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You're delusional! Or are watching too much bad TV! It IS a full time job, without vacation time, without salary or raises, without socializing, without brakes...and with all sorts of sacrificing!
Trust me, you do NOT want to stay home! Work would be a vacation for me right now!
Honestly, it hardly ever felt like a full time job raising our son. He is a wonderful 24 year old boy. There were about 3 years out of 18 which were hard but that's it. Honestly. I imagine many people stay in a difficult job for longer than 3 years.
Not all kids are the same, some are harder, some not as hard. Same with parents, some parents have more issues or are just more difficult than others. Such is life.
Wow. I have to say, it hardly ever felt like a full time job raising our son. He is a wonderful 24 year old boy. There were about 3 years out of 18 which were hard but that's it. I imagine many people stay in a vastly more difficult job for longer than 3 years.
Just putting things in perspective. Not all kids are the same, some are harder, some not as hard. Same with parents, some have more issues or are just more difficult than others. Such is life.
You have 1, I have 3, and tho I love them all very much, I don't like being home one bit! I hate it. The only reason I'm home is because I can't find a job that pays for after school!
And I would never put "stay at home mom" on my resume! That's just dumb! It's like a shot in your own foot especially if the HR person glamorizes "staying home" & thinks all we do is watch TV!
You're delusional! Or are watching too much bad TV! It IS a full time job, without vacation time, without salary or raises, without socializing, without brakes...and with all sorts of sacrificing!
I'm baffled by this type of pervasive, I"m the sacrificial lamb and I deserve recognition" attitude/mindset that has become pervasive in our culture over the past decade
Being a parent is not akin to sainthood or marytrdom.
Choosing to have children is an active choice. I repeat, it's an active choice.
And while it is very hard and sacrificial, that's part of the nature of the responsibilities of being a parent. So stop elevating it to the throne of Christ. Geesh.
You have 1, I have 3, and tho I love them all very much, I don't like being home one bit! I hate it. The only reason I'm home is because I can't find a job that pays for after school!
Three kids? I totally agree. That's whole different ball of wax compared to just one
I'm baffled by this type of pervasive, I"m the sacrificial lamb and I deserve recognition" attitude/mindset that has become pervasive in our culture over the past decade
Being a parent is not akin to sainthood or marytrdom.
Choosing to have children is an active choice. I repeat, it's an active choice.
And while it is very hard and sacrificial, that's part of the nature of the responsibilities of being a parent. So stop elevating it to the throne of Christ. Geesh.
"Christ" where did "I" say that??? Do you know me? And what I've been dealing with? MY experience staying home was/is horrible! So I speak from MY experience not yours!
"Christ" where did "I" say that??? Do you know me? And what I've been dealing with? MY experience staying home was/is horrible! So I speak from MY experience not yours!
Cry me a river.
I was making a general reference.
I'm commenting on a general comment you made. I don't care about you or what you've been through. My initial reply was to something you wrote.
I'm commenting on a general comment you made. I don't care about you or what you've been through. My initial reply was to something you wrote.
Plain and simple.
Which is true. IF YOU and other HR people judge us by shows like "desperate housewives", or "the real housewives of NJ" etc., then your comment is very valid. The fact of the matter is that most likely the majority of SAHMs don't live like that, and there is nothing glamorous about doing laundry non stop...and so forth and no, we don't get vacation time off! Or are paid, or get raises for working hard to raise well mannered responsible adults. We get nothing. We don't get to just return to work; HRs assume we've dumbed down while at home...believe me....it's been years since I've been trying to get another degree, get a better job etc...and the "stay at home GAP" won't let me be! I am white BTW, so no hand outs here either.
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