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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is weird.  A bunch of military moms say "I just don't clean the house, feed them pancakes and McDonalds, and throw them in a pile with another family's kids while the moms drink" and everybody nods and claps.
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Then a non-military mom says "standards are lower and they don't worry about making everything perfect" and she gets attacked for being a snob.[/b]

Mmmkay.[/quote]

Well, you're not giving the full story.   That isn't all she said.
"Standards are lower. [b]They tend to not be educated[/b], so they’re not going to spend a lot of time on enriching games, reading, cooking nutritionally-balanced food, thinking about their development and what activities would best develop them. Which is fine, most kids don’t need that level of support. We educated UMC tend to over-do it."[/quote]
+1 was just coming to post this exact sentiment. [/quote]

There's a pretty big gap between military wives of enlisted men who have kids, and military wives of officers who have kids.  Your impression will likely depend on which group you've encountered.  [/quote]

Well as the child of a career enlisted soldier, I can tell you this impression is nothing like what I experienced.  And I lived it.  When we lived on base especially, we knew the other families and their kids very well, and I can assure you that (gasp!) even us lowly enlisted families had balanced meals and were read to and played games together and had caring families.

And echoing what others said, this life was significantly harder on both my mom and on us kids when we lived off base vs on.[/quote]

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