Is SAHM a Job?
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Is SAHM a Job?
| Wed, 08-24-2011 - 3:37pm |
I recently started reading stfuparentsblog and fell in love with it. The blogger pokes fun of parents from submitted facebook and twitter updates. She's a real riot to read, probably because my kids are older and I've been out of the 'mommy' stage for a while now and I'm beyond taking any of it personally. It could be found offensive a little, though I think she touches on some of the subjects discussed here often.
Recently, the blogger made a guest post at mommyish asking, Can Stay-At-Home-Moms Say That They Have Jobs?
So, what do you think? Is being a SAHM a 'job'?
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Amen
I used my mom as a hypothetical example.
No, no, no. You misread my post. The bad news I was referrring to--my post was tongue in cheek--was that no one could be fired from being a SAHM and some of us might want to be fired on certain days. I wasn't intending to upset you or anyone else!
wouldn't that mean I was quitting, or putting myself at part-time status? As you move on to greater opportunities, will you consider yourself a part-time mother?
there is no work status that changes a mother's relationship to her children IMO.
Or she could do what my mom did--get her child development certificate and work in a daycare.
The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett
Grandkids are more fun.
Chris
The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett
Ive
Yeah, but then she would have to take care of them, which is apparently too much of a drag. These are parents who prefer to sit and gawk at them and talk about how cute they are.
Way back in 2009, I wrote the below on my blog in response to a similar comment (to yours) from a woman who was waxing poetic about how she was going to miss the pooped on days now that they were nearing an end.
I get the part about missing the very things I railed about in the day, but the fact is, if I weren't missing those days, I'd be missing THESE. The ones where my kid's a grown up that I really like, about to marry a girl I really like. Where I'm actually contemplating a pointless and totally unnecessary change of domicile, so that I can drive even FARTHER to work, but live in the same neighborhood that boy and his girl are moving to. Because they have ASKED me to consider moving there.
I would never want to be missing THESE days. This is where life is the richest. Why on earth would I trade that for more poop??
I should mention, the boy and the girl have married and I'd moved, a totally pointless and unnecessary change of domicile to be closer to them.
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Kitty
"If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing."-- Kingsley Amis, British novelist, 1971 t .
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