"a full time mum"

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said whatsername on Relocationthingy.

Surely you're still a full time mum if you work. You're stull a mum anyway. no?

I hate that term as well, hated it when I was working. Now I hate the term SAHM.

Yup.

I work part time and I am full time mum. Even when I am at work I am still a mum

YANBU.

no clearly if you work you are only PT mum and therefore, your children dont belong to you when your working

How do you suppose you describe a person that stays at home with their children and doesn't work?

Surely if you work you're a parent, not a full time parent?

so anyone who works and has kids works part time even when they work a 40 hour a week job?

I hate it too especially when people put it in the occupation part of a form (my maternity notes for example). Although I cant think of a better term SAHM makes me sound as though I never go out and sit in the house peering through the curtains all day! I also wouldn't like to have unemployed all over things even if thats technically what I am!

I wonder what that makes most working fathers then?

"Hi, I'm Phil, I'm a car mechanic and part-time Dad"

'eh?

It's a term to distinguish unemployed people from people that have chosen to look after their children and give up work.

it is a phrase
I am a single parent and my kids are with their dad 2 nights a week, am I any less a parent because of that, no of course not, in the same way that I am no less a parent when I am at work.
I don't even think "full time mum" said about someone else has any reflection nor indication about ME.

Sorry but I use this all the time - much better than the dreary SAHM or housewife. Come up with a better term for me and I'll drop it!

It doesn't really matter, does it?
You do what you do and thats that.
What do you call yourself?

But people who work don't need to say 'full time parent' because when people ask what they do they can say 'I am a nurse/doctor/mechanic'.

I'm a full time parent and I work full time.
Or, I'm a working parent.
Whatever you call it, someone is going to get sniffy. To say you are a full time parent when you are not in paid employment might well make others feel they are parenting less well because they are doing both.

Unemployed is tehnically correct though. Certainly more accurate than full-time Mum, anyway.

People have to justify their lack of employment with 'full time parent'...people who work don't.

'But people who work don't need to say 'full time parent' because when people ask what they do they can say 'I am a nurse/doctor/mechanic'.

Why not just say 'I'm a parent?'

Exactly Posie.
When someone calls themselves a full time mum, you'd have to assume they are making some kind of ethical statement to take offence, surely?
I just assume it means they are not in paid employment due to being at home with their kids.

Sproggle....

Tried that one Goblinchild - it was followed up by "yes, but what do you DO?"

I prefer "Lady of Leisure".

This thread is going to go mental, we need a popcorn icon.

Because the question is usually 'what do you do?' meaning what job?

Goblinchild - if someone asks you "so what do you do then?" You would say "I'm a parent"....even though you are, for example, a dentist...?