thinking its mad, how everyone assumes your going to return to work, when your dcs start school?

[milkgoddessmakesthefinestmilk]

im not planning to, i want to be the one that takes dd to school picks her up from school is there if shes sick or on holiday.

don't school children have about 3 months of hols a year?

I have no idea what views you are soliciting on the elderly and retired or how they can possibly be relevant to this thread

what are you expecting? an ardent piece of advocacy for euthanasia for retirees?

i mean what?

I don't think elderly and retired people are lazy or anything if that is what you are getting at. I mean obviously there will be some lazy people, some active people, some do-gooders, some obsessed with their gardens ... blah blah

I don't think using JK Rowling, who wrote most of the first book while she was working or on (effectively) on maternity leave, is any kind of exemplar of anything.

By the way PP, do you really think that only sahms have lovely homes?

thanks Findtheriver

Finding things to do is not the issue. Anyone can do that. The hours are there and people fill them.

So far on this thread I have not really said anything about SAHMs, I sort of got sidetracked into the attitude to your job thing and the money vs fulfulment thing.

But - not meaning to be offensive, of course, and not having lazyhen's wine on board - out of genuine interest, if your children are at school and you have a cleaner, what takes up the day? Yes I know you have to budget or pay the bills or shop for food or whatever but working people have to do that too. I am interested in what happens during the day.

Milky, in the nicest possible way, can I ask if you enjoy being controversial?

So far from you we've had one breast vs bottle debate and a couple of SAHM and WOHM ones.

I just wondered what motivates you to start these, you're not bored are you?

findtheriver, of course you admire Quattro, you seem to be a poor man's Quattro. How on earth would you know how successful she is in her home and/or working life. To be sycophantic about someone on the basis of what they post on MN is really rather sad, makes me laugh. Perhaps you could admire her posts but the rest is really rather silly.

'findtheriver, who the fuck is typical? You would have ridiculed her as much prior to her first publication for being a SAHM or would have known about her imminent fame and fortune?' - err, I'm sorry this makes no sense!!! Maybe you've been hitting the bottle again lol

Ooh Posie's post was deleted by Mumsnet - was a pity actually because I was going to use some of the more coherent sentences to extract what she did with her day.

THere was something about keeping a lovely home but not cleaning it because the cleaner did that. Then there was something about beaming families but surely you can't go around beaming all day now can you?

"my profession is pharmacist"

I thought your profession was SAHM now?

Your professions was pharmacist.

Quattro, I said I think some not only SAHMs have lovely homes.

'Yes JK Rowling is typical, that really was my point. '

'I didn't say JK Rowling was typical',

Two quotes from posieparker's posts, written within the space of .... oooh, about 5 minutes.
She really is totally barking!!

The post about making a career out of housewifey things - why was that deleted?

saymyname, how they heck is this thread controversial!?? the fact i think its mad, that everyone seems to assume you will return to work when your children go to school.
what on earth is controversial about that!

nothing that was said on this op was offensive to WOHM.
bloody hell som people are so touchy!

'A poor man's quattro' ROFL she gets more hilarious by the minute!! No, I'm not being sycophantic. It's simply clear from her posts that she is happy with her life and successful within the home and work. Which is really what you have a HUGE big problem with posieparker!!

The first was sarcastic in response to nfk saying that she was typical. You really should read a few posts.

Just a general thing really Milky, I've noticed you like to post about "touchy" subjects.

No need to get aerated though, I wasn't criticising, just wondered.

No the making a career out of housewifey things wasn't deleted - it was the nastier and more incoherent one much later in the day -

stop it. well im still employed at the moment, on mat leave so i am still a pharmacist.

But I said she wasn't typical. The posts make sense now. The first was sarcasm, the second your opinion.

I have a HUGE problem with people attacking SAHMs with the same crap all of the time, that's why I have a problem with both Quattro and you. Your incapacity to think that some women are very happy and satisfied looking after their children during their formative years. Your need to try and make others feel small and worthless for the choices they make in their lives.

A poor man's quattro sounds like a car.

Interesting that you define yourself by the job you hold MG

Oh dear now I'm losing track and soon I'll be posting shite myself.

LOL at a poor man's Quattro.

posie, would you care to find a post I have made on this thread where I am attacking SAHMs with 'crap'?????