Is is "hard" being a sahm?
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Is is "hard" being a sahm?
| Sat, 04-24-2004 - 1:25pm |
For many years now, I have heard the claim that being a sahm is the hardest job in the world. I never chimed in, because I didn't know first hand. I stayed home for 6 weeks when my twin daughters, Sophia and Stephanie (almost 4) were born. And that was hard, because I had 2 newborns. Now, almost 4 years later, I have resigned my job and am staying home again. I can god-honestly say that I don't know what's so hard about this. I personally feel like I am on easy street, but maybe that's because I haven't been at it that long. I feel like I am on vacation. It takes no longer than a couple hours a day to do the housework, and the rest of the time is free time for me and the girls. We have gone to the park, the zoo, chuck e cheeses, and I know not every day is going to be like this, but I feel like I am making up for lost time. My children seem happy and relaxed. The only hard thing about this is that they have gotten into some pretty raging fights with each other, but the fights have ended with quick intervention. I guess I am just wondering how long before this becomes "The hardest job in the world" and I start looking like a zombie, complaining that my husband doesn't help me, and so on? Or do I seriously have the choice not to turn into that? Also, do you think that at the rate I am going, I am at risk for getting bored staying home?

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It is nice to have a couple in school and a couple not. It is much more fun hanging out with two little guys who can talk and play independently than hanging out with four children with a wide variety of needs. I will only get one year with one child at home. It will be a very strange year for me, I think. Who knows what will happen to my multitasking abilities that year!
Hey, my friend with three under the age of 5, started homeschooling when the oldest was ready for kindergarten and had another baby.
Are you up for a fifth child?
&nbs
Need I remind you that home improvement projects and scrap books are never caught up?
PumpkinAngel
I am new to the board and I wasn't going to join it because, I think the SAHM and WOM debate is pointless...in the way I was looking at it. I would see this debate and the agruement would be just as hot as if who loves their childern more...or if you work outside the home the childern will not get what they need.
Well, to be honest I have always worked before I had childern but, when I had my son I quit because, I wasnt finding work and when I found work I could not find daycare I could afford. I was going to go back to school when my son Ben turned 18 months old and then I found out I was pregnant with my daughter.
I had a very differcult pregnancy because, my hubby is in the Navy and out to sea for 6 months and I was having some major depression. So I moved back with my family so I would not have my daughter alone. When Barbara (my daughter) was born she had a kind of a birth defect and when she was 2 weeks old she almost died from a Urinosptis (an a infection of the kidneys that spreed though her body). She had a duplicate kidney and ulter which kept urine back up and she also had a deformed bladder.
She did have part of her kidney removed when she was 11 month and we are still waiting on what is going on with the bladder. They test her bladder every 6 months to see if she will have reflux still if she does then she will do another surgery.
I wanna go back to work but, I wont till I know my baby is o.k. I would not rely on someone else taking care of her because, of her condition. I am her mom and we are not broke from me being home. So we can afford for me not to work...but...
I was kinda put into the SAHM thing....It is HARD...very HARD....
Truly,
notaperfectmom
Most of us
What do you mean by that? Who tells you what YOU think?
Mondo
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