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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Registered: 03-28-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 4:48pm
Well, some of us are not pigs that spill coffee, eggs and crumbs in the bed.

For me, the best thing about breakfast in bed (which we do for each other on Father's and Mother's Days only) is that I get to stay in bed longer, don't have to make the kids breakfast or clean up. The actual *eating* of the food in bed is irrelevant.

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Registered: 09-13-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 4:51pm
While you can't or won't understand my purpose for sah is irrelevant. That doesn't make my life less, just different!
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Registered: 08-19-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 4:51pm
You can't be clean with one shower a day and one bath for your kids? What are earth are you doing that gets you so dirty?

Do you (like M&T) wash your sheets/towels daily too?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 4:52pm
Wasn't it Thoreau who said, "The unexamined life is not worth living"?

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Registered: 09-13-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 4:53pm
It is still an insult. Can we get back to the debate without such degrading remarks & school play yard fodder?

So you have a problem with it. Bully for you. It is your own.

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Registered: 09-13-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 4:55pm
I know for myself. That morning shower just helps to get me going, makes me feel refreshed & energized, ready to start my day. The one in the evening, well, there is just nothing like a hot shower before I lounge around for the evening.

I can't believe people have issues over how many times someone takes a shower, changes their sheets, or washes their towels!

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 4:55pm
So you have no actual answer on how your life's purpose is higher or more worthwhile than a pet's?

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Registered: 09-13-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 4:58pm
I was thinking the same thing. I can't remember the last time I actually spilled anything (even crumbs) in the bed during breakfast or that late night snack treat. Dh neither.

It *is* so relaxing! I think I enjoy the late night snacks more than the breakfasts, but both are great.

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Registered: 05-28-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 5:00pm
Oh, sure. Sometimes I ask our nanny to put something in the oven, but MAT has a nanny AND a cook AND she is a SAHM.
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Registered: 09-13-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 5:01pm
My life is full of purpose and is worthwhile. I'm a wife. I'm a mother to 2 beautiful children. I'm a daughter to a wonderful set of parents and a daughter-in-law to a great set of inlaws. Not to mention being sister & sisterinlaw. I do for my kids. I do for my husband. I do for my family. I give to my child's school. I give to my church.

Maybe *you* need more in life than that. But my cup runneth over. And no, it doesn't compare to *any* animal.

Good grief, I don't even allow pets on the property, yuck. (but that is a personal thing)

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