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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a SAHM mom with two school aged children and our average hours are probably about 38-42. This includes time for laundry, straightening the kids rooms, date nights and lots of driving. I have never had an issue. If you choose someone who really wants the challenge of working with kids I find they do not resent the hours especially if you are are good host mom to them.[/quote]

Why does a SAHM need an au pair?  Wow...[/quote]
Hmmm. I don't know. Why do you need to be a snarky bitch? You do not know anything about my life or my family but I feel sorry for you that you are so judgmental and unhappy with you own life.[/quote]

Ok...help me understand why a SAHM with only two school aged children needs an au pair? Are you sick? Dying? Rich?[/quote]

Why should she help you understand this when you have already judged her? It's not one shred of your business. [/quote]

Read the post. She didn't judge her. She asked a logical question, seeing as how a SAHM doesn't work and is typically responsible for childcare. It reasonably begs the question, what are you doing if not caring for your kids? PP is just defensive. And I'll go ahead and make a judgement that her immediate defensiveness and unwillingness to answer the question likely means that her AP is purely a luxury that she feels people would judge her for. I certainly do. Even if I had all the money in the world, I would not foist my children onto someone else so that I could lay around being useless. [/quote]

So you have the same bias as the original critical poster. Why should PP have to justify anything. Just because someone has some help with their kids doesn't mean they are foisting anyone. That could allow someone to have alone time with each child. One of the children could have special needs. She could be doing valuable volunteer work oh and maybe she and her husband like to have a date night once a week or she has a book club in the evenings and her husband travels. Maybe it is a luxury for her to not feel stressed all the time trying to coordinate car pools because she can't be in two places at one time. No matter what the reason some women will think she is not justified in having the AP but its her money and life and her business isn't it?
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