SAH parenting- "job" or not?
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SAH parenting- "job" or not?
| Thu, 12-15-2005 - 9:29am |
SAH parenting- "job" or not?
- Yes- it's a job (I'm a SAHM/D)
- No- it's not a job (I'm a SAHM/D)
- Yes- it's a job (I'm a WOHM/D)
- No- it's not a job (I'm a WOHM/D)
- Obligatory 'Other'
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Gee, just a stab in the dark here, but....because my income provides 100% of what I live on?
Hmmm...Well then I am guessing that I will take that stab and say...IT IS BRINGING SOMETHING TO YOUR LIFE. What part of that statement didn't you get?
I never said that you personally have 40 more hours then I do. What I have said is that a SAHM has 40 hours that a WOHM does not have. It depends on how old/how many children there are in the famnily how much of that 40 hours is free time, but it is still time the WOHM does not have.
As I have posted for three years I worked for the school system so had summers off. I had a deal more free time in the summer then I did when I was working 40 hours per week.
"You can run to the grocery store when you get off work before you pick them up from their childcare...or any other errand you need to run."
Considering my children are 22, 20 and 16 I don't have to pick them up from childcare, (although my DD2 does work at a childcare center and last summer when her car was in the shop I did pick her up from the center) and I can run an errand just about anytime I want (outside of work hours).
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So during the hours that most WOHMs are working, you don't EVER do laundry or other household chores like cooking or cleaning? I know I do.
This afternoon while DS napped (2pm-4pm), I dusted the entire house and cleaned our guest bathroom. Yesterday I folded and put laundry away while DS napped, then cooked dinner while he played AFTER his nap. If I WOH, those things would still have to be done, they'd just have to be done after my work day.
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Heck, my DS has been "helping" me clean house since he could toddle around and hold the dust cloth. He loves to clean toilets, dust furniture, wipe counters, swiffer the hardwood floors, vacuum w/his vacuum while I vacuum w/mine.... Before that, I would strap him into the Baby Bjorn and vacuum away. It usually put him to sleep.
Granted, I sometimes have to touch up what he's done, but hey--if I have time to b*tch, I have time to do it myself, right?
Housework Bah humbug. I wasn't a good housekeeper when I was single with no encumbrances-and actually marriage has improved it (DH is a neatnic). Kids certainly added to it. (Although now that they are older they are helping too).
I think one can keep a clean house with children. Neat is the problem we have. My younger son was a dumper and spreader. I found that my metal health was better if I wasn't too uptight about the mess - we would pick it up after bedtime. Again, thankfully we are beyond that- for the most part.
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