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If women feel the need to complain about the demands of child rearing or the fact that they don't pull a salary for raising those kids, they shouldn't have gotten knocked up.
Easy peasy.
Is it a surprise to anyone that raising kids is more than a full time job? And one that's unpaid at that?
If this shocks you, you're probably too stupid to be having kids anyway.
Or have an abortion, since many modern women believe in it.
I wrote a personal message and got "you cannot rep again so soon". Ugh.
Short version: You see the big picture. None of us get out of life alive and well, you do your thing. Much respect. Peace.
Thank you for the kind words. I try to see that not everyone is ending the game as fortunate as I am. I got really lucky, my wife is absolutely brilliant, she is the rock we all lean on. My girls , no dad could ever have asked for better kids. I can count on 1 hand how many times either one of them disappointed me in any way or caused me to be angry. My bot was the challenge and he he challenged me daily for a few years. Now he is an amazing man, self reliant, a gifted machinist and a skilled welder.
Our compensation is our children, if you do your job right they will be your reward. That is the nature of life for humans. Im sorry but expecting to be paid to be a parent? To me that means that it was never about love of family or child. Our kids make us better people.
I work full time and am the primary care giver to 2 children. My spouse makes more than I do, has a worse commute, gets home later, has to finish up work at home, always "on the clock"...all that takes time and has a value. We designed it that my job is lower stress, flexible, and close to the schools so that we both wouldn't be running around crazy. I was a sahm for a few years too. Being a sahm does not compare in any way to working full time, dealing with actual work situations, commuting, etc and therefore I didn't expect any "help" on my end because being in casual clothes all day doing whatever I wanted with my kids was the greatest joy ever. The only downside to being a sahm is lack of adult interactions and loneliness but work, it is not. A lot of young mom's out there are quite insane and make being a mom hard work. They need to chill the heck out.
We agree on something. For most stay at home moms the social element is what they miss most. As an introvert, it's the thing I'd miss the least.
Being a stay at home mom is the easiest "job" in the world. Putting Jr. to sleep for nap time and watching Maury is not difficult. I guess loading the washing machine twice a week is a little time consuming, sorting clothes and what not.
deciding to be a parent is reward and/or consequence just like every other decision we make in life.
I was a working mother. My mother was a working mother. we both were married and raised productive citizens. I enjoyed my children and my mother says the same.
we chose to bring children into the world. it was our responsibility as parents of these children to raise them, make sacrifices for them, love them, care for them, teach them good values, etc.
parenting is not an easy job, but it was my most rewarding job. my husband and i are happy we made the choice to be a parents.
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