to really hate the term, fulltime mum, as if working others are only part time mothers?

[roboass]

why do some people insist on calling themseleves fulltime mums, as if us working mums are only part time mothers or something?

yes bumped into someone i know, we got talking about work, she said she was planning on staying home with baby, so i sadi oh so your going to be a sahm then, to whuch she replied rather snapily, well we don't stay home much do we sweety sweety to the baby but i will be a fulltime mum yes

maybe it was the way she barked at me, or is it offensive to call someone a stay at home mum

it doesn't matter how you put it we are just mums.
i agree with others here, the labelling is quite offputting and does make assumptions about mothers.
we're mums, that's it.

How about Numbah Wan Childcarer.

(Don;t know why I felt it needed a silly accent)

My SIL says she is a Homemaker which I quite like as it is a good description of what she does, has an active verb in it implying the action it takes to complete the job.

I don't like the term full time mum as it does suggest that the alternative is to be a aprt time mum, or a no time mum.

I prefer to think that evry mum is a full time mum, but that some at sat at home mums, some are work out the home mums and some are wrk at home mums.

Homemaker sounds like an interior designer to me

I am a pt WOHM who co-sleeps. I make up the hours I work pt by 8 hours at night with ds who wakes all night long. Does that qualify me to be a ft mum?

A friend of mine terms herself CEO of the xxxx corporation...as she has sorted all their moves around the globe, makes sure everything happens, makes decisions, hires and fires and bollocks people where necessary; does all the research and organising for dcs schools for each new posting, and generally takes responsibility for what goes on in her family.

She also says she has to be happy for the rest of the family to be happy.

I'm going to put that instead of teacher on the next form I have to fill in!!!

You know, I think we over-think these things.

Last Saturday I was at a party with my DH. He asks his cousin who explains she's not working ATM "So are you a full-time mum?" I cringe (in a "So, DH, am I not a full-time mum then?), his cousin cringes too and replies how she's doing another degree at the moment (on top of her primary degree and PhD). Yet DH is totally unaffected. As far as he's concerned he made polite conversation. His cousin and I are left to think things over and agonise over our decisions.