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??

... to sum it up because SAHMs are lazy but working mums are selfish! (amongst other things).

So we can't win - whatever we decide to do someone somewhere will think it's wrong!

Soooooo everyone just keep on doing what you want to do & what you think is best & then we can all agree to disagree on aspects of the topic!

now need to open another bottle of whine.

The first sentance isn't my opinion by the way - just what appears to be the worst generalisations about each type of mother.

I'm sure some working mums resent sahms - possibly the ones that feel that they have to work or are doing a not ideal job to fit in with childcare or whatever. & I'm sure that the opposite is true in some cases.

Rosyslave- " bottle of whine" brilliant, lol.

Alas too much whine. Must go to bed now. Goodnight ladies and gent.

nite plummymummy

to be honest i could not do what the sahm and also hold a job down at the same time i'd be zapped, so I take my hatsof to the for being able to juggle the kids/job/house/dp/bills and life. it cant be easy!

It's hard but in a different way - no harder than for the SAHM. Although I don't get a lunch break (many nurses tend to do straight 7.5 shifts), I have a change of scenery (albeit one that isn't always pretty). Ds is less than one minute away at the hospital nursery which is a great comfort if he falls ill or has an accident. As for juggling - well you have to. Probably time with dh suffers most. I think most women unconsciously put their kids first.

when ds starts school I'll have a bit of time to do some things that interest me but i can;t do with child in tow. maybe it'll be paid, maybe it won't, maybe I'll be SAHM maybe not.Either way I bet I'll have the odd whinge with peopel at teh school gate, whinging is fun, part of teh social grease that keeps those low level friendships- with people you only know becasue your kids are same age- going.

Yes I think you're spot on there.