Stay at home mums with kids at school, why dont they get jobs??

[sleepinbeauty]

Just a bit hacked off with mums at school, they moan about having no life away from their kids/ not much money, yet they all seem to refuse to get jobs or careers!
why do some women just want to do sweet FA all day when their kids are at school? They seem content for their husbands to slog their guts out at work while they drink cups of tea and watch daytime tv! Dont get it! i think its called laziness??

Responding to the original post - bit harsh!!! In a world where we are striving for equality, and supposed to have this whole womanhood thing going on why do we turn on each other?? A womans choice to stay at home is as equally valid and as important as a womans choice to return to work.

Not everyone is career minded and need that side of things to be fulfilled. Why is it we think that to be taken serious as a woman in this day and age is to have to work whilst raising our kids? I do work and I have to say I admire women who become stay at home mums as its not something I think I could cope with doing besides which once they're at school I'd be bored rigid!! Sorry but spas and coffee just don't do it for me!!!

I have the luxury of flexible working arrangements so I have the best of both worlds. Everyone's family arrangements are personal to them and if their partners are happy with that arrangement who are we to question it? We shout about how people should respect women who choose to continue working whilst they have children and not consider them less of a mother for doing it but surely we should respect women who choose not to work in the same way?

I'd rather target all those people out there who don't have kids and choose not to work at the taxpayers expense!!! At least our stay at home mums are turning out the next generation of people to look after us when we're old and grey!!

"I don't think it IS very hard for intelligent women to find a suitable job, if you try to forward plan a little"

But how many school hours, term time only, completely flexible about time off for sick children jobs are there?

Why do childless people have to pay taxes to support the education of other people's kids. Bloody disgrace isn't it?

eh? How did we get on to that?

Getting lost here...

good post Countto10.

I certainly wasn't career minded, hated work towards the end but am loving retirement. I could get another job (I'm still young enough ) but at present I don't want to and I don't have to so up yer bum!

That should be L'dOL shouldn't it?

I am all for going to fins a suitable job when DS2 is full time at school after Christmas amd am regsitered already with a job agency that deals with my field.

Howver I do object to generalisation that SAHM of school age children are lazy.

I am having a bit of me time at the moment in between doing the school run 3 times a day , after being on a career break for 3 years and speeding most of that time on voluntary commitees and looking after at least one pre school child.

and we still dont know what job she does anyway - loving silly bint lol

oh sorry - you said intelligent women ......

'zactly

not Telegraph readers

How long did it take to kick off then?

I'm assuming it has...

I'm more worried about what job her dh does if he works from 4 am to 9 pm 6 x a week.

....and I should pay less taxes because I haven't had much illness in my life, whereas our neighbour has been in and out of hospital for the past five years - I really resent having paid out for that.

moondog is going to mortally offended

Good post Countto10. However, I wouldn't even want to 'target all those people out there who don't have kids and choose not to work at the taxpayers expense' .... You can't descriminate against a whole group like that. These people are women and mothers just like us and we'll never know what it's like to walk in their shoes or why their life journey has led them to be in the position they are in.

I don't think many of us here would want to change places with someone bringing up kids on benefits would they?

Or is it 'discriminate'?

Hunker will know.

Dis or des?

I feel a bit Linda Evangelista about this "I don't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day"

If I could get a decently paid job for a few hours a week, term-time only, I'd consider working whilst the kids were at school, but I can't be ar$ed to do it for a pittance

Christ, why's everyone so obsessed with paid work?

Why isn't anyone (they may be, haven't read thread) asking

wtf are we all expected to be worker drones in the machine and to perpetuate it by sending our children to school while they're barely out of nappies while we fester in a mire of unhappiness borne out of not having much choice about whether or not to engage with these societal expectations?

not that I expect anyone to answer that really and I haven't taken any drugs but sometimes I do just think, what's the fking point? Work is, often, pointless. Whereas bringing up children hardly ever is. Unless of course they're just going to end up in the same old cyle...

dis

Thanks.

WWW, my ill-timed post wasn't a response to yours

Which, I have to say, I agree with!

Dis.

Isn't it a bit unrealistic though to say 'I'd love to work. But I will only do 9.30 - 2.30 term time only jobs.'

perhaps that is why she is having a bad day - sexual frustration and all that lol - would they ever see each other