Top 3 Excuses I Can't Stand from WOHMs..

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Top 3 Excuses I Can't Stand from WOHMs..
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Fri, 06-29-2007 - 1:39pm


1. We NEED two incomes to survive... Yeah Right! I honestly believe that out of the people that say this 90% would be just fine if they would cut their lifestyle, move to a cheaper area and sacrifice. I am not buying it one bit when people say this.

2. I put my kid in Daycare for the socialization.. Good grief, how much socialization does a 10 month old need?? Besides there are better ways to much socialize young children.

3. I am a better mom if I work outside the home.. UGHH! How in the world do you think you are a better mom by handing your kid off to Grandma or someone else to raise while you go work?? Unless you are going to beat them or verbally abuse them, I always think at home with mom is where kids thrive the most..

THere are others I can't stand, but these are my top 3. Have at it..

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Fri, 07-13-2007 - 10:35am

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Are you saying that the working parent isn't as bonded to their children as a sahp would be?


PumpkinAngel

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Fri, 07-13-2007 - 10:36am

"i enjoy a nice glass of chardonay,too but it isn't pool side supervising my kids,that's for sure"

One glass of wine while supervising your kids is fine in my books. Katie didn't say she was getting corked for crying out loud LOL.

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Fri, 07-13-2007 - 10:42am
We do have community pool(just finished in the Spring) that is gorgeous and we go to in the winter but within 1/2 hour of us are countless lakes, rivers, falls, natural hot springs and glacier fed lakes(some of which actually warm up in the summer). I have to chuckle at all the posts about monitoring of cleanliness in the pools(while I completely agree and would not go to one that was sketchy) I am regularly checking the kids for leeches when we leave some of the lakes....not all some of them have them.

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Fri, 07-13-2007 - 10:51am

"You think going swimming late at night is safe?"

We had a pool growing up and my favourite swims were at night when my parents would turn on the floodlights and sit out on the deck while we swam...nights when it was too hot to sleep were the best.

Thennnnnnnn....there were the teen years where pool hopping was considered a sport. Since then pool security has gotten a lot better(thankfully now that I have teens)....but great fun was had(especially the night my cousin lost her bottoms in the neighbours pool LOL)

I think it is safe if the area is well lit and not a complicated shoreline or something(ideally a pool with floodlights). Even at our cabin we have floodlights to light the water but little kids aren't allowed in after dark as it is not an enclosed pool. The adults have been none to jump in for midnight skinny dips though!

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Fri, 07-13-2007 - 11:07am

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Exactly.

PumpkinAngel

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Fri, 07-13-2007 - 11:24am
Well, duh! They get all the SAHMS in the county together with little siphoning hoses, usually. Where I live, they have a lake draining festival every fall. Sometimes I take cookies for it.
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Fri, 07-13-2007 - 11:26am
I was talking about people being confused about winking and what it meant, whether it's in the picture or word form. It just seems so hard for some people...I just offered her a helpful hint about winking in any form because it just seems so hard for some people to understand.
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Fri, 07-13-2007 - 11:27am

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wow. talk about a broad generalization that has NO basis in fact whatsoever, LOL! Somehow, I was well able to bond very well with my infants AND go back to work at the end of 8 weeks. Imagine that!

CArole

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Registered: 09-06-2003
Fri, 07-13-2007 - 11:30am

"Working outside the home does not prevent a parent from bonding with his or her infant."

I did not say it DID, I just posed the question as to whether it was possible that it does?

"as I believe you took much less time off with your first child than with your second, are you much less bonded to your older child?"

Yes, I was home 11 months with my DD and with DS I was home 10 months; worked for just over a year and have been home with him from the age of 2.5(the last 9 months). My DH was SAHD from 10 months to 16 months at which point he entered daycare(was in DC for just over a year).

I would have to say that I have been involved in more milestones with my son than I was with my DD so in THAT way I feel "closer" to him that I think I did at the same point with my DD. I was not very involved in her potty training very much(for example) so I felt a little more unfamiliar with her creating a bit more of a distance perhaps. In both cases my time at home following their birth was the better part of the year(and the position I returned to with DS was a work from home so I was in the house while DH was SAHD for much of the time. It's still a lot more time than they typical 12 wks I hear is common so I was posing a question based on 3 months vs. the better part of a year(or typically a year).

"Do you suppose all women who choose to take 6 years off can simply walk back into a similar job at a similar level after all the time away?"

of course not; I was pointing out that it is always "flushing" a career down the toilet to leave it for a period of time and I don't think you EVER flush an education away whether you utilize it in your specific career or not.

"What is your education"

are you kidding me? I would not share that as it is much more fun to see how many people assume that I am young, uneducated and without means to obtain a career requiring significant education. This is not a job interview and suffice to say it extends well beyond the completion of high school. Our industry typically will not look at a resume with anything less than a University Degree at the very LEAST.

"and what was your profession?" Professional Sales in medical/dental where the salary range is not to far under $100 000.00 to $1 million (and beyond for the top professionals).

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Fri, 07-13-2007 - 11:33am
oh,ok. the 24/7 thing was just a joke. lol.

 

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