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Oh, FFS. I know dozens of families with two working parents who are not totally overwhelmed and don't have nannies. It's a combination of not living somewhere stupid that requires 3-4 hours of commuting for one parent, having jobs with regular hours and perhaps some amount of flexibility and/or telework, and not holding one's family hostage to an insane schedule of travel sports and multiple activities. Of course you need a nanny if you're going to be gone for 13 hours a day like the PP, but plenty of us manage to hold our families together just fine.

[b]I mean, eating leftovers in a clean kitchen after only having seen their kids for 30 minutes in the entire day is not a life goal for most parents.[/b]

There are literally hundreds of threads where people post their morning and evening routines, weekly meal plans and time saving strategies.[/quote]

The bolded is the type of comment that really gets me angry.  What you are essentially saying is that only parents who work the exact amount you do are parenting properly.  So parents with long commutes or long hours are bad parents and parents who SAH or work only part time are bad but only parents with the exact set-up you have are doing a good job.  And I’ll bet you can’t even see why that’s a problem.[/quote]

DP, but that's not at all the message.  It's so not the message that it's bizarre that's what you take away from the post.  There are so, so many ways that privileged people can get things done.  Privileged people who chose very specific lifestyles and then whine about them get no sympathy from me.  And there are so, so many ways to be a present parent.  Working, not working, working part time--there are myriad options to be there for your kids.  If you dig deeper into the ones who insist they need a FT nanny for school-aged children, it's a choice they made to maintain or afford a certain lifestyle, which has very little to do with things that actually matter for parenting.[/quote]

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