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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]

Agree.  Maybe the "uneducated" PP commenter spent a lot time in Fayetteville..

The DC area has a lot more high ranking military officers and than other other area so of course education and child rearing among military will look different than say, Ft. Bragg or Ft. Benning

But the nice part about the military is they become your family.  And IMO that are so much more helpful and pleasant than actual family--and you get to pick your company.  [/quote]

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