A question for other SAHM
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A question for other SAHM
| Wed, 11-08-2006 - 12:35pm |
Hi! I am new to this board. Been lurking for about a week now . Anyway, I am a SAHM. I love beening a SAHM. I think that my being home with my kids is one of the best things that I can do for them. However, I have noticed that some of my family and some my friends think that I am stupid for being a SAHM. My youngest child just turned 4yrs old on November the 4th. My plan is to go back to work when she starts kindergarten. I guess my question is, if any of you have had others try to make you feel stupid for choosing to not work and to be a SAHM? My SIL is always asking me, "have you found a job yet? It makes me so mad.

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I often wonder how people with any amount of children and one of them making less than $17.00 per hour can afford NOT to have a parent at home!!! The only reason I went back to work after Jack was born was because we needed the insurance for Sept and Oct. If I transferred with my job, it would have COST
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Thanks Kelly for the AWESOME siggies!
Hi I am also relatively new to the board.
Yes, I have family and friends that wonder why I dont have a job. My MIL is always in a round about way tryining to tell me that my dh shouldnt have to work so much to support us. She also tries to make me think if I got a job I would get a break from the kids. I have friends who tell me how bored they would be if they were at home all the time. It drives me nuts. I am never bored. I am busy with life of course!!
I pretty much ignore it. If someone mentions being bored I list a bunch of things I do so they shut up. I am not one for confrontation but maybe one day i will get mad enough and say something.
I am just about ready to tell my MIL that I dont want to "stick my kids in daycare because it is good for them". She tells me that constantly.
Hang in there!!
It just gets hard sometimes . My sister has made comments about how I want have any social security benefits later in life because I haven't worked. Those kind of comments make me so mad. Its hard to ignore sometimes but not bad enough for me to stop doing what I am doing for my family.Its funny too because the main ones that are talking are the ones that always call me when they need something.
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