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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SAHM, but pretty much all. Cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping during the day, and homework in the afternoons then we are often at games or practices until 9:30 at night. [/quote]

BS. You are not spending SIX HOURS every day cooking cleaning and laundry while kids are in school.

You certainly have leisure time in there, maybe yoga class or gym time?[/quote]

Depends on what you’re cooking and if you’re cooking from scratch.  Same with cleaning—depends on what you’re cleaning and how thoroughly you’re doing it.  Maybe not 6 hours each day M-F, but yeah, some days are very busy.[/quote]

Sure if you are a Julia child wannabe, but we cook every meal from scratch and keep a tidy home and work full time.

Maybe PP has OCD and is like scrubbing floorboards with toothbrush all day, but most SAHM with school age kids have a LOT of autonomy and potential leisure time. [/quote]

So you’re mocking one of the most celebrated female chefs in history and putting down her art to knock a SAHM.  You sound resentful.[/quote]

I have very very minimal leisure time as a sahm to an elementary kid. Several hours a day to undo the mess, at least an hour or two of home management (handling renovations, repairs, condo trust, purchases for the home etc), and also meal planning and grocery, making appointments, planning and booking travel, planning and booking events and activities for the family, running errands like bank and drycleaners, replying to emails from everything school and home related. I'm honestly busier than when I was working full time from home with a kid in preK.

I know most working moms are doing the same tasks. I used to do them during work hours. The admin of running a household takes up so much more time than you realize[/quote]

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