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??

spooky mp! Look at the times of the posts too der der der der

mp you sound bitter about something

lol we have been here TOO long!

oh buktus I can't talk to you until you stop your crazy txt speak

wow, how likely was that

9:37:30 PM
9:37:30 PM

hehehehe

resistance in futile

what text speech

That IS weird and then both coming up with self-actualisation....
(whatever that is!)

it's all this

who gives a toss if u think i am in the 50's my dh doesnt want me working as i dont need to

makes me feel like I'm about 90

now I really need to know - how have I been construed as Wildly Defensive?

maybe this?

"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"

ha ha remember Ray Parlour getting in trouble with Glenn Hoddle who used that spiritual Eileen woman - she was giving the england team the benefit of zooming her spiritual hands around the heads and she said to Ray Parlour 'what can we do for you today then?' and he said ' a short back and sides please'

does anyone know what mp is on about

I wasn't going to post but OMG I am so sick of the mommy wars. Career girls, leave the SAHM mom's alone. THey have made thoughtful intelligent and loving choices that works for their families, whether we agree with them or not it not of our business. SAHM's career women are not negleting their families, they have made thoughtful, intelligent and loving choices that work for their families. YEs, we can find self aborbed neglectful career moms, yes we can find lazy, soap opera watching sahm moms, but most of us are slugging it out their trying to raise good kids, so cut it out with the insults. By the way I am a former career gal (lawyer) now a sahm and my brain is just fine thanks. I love what I am doing, we made the finanical sacrifices (1 car, no big vacations, close from second hand shops/hardly a sacrifice in mly opinion given how some people have to live). Someday, I will go back to work, maybe, see what life brings but right now I have a job, a full time job in my home. THere, I said it!

Here here!!!

self actualisation thread

oh OK thanks

buktus think she has you mixed up with someone else

how is that text speech and why does that comment make you feel about 90, it is true i dont care about what any of you think about my life and probably a lot of mums think the same about their own lives i can express an opinion as much as anyone else on here - just confused as to why that is called text sppech or as you put it txt speech

Oh no. Not a link to another highly readable and entertaining thread. I'm supposed to be in bed. Stop being so engaging MN.

no, buktus talks like all the young ppl I have the pleasure of mixing wiv

iota I'm exaggerating, you are not Wildly Defensive

second that christie1.

i am 25 how old are you then

I'd settle for annoying or smug, but not defensive

Perhaps some people are afraid of making financial cut backs. We had to when I took my career break but life is much more easier, DH can work what hours he likes ans goes away at a drop of hat without worrying about heling out with child care, no family nearby to help out.

hard to make cut backs money wise and find that you are not earning , especailly when you have been in full time employment for nearly 18 years . But it can be done.

It is up to the individual surely.I don't work in the trad sense of the word but it is no ones business why.I certainly don't drink tea an watch daytime tv you are being wildly presumptious and are generalising.

I find it really interesting to read everyones point of view on this topic & the thing is no-one is really wrong, just different opinions.

From my perspective I haven't really considered giving up work - only done it a year & don't think people would be too impressed if I gave up a year after graduating.

My LO seems to be proud of our work. She's been used to me going to school then uni, then work & her dad going to college & then work & then college again & then a different kind of work so neither of us have been full time SAHM parents.

I think people just have to do what feels right for them. I wouldn't like to feel that I have to work or to feel I was expected to stay at home though. So long as everyone involved is as happy as possible & the children are loved & looked after it doesn't really matter.

I also think that people shouldn't be made to feel guilty for their choice. Not saying that anyone on here does that but in general you appear to be bad if you are a working mum but also bad if you're a SAHM.