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This was sent to me by my son's former girlfriend. She and I are FB friends and I have never met her and probably never will. I know my son talked about me a lot and we miss each other very much as he is thousands of miles away. She said she feels she knows me. I was very touched.
This fell flat for me. I honestly don't feel that way about parenting and to me, the commercial was offensive and cheesy.
I feel like there are tons of jobs harder than being a mother but that's just me.
Harder, yes. Worse paid, torturous, mind numbing, and repetitive? Not too many come to mind. Or maybe you have Stepfordchildren.
You are talking about no job security, no retirement, no paycheck, no breaks, and hardly any respect. And everyone, including you, having something to say about it.
Harder, yes. Worse paid, torturous, mind numbing, and repetitive? Not too many come to mind. Or maybe you have Stepfordchildren.
You are talking about no job security, no retirement, no paycheck, no breaks, and hardly any respect. And everyone, including you, having something to say about it.
...I don't think of it as a "job". Motherhood means something entirely different to me. Sorry if you feel that way about it? That sounds miserable.
Harder, yes. Worse paid, torturous, mind numbing, and repetitive? Not too many come to mind. Or maybe you have Stepfordchildren.
You are talking about no job security, no retirement, no paycheck, no breaks, and hardly any respect. And everyone, including you, having something to say about it.
Were you expecting to be paid when you had children? Retirement? breaks? I never understand why people bring these things up. Being a parent isn't a job, its just a part of life.
No job security? If you want to look at it in terms of a job, job security is actually pretty great. At least for mine they've had that "job" for 30 something years. My grandparents have been for going on 60 years. Their "duties" might have changed, but they are still a parent.
Were you expecting to be paid when you had children? Retirement? breaks? I never understand why people bring these things up. Being a parent isn't a job, its just a part of life.
No job security? If you want to look at it in terms of a job, job security is actually pretty great. At least for mine they've had that "job" for 30 something years. My grandparents have been for going on 60 years. Their "duties" might have changed, but they are still a parent.
That is why women run in droves to paid employment. Job security is of course great-in theory, until hubby decides to fall in love with his secretary or decides to become ill or incapacitated in some way. This happens quite often, as you can imagine, as the trope of the poor widow and abandoned woman is quite popular historically
I agree, I have never gotten the constant need to call parenting a job.
It can't possibly be "the hardest job" by itself - if so many people do THIS job as well as another job.
I also don't get the "no breaks" part. This seems to assume several details that are obviously not true: 1) that the "mom" job only has responsibilities involving children 5 or under who will be under mom's exclusive care all day long.
2) that it is normal for children between 0-5 to be allowed to have complete control over the mom's schedule to the point where she can't even take a bathroom break. While this may be true for very young babies ...as the child grows...this reeks of the aforementioned "sanctimommism" more than it describes real occupational hardship.
Women in "mom" positions with school age children can definitely take many more breaks and have a whole lot more control over their day than persons in other types of jobs. After all, there is that thing called "public school" that keeps children between 8 am - 2:30 pm. Nice chunk of time to do as you please with.
And plenty of bathroom breaks.
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