after I had saved enough to retire.  For years we have lived below our means and so I was able to save every cent that I earned.

I would prefer that my DD has the option to make enough money  to last a lifetime by working a few years.  Why?  Because if she ever wants to stay home to raise her family - she has the financial wherewithal to do that.  I started saving from when I was 19 years old. My kid is going to do the same. When she marries - she will already be a homeowner as I was.

Yes, I do push my DD to excel academically and  aim for male dominated STEM careers - because being a SAHM without stellar education and your own money is not really is  a choice and neither is being a WOHM in a dead end, ill paying job, a choice.  And my DD is well adjusted and grateful and makes me proud each and every day.

So, regardless of if you are a SAHM or a WOHM - you do what is best for your kids and you make sure that they are financially secure outside of a marriage.  A woman must have enough money that she can raise her kids, send them to college, pay for a retirement = without the help of a man.  That is a choice you can make for yourself.

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