What am I ???????????????

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When you are a full time mum - bringing up kids - what is the modern way to describe yourself?

Whenever people ask me - I just can't find the right word and normally blurt out "housewife"!!!!

It sounds so ridiculous doesn't it?

Any good ones anybody?

martha you make me laugh ,I like the martha stweart gag.

can we have jasper as our offical exapmle person at all time please?

no she doenst stop being one, she doesnt DO the mum stuff full time!

What about "I look after my children"?

I take the point about Full Time Mum but I think I am a mum, actually, whatever I do. It's something I am as well as a list of childcare activities I may or may not perform at any given moment.

I refuse to call myself a housewife because the main focus of my day is not housework. I usually say that I'm at home looking after my little boy. I'd use the term "full time mum" too. I can understand why it might annoy some people (but they can only complain if they never describe themselves as "working mums" implying that we don't work). I think it's OK, because this is so, so full time - until ds started pre-school I got 1 hour per week when I dh took him out on his own and I wasn't directly responsible for him. If that isn't full time, I don't know what is.

Really of course, there isn't a job title, because it isn't a job - it's a life.

AN UNPAID CHILD MINDER?

I say what similar to what Freckle says, "I'm currently enjoying bring up the generation that will support and govern us in the next half century, and what do you do by that way?

Just to pick up Jane101's point - yes, actually I think looking after kids is a lot more demanding than a hell of a lot of other jobs (why do you think I don't do it?

a mum who works - sometimes at home, sometimes somewhere else.

I say ( to motherss of girls) I am bringing up your son in law!

did you see baftas last night?

davina asked the actress from fraser what she was doing now and she said
"being a mum". that was it - proud, no apologies. best way I think.

can't bear that actress (jane lees??) but yes, it was a good thing to say. at least she can afford the luxury of being able to choose.

What really brings it home to me that I am a mum and that I am at work all the time, even if I don't leave the front door, is when I'm ill. On Friday I went down with a nasty bout of tonsilitis...once upon a time that would have meant a phone call to work 'Sorry, I won't be in for a few days. Goodbye.' And then concentrate on getting better. But that just cannot happen any more. Instead I was thinking 'Thank goodness I got ill on a Friday, so dh will be able to hold the fort for a couple of days to give me a chance to be well enough to cope alone next week.'

Once upon a time there is no way I would have been back in the office yesterday, or even today - but of course I've been back at work since dh stepped out of the front door on Monday.

And just because my work is based in my home, don't anyone bloody dare to call me a 'housewife'!

TBH, my prefered job-title really is 'mum'.

A SAHM friend was asked by a patronising bloke what she did and she replied "Whatever I darn well like!"

Prettycandles, being ill and still having to look after your children is just part of being a parent, whether a working one or not. If I'm too ill to go to work then I'm too ill to drive them to nursery, so they're at home with me anyway.

I meant to emphasise the difference between being a mum and being a DINKY.