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Do you find this irritating?
It irks me to no end when I hear a SAHM complain that they are tired because they didn't get a nap today. A what? I get up at freakin' 5am every morning and they need a nap. Seriously?
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Re: Do you find this irritating?
Not as much as it irks me to hear my coworkers talk about being tired after a late night out....but I work with a lot of young, just out of college kids.
Try getting up 4 times a night with your teething 1.5 year old, and have to come to work and be smiley all day, etc. But you just grin and bear it.
Eh, you don't know what else they have going on. Sure, I get irritated when anyone complains about being tired because I can always claim I am more tired than they are, but then I have to force myself to back out of my jealousy and remember everyone has other things going on and everyone is entitled to be tired. I don't always succeed, but at least I try.
Now, if she was rubbing it in that she always gets a nap and that today was just horrible because she didn't get her nap, well yeah, I'd be annoyed. But more at the rubbing it in part than the actual sleep part, if that makes sense.
LOL!
I'm not bothered by this at all, because for me, being a SAHM would be the absolute hardest job I could do. I would need a nap every day also!
We deserve naps too!
I get cranky, too, if I don't get a nap on the weekends while DS naps. I get tired from the entire week of working at work and at home. DS sleeps the night away thankfully, but now I have a DH that will bother me for sex in the middle of the night during the weekdays that I have to put up with. Annoying, yes. But all the poking me he does not let me sleep either. He so knows I strive to sleep to keep up with DS.
YES!! And what irks me the most is when it's done on FB. And this is why I hid said FB friend so I don't have to read about it.
It would depend on how tired I was. If I am tired enough, I can be irritated by cancer patients complaining there was nothing good on TV when they were getting chemo. I would certainly be irritated by a healthy person complaning about not getting a nap.
Amen.
meh - not really; I'd probably need a nap too if I was a SAHM! (and I'm up @ 5 every day too)
I think we'd all be better off if we took a nap every day.
This! I'm fresh back to work after a 9ish week ML...and I'm honestly more rested now than I was when I was on ML. I do believe that being a SAHM is tiring. I know that I'd need a nap too. Not only that, but now that I'm back at work df and I take turns getting up with lo. I'm sure not many SAHM's significant others do that.
Cytina, I couldn't have said it better myself! I work 4 days/week and on that day that I'm home, I'm SO physically and mentally exhausted that I'd kill for a nap.
Totally this.
I'd like a nap every day and I complain when I don't get one
In all honesty, I was home this summer (I'm a teacher), I was way more exhausted than I ever am working. Being "on" all the time with a toddler is exhausting.
So no, it doesn't irritate me.
not everyone enjoys being a WM, and I don't understand why other WMs have a problem with that
A Little Bird and a Monkey Butt
I am a SAHM. I occasionally take a nap. I seriously doubt that many cube farming moms could jump into my life and keep up with the physical demands. I go to bed at 10 and get up at 5, but that is not what makes me tired, it is physically porting around 2 kids to do all the things I WANT to do with them in a day, without a moment of help. If I sat on my a$$ eating bon bons all day, I am sure I would not be tired, but I don't. I had an entire 5 hour stretch today where I literally did not sit down for 5 hours and had DS on my back for 2 of those hours. I am not complaining, I love every minute of it, but everyone makes their choices, begrudging someone theirs does not reflect well on you. If your tired and can't nap, go to bed earlier.
yeah, I sit at my desk all day and eat bon bons. Are you serious? You were standing for 5 hours? What do you think people in retain do for 8 + hours a day?
OMG THIS! There is also such a thing as mental exhaustion...I could be sitting at my desk staring at a computer for 8 hours straight and be a million times more exhausted than if I were working in a store and standing for 8 hours!
Also not to be snarky, JOEBunny, but why would you think thats as a SAHM it would be a good idea to come onto this board and post the nonsense that just spewed forth from you? Try working as a "cube farmer" for 8+ hours and then coming home to your "second job" and working for 5 more hours and then tell me how tired you are.
How "busy" one feels often has more to do with their individual coping skills, motivations, and life satisfaction that whether they work or not.
Period.Done.Final Word.
What I don't understand is SAHM's of more than one child (of different ages) who CAN nap. I was unemployed for 8 months, so I was home with a 3-yr old and newborn for 6 months. The older one stopped napping when #2 was less than a month old; and #2 wouldn't nap for more than 45 minutes.
I can count on one finger how many naps I got as a SAHM.
My favorite complaint, is the SAHM who complains, on FB, that her part-time Nanny cancelled on her and now she won't get any time to herself or her nap. While I understand the need for a SAHM to have a break from the kids, most SAHMs don't have that luxury and rubbing it in other's faces is just plain rude.