Is the SAHM the new status symbol?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
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Tue, 09-23-2003 - 10:36pm
In the 70's and 80's women fought to get into the workforce (the whole Ms. magazine generation)...and then the tide turned in the late 1990's when more women started to stay home by choice. Now, it seems like being a SAHM is a status symbol....and superior to being a working mom.

Kat

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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-13-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 2:52pm
Yes, exhausting to have to keep explaining the same thing. But oh well, that is how the debate works. Did I hear you say you live in Florida? Me too!
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-13-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 2:55pm
Yes, I request our housekeeper to do daily sheet changes. Do they get dirty? Nah, but I like fresh crisp sheets every night. No, it isn't necessary.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-13-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 2:56pm
We take 2 showers minimum (one to start the day, one before bedtime). 3 if we have been to the beach, a park, any outdoor, sweaty or dirty activity/play.

Daily washing has to be done to keep up with the towels, clothes. Throwing in the sheets is really not all that earth shattering.

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-13-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 2:57pm
I usually shower (and yes, brush my teeth) then my dh brings our breakfast in on our trays. But as I said, usually. There are times I sleep in and he surprises me with breakfast.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-13-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 2:58pm
Well if your that hung up on not eating in bed that's fine. I happen to enjoy it! So does Dh.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-13-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 2:59pm
ITA with your thoughts on marriage/relationships in marriage.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-13-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 3:02pm
What she said.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-19-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 3:03pm
I didn't say it was "earth shattering", just wasteful. I think conservation of resources can be more important then showering 3x daily.
iVillage Member
Registered: 05-28-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 3:06pm
Good thing she doesn't live in CA with our water shortage!
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-04-1997
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 3:06pm
I walk my younger son to school every day and meet him at the door when he comes home. Older son gets driven to school every day by a parent and picked up by a parent except on his afterschool club day, when we sometimes carpool. DH however, is on his own as far as a hot lunch is concerned. He's an adult and knows how the stove works; he usually manages. And we all have clean underwear every single day, as I imagine do most of the posters on the board and their families. It's not *that* hard to have a paying job and still find time to do the laundry.

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