Why does some people think women at home
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Why does some people think women at home
| Sat, 06-07-2003 - 1:02am |
should do it all? I hear this and think why should a woman at home do every thing? Shouldn't it be whatever works? Shouldn't it be whatever floats the boat of the married couple? Confused on this thinking.
If you are home do you do it all? How does your DH or SO feel?
WOH do you do it all or do you split it? Do you do more or less since you WOH?
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See, here is where it gets down to what you are *really* talking about. You dont think that a sahp is *equal* to a working parent. You think a working parent is *better* and that a sahp is somehow *less*.
I think that a sahp can *work* just as hard and contribute (although perhaps not monetarily) just as much to a household. I think that things can be different and still be equal.
Your issues are showing......
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Dj
"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
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"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
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"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
As to my dd's kindergarten teacher, you could have bowled me over with a feather when she told me that. Her comment was in response to a pareto chart she gave the parents at parent teacher conferences showing where your child performed compared to the rest of the class on reading readiness. My dd was one of 10 kids out of 45 who performed well. I questioned why so many didn't know their letters and she told me half of them had never been read to. Blows my mind. I have a SIL who considers it the schools job to teach her kids to read. When the teacher sent home a note expressing concern for the fact my nephew didn't know his ABC's, she sent back a note in reply stating "That's because you haven't taught them to him yet!!". They're out there. She's a great mom in other respects but considers all things education to be the job of the school.
The point is, however, that SAHM's aren't spending their days like our dcp does in any great numbers and most don't have the ratios she has. It's just not a fair comparison.
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