Is the SAHM the new status symbol?

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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: 08-01-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 11:07pm
You'll be fine best to you and your pregnancy birth and delivery and your future buisness. I know max also from the southern sahm support board it's been forever since I have been over there though.


Edited 10/2/2003 11:14:55 PM ET by silverunity
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Thu, 10-02-2003 - 11:09pm
yes...very well said.
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Registered: 09-13-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 11:10pm
Yes. ITA and could write the exact words.
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Registered: 08-01-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 11:13pm
It is hard work but it is great money...Our waitress at the sports bar/tavarn pull in 150.00-200.oo on a average nite at the peak of season they can double that. Our high end resturant is well mostly waiters and the money they make is fanominal...Im talking HUGE~
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Registered: 03-28-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 11:20pm
Hey, do you know if she still stocks up on Pledge from SuperWalMart for 32 cents a can, after coupon?


Edited 10/2/2003 11:58:02 PM ET by suzymomm
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Thu, 10-02-2003 - 11:31pm
Have you waitressed before? I'm just wondering why you think it's such a lucrative job. It *can* be, but I think the majority of waitresses are not rolling in the $$ for the amount of *ss they're busting.
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Registered: 05-28-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 12:56am
This is kind of a general post here, not necessarily as a response to you, but anywho..

My dh said something that was interesting tonight. I had to tell him about this thread. After LOL, he said that he considers being a good person/good parent/good husband or wife all what he expects human beings to do, and that he has respect for those who go beyond the "bare minimum." Also, he said that if he were a SAHM who did nothing but lunch/talk to her friends/shop/hang out ordering the staff around and I (if I were the dh) had no problems with that, then he'd be *insulted* because I expect so little of him that I think that's the "best that he could be."


Edited 10/3/2003 12:58:14 AM ET by iaudrey00
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Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:22am
I don't see a problem either. S.V.
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Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:22am
nt
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Fri, 10-03-2003 - 4:32am
Don't be ridiculous. But it does take a some effort every week. My lady comes twice a week & while there are basics she and I know she will do every M and every F I change around other things I want done. Like today I've asked her to do the windows and stay an extra couple of hours to do that and I've told her she didn't have to change the sheets because I did it yesterday. I have to talk to her every week both times before or at least leave her a note for when she gets here if I'm not here. No. It doesn't take a huge amount of time but it isn't something I can push off in 10 min either. S.V.

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