To think being sahm to 2 primary aged kids is the life of Reilly?

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Just that really. My youngest will start school soon and Im imagining having the perfect combo of me time and then kids' hubbub after school.
Just wondering if I'm missing something though as when working I imagined having way more time on my hands when at home than I actually seem to have?

I find eating a sociable activity so eat much less when on my own. I do like a good chow down in company though.

Yes, I'd say I was much fitter and eat a lot healthier now than I did when I was at work.

I sat on my arse at my desk in my office all day and went to the pub for lunch quite frequently.

Now, I walk for miles with the dog each day and our diet is much better as I have the time to fart about in the kitchen. DD1 is coeliac so I cook from scratch most days.

I proper lol-snorted at .

Buying towels a chore? that's someone desperate for justification.

I like to wear a cone on my head but instead of dunce it says SAHM just so everyone else can then check out my body weight to make a sweeping generalisation

Buying towels a chore? grin that's someone desperate for justification.

TwatFaceBitch You'd think so wouldn't you, but it was in the list of chores the SAHP wasn't doing that the WOHP expected done.

Wind chine- 'snacking all day' is what I see in the offices I've worked in- they are forever opening the biscuit tin/ having birthday cake/leaving chocolates lying about. Very unhealthy.

If I'm home all day I don't even have 3 full meals let alone snacks on top. We don't keep biscuits in our house.

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Really don't know what to say to that. suppose I would normally be the one to buy them. But part of a job description

All my DCs are preschoolers so I haven't experienced being a SAHP to primary school children yet. I may never experience it as I'm intending to go back to work but as I said at the start of the thread I would like to continue to be available for the DCs, to pick them up everyday at 2 myself and to have them based at home during the holidays. I don't think it would be at all stressful. I think that it would be the least stressful way to have 3 children. It comes at a huge financial cost though but then unless you need 2 wages to exist it is only money. I would use the time the children were in school to do all the jobs that otherwise have to wait until the evenings or weekends thus leaving the whole family with free evenings and weekends all the time.
I do very limited housework during the day now as I am looking after 3 little ones and am not a fan of leaving babies and toddlers to sit about bored so that the house can be scrubbed clean. But even so I manage to get bits done here and there throughout the day that already give us an easier life and great weekends. Only a couple of posters have claimed staying at home for school DCs is so busy it causes them stress. Most are saying it is indeed the life of riley. It isn't a competition about whether who or San is more stressful with school DC. Not in my mind anyway. WOH is more stressful when the DCs are at school though also far more lucrative. You aren't all working out of the goodness of your hearts. You are doing it for money. SAH parenting is not paid. If I do end up doing it I would bloody hope it would be less stressful. I would be sacrificing a good wage to do it. The aim would be to make life better for me and my family not to make it more stressful.

Sorry, this is much longer than I intended.

I like to wear a cone on my head but instead of dunce it says SAHM just so everyone else can then check out my body weight to make a sweeping generalisation

:-) I was going to say something similar but you beat me to it.

Excellent post jimmy

Agreed. Jimmy has nailed it.

It depends on the individual, for me SAH would be far more stressful than going out to work, especially with DD at school all day - and I'd be very likely to get very depressed. I love working in my field, I am the main wage earner and DH works PT and does most of the housework / shopping. Perfect Life of Riley for me.

for fucks sake are people seriously debating whether SAHM WOHM are fatter/slimmer

just look at yourselves !!!!!

Agree for every sahm fitness fanatic there is a wohm who is so stressed she never gets time to eat!

I think the only thing with jimmys view is that a lot of careers are very hard to jump back into after five years at home. It's certainly harder to negotiate flexible hours around school hours from a standing start.

I'm not sure people are arguing paris just chatting - everyone is different and so would react differently to different lifestyles. I think one way this reaction shows would be weight changes.