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[quote=Anonymous]I don’t remember ever thinking I’d be a SAHM as a child but I always wanted to be a mom. As far as career goals, as a child I always wanted to be a teacher and I remember thinking about how if I was a teacher then I’d get to be with my kids more than if I had a different job so I imagined that would be a good job to have as a parent. But never specifically dreamed of being a SAHM.

I did become a teacher and then wound up becoming a SAHM when my oldest was born because as it turns out, teaching is very emotionally draining and all-consuming similar to parenting and I didn’t think I could give my all as a teacher and as a parent simultaneously. I think for me my childhood ambitions were actually very much predictive of my adulthood goals. But that’s not the case for most people. Most kids I have known aspired to be something much less practical or realistic (like a professional athlete or movie star, or my son currently wants to be a professional video game player 😂 etc) whereas I was setting my sights on more boring/less exciting but more attainable goals.[/quote]

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