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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2 graduate degrees,  education & biology.. Worked 15 years, stayed home with my kids for the past 12 years. I love being SAHM and I am definitely not bored.  My husband (and children) appreciate my efforts. I am very creative and love to cook,  and do many things DH doesn't particularly like to do, like plan vacations. I spend my time raising (and enjoying) my children and buidling a strong relationship with DH. The only thing I don't like is some of the working moms., particularly those that have asked me to pick-up their kids and then insinuate that I am lazy or [b]stupid [/b]for being a SAHM.  [/quote]

Where do you live that the working moms don't have childcare already lined up and judge you like that?  Not our experience at all in Arlington.[/quote]

I mean, it's all over this website. [/quote]

You are not helping you case for intellectual prowess by offering 'I heard it on DCUM so it must be true' as your defense BTW. [/quote]

DP.  You sound extremely defensive.  Why is that?

And btw, I don't think PP is the same as the top PP.  At any rate, who are you to doubt the top PP's experience?  And "as for all over this website," that comment is true.  All one has to do is read some of the repulsive posts criticizing SAHMs and calling them any number of names.  So, please.  Don't pretend that isn't true.   :roll: [/quote]

I have never experienced judgment in real life. But the trope about WOHM asking for rides from SAHM PP is making up, bc where would their kids even be in the same place to BE picked up?? WOHM needs a ride everyday, going to go round robin thru her neighborhood SAHM?? That doesn’t happen. Totally made up. [/quote]

Ok, exactly who's the one making things up??  [b]Nowhere[/b] did PP say there are WOHMs going "round robin through her neighborhood SAHMs," looking for rides every day.  You just completely fabricated that, and for what - effect?  She stated there are "some working moms" who have asked PP to pick up their kids.  Which is absolutely believable - I've encountered this too.  And while I don't mind giving the occasional ride to anyone who needs it, there are indeed some WOHMs who assume that their kid is going to be brought home [b]every.single.time[/b]. from whatever event - sports, dance, scouts, etc.  There are two moms I can think of right off the bat who never, [i]ever[/i] participate in carpool to OR from our kids' practices.  While it's understandable that[b] they aren't able to take the kids there, they can certainly bring them home on a regular basis, just like all the other parents do[/b].

So hop off your silly soapbox and realize that your experience is not at all the same as everyone else's and PP makes a very valid point.  [/quote]

They are just lazy moms then, and being working moms have nothing to do with it.  Thank you for proving my point.  There are lazy SAHMs and WOHMs, so don't paint such a broad brush just from a few examples. [b] Just like I don't say that most SAHMs seem kind of dim because I've met some that really seem out of it[/b].
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[b]Likewise.  Simply being a WOHM doesn't mean one is more intelligent than a someone who chooses to SAH, not by a long shot[/b].  In fact, many SAHMs are more highly educated than WOHMs - the DC area is just one example where that is often the case.

At any rate, why are you on this thread to begin with?  The OP was asking SAHMs to relate their experiences.  Doesn't seem like you have anything to add to that conversation.[/quote]

That's what I was saying?  Why are you repeating back what I said?

I was on this thread b/c my DH is campaigning for me to stay home, and when I did it during maternity leave I *did* find it boring, so curious if it get better like wine (or maybe with MORE wine?).

The PP who basically portrayed WOHM as leeches was the first volley in the mommy wars in this thread, BTW. [/quote]

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