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Thought you might enjoy this link

tiffyr0setiffyr0se member
in Cincinnati Babies
My Sil posted this link on FB today. The question is, what the hell are SAHM moms doing all day.   https://tinyurl.com/bn7tnv
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  • pinkylupinkylu member

    Thanks, I did like it.  I don't have any friends who seem judgemental of my staying home (that I know of), but I like the way she sums it up:

    It's constant vigilance, constant touch, constant use of your voice, constant relegation of your needs to the second tier.It's constant scrutiny and second-guessing from family and friends, well-meaning and otherwise. It's resisting constant temptation to seek short-term relief at everyone's long-term expense.

    It's doing all this while concurrently teaching virtually everything -- language, manners, safety, resourcefulness, discipline, curiosity, creativity. Empathy. Everything. 

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  • MelissaMc22MelissaMc22

    framing it.Stick out tongue

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  • Miller238Miller238 member
    For me, the article forgot to include listening to a screaming baby, struggling for an hour to get your child to take a nap (which they never end up taking anyway), and the constant stratching and crying and skin care for constant inflammation and redness?  And don't forget the fighting of eating solids.  I am sure there is more!
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  • Lyons_in_2007Lyons_in_2007
    I'd like to throat punch anyone who questions what mothers (SAH or otherwise) do all day.  Smile
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  • pregliciouspreglicious

    Wow.. now I understand (somewhat) why my best friend from high school always said she so busy all the time and has no time to talk like we used to. I always wondered but this definitely gives me a glimpse of whats to come and what she's been through. Her not calling me at all definitely made me feel that our friendship was going downhill and whenever I called she wasn't available. Eventually I stopped calling her. But I still don't think motherhood crazy enough that you can't have friends or have no time for your friends at all!  Maybe I just don't understand because I don't know whats it like to be a mom yet but I would think and still think she could have atleast managed to call me once every 3 months. I doubt thats too much to ask! Flame away if I sound unreasonable. LOL!

     

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  • kel716kel716 member
    Thanks.  I needed that today.  (see above post).  And yes, I feel like I have more time when I'm working FT during the school year.  And for those of you who teach or have taught all day, you know that that job is also nonstop. 
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