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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People keep referring to "staying at home WITH their teens" but most teens aren't home during the day. And most WOHMs are home during the evenings when the teens are home. [/quote]

Yea, I don't get it. Maybe they homeschool?

I'm not SAHM, but both DH and I WAH 80% of the time. We never see our teens. They leave the house at 9am and return after sports practice at 530 (loudoun county, school gets out just before 4pm).

By the time the kids walk through the door DH is dinner and I'm doing whaterver needs done around the house.

I'm honestly confused. I get wanting to not work and relax during the day. Maybe exercise, see friends, clean, shop, have a hobby, but not sure how SAH, unless you homeschool, is being there for you kids anymore than your spouse or anyone else.[/quote]

Well, as PP stated, SAHM are the "personal assistants" for their teens. Washes and presses clothes, tidies up the room, cleans all sports equipment, does research for the History paper, compiles a list of colleges to visit or apply to, figures out which extracurriculars will get them accepted to said colleges, schedules SAT tutoring appointments, schedules car maintenance appointments for their car, thinks deeply about all social and academic problems they are facing and what they should do. The SAHM's teens naturally get an "edge" from this concierge service and will likely go to Harvard or MIT.[/quote]

That is exactly the plan. Hopefully our kids will continue to be competitive and excel academically in these highly selective colleges. SAT tutoring? That is very basic level of support and acceleration.
Providing such concierge service has till now been very beneficial for our kids. But, it could have been that our kids were extremely bright anyways and would have excelled even without my attention? I see many parents spend money on tutors and prep and their kids are still doing average, so natural intelligence does play a part. Anyways, my intervention with my own kids have been fruitful and worthwhile till now regardless of mediocre curriculum and instruction.

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Are you two for real? What makes me sad is that with your clear sense of superiority and entitlement, you are raising another set of snobby, entitled kids and you think this is a good thing.  The world needs far fewer of your type.

And before you trot out that cliche DCUM response, nope, not jealous.  Stop falling back on that lame way of excusing your horrible attitudes.  Many of us who have good fortune focus on raising good people and responsible citizens.  Not to mention the ability to take care of themselves.  Are you going to write their college papers for them, too?  Oh no, that's right, you'll pay someone.[/quote]

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