How much money do you make per year?

[Ble_PE]

Mrs. ble stays home with the kids and I really don't know how she does it. I'm burnt out after a couple of hours alone with them.

 

[snickerd3]

THe 3 months i was home for maternity leave drove me bat **** crazy...the parttime was PERFECT. THe balance of SAHM and working mom was just enough to easy the mental crazies and still be home with minisnick. But that was only for the first yr. I had to go back to work to keep my job and medical insurance.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

I have a lot of respect for parents who have the patience to stay home with the kids. I love my kids, but God help them if they had to be around me all day. It would be nonstop tears and screaming for all of us.

That's my wife in a nutshell.

 

[ptatohed]

I have a lot of respect for parents who have the patience to stay home with the kids. I love my kids, but God help them if they had to be around me all day. It would be nonstop tears and screaming for all of us.

Mrs. ble stays home with the kids and I really don't know how she does it. I'm burnt out after a couple of hours alone with them.

Good for you Ble. Yeah, I hear you guys. I couldn't do it either. When I have to watch them for 2-4 hours, it's a looooong 2-4 hours.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

I wonder what changed since I was a kid. Everyone's mom stayed home with their kids. It was just the way it was.

 

[snickerd3]

I wonder what changed since I was a kid. Everyone's mom stayed home with their kids. It was just the way it was.

they worked the whole getting girls into science and math angle early and often...I didn't spend all that money to go to college just to get a mrs degree

 

[willsee]

My wife and I are attempting to become owners of our companies. My wife is a social butterfly who likes attending business meetings, outings, etc.

I watch our son when she has late night events, Fridays/Saturdays (she's in school for her MBA). My mom worked so I never saw anything wrong with mothers going to work and others babysitting our son.

Some women don't want to be stay at home mom's and feel they have more to offer than just raising children/maintaining the home. Most of the people at my company have wives that are stay at home mom's though.

She would agree with Snick though...she would prefer working 3 days a week and having the other 4 home with our son.

 

[YMZ PE]

I wonder what changed since I was a kid. Everyone's mom stayed home with their kids. It was just the way it was.

I think stay-at-home moms were a novelty of middle-class Americana from the 1950s to the 1970s. I'm pretty sure that in working class families prior to the 50s, it was common for both parents to work. But it was also more common in the past for women to work from or near home - they were farmers, bakers, tailors, etc.
The women in my family have always worked. That's what was expected back in the old country.

 

[Ble_PE]

^For mrs. ble it's the opposite, in her old country the women didn't work and stayed home with the kids. But to make things easier they had maids and nannies. That's why she always gets pissed at her cousins that talk about how hard it is to raise their kids down there and how tired they are even though they don't cook, clean, or change the kids diapers. Yea, I'd be tired too.

 

[YMZ PE]

^For mrs. ble it's the opposite, in her old country the women didn't work and stayed home with the kids. But to make things easier they had maids and nannies. That's why she always gets pissed at her cousins that talk about how hard it is to raise their kids down there and how tired they are even though they don't cook, clean, or change the kids diapers. Yea, I'd be tired too.

The maids and nannies were working moms, weren't they?

 

[Ble_PE]

^For mrs. ble it's the opposite, in her old country the women didn't work and stayed home with the kids. But to make things easier they had maids and nannies. That's why she always gets pissed at her cousins that talk about how hard it is to raise their kids down there and how tired they are even though they don't cook, clean, or change the kids diapers. Yea, I'd be tired too.

The maids and nannies were working moms, weren't they?

Sometimes, but more often than not, if they got pregnant they quit and went home to raise the kid. At least that's my limited understanding of it.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

^For mrs. ble it's the opposite, in her old country the women didn't work and stayed home with the kids. But to make things easier they had maids and nannies. That's why she always gets pissed at her cousins that talk about how hard it is to raise their kids down there and how tired they are even though they don't cook, clean, or change the kids diapers. Yea, I'd be tired too.

The maids and nannies were working moms, weren't they?

Sometimes, but more often than not, if they got pregnant they quit and went home to raise the kid. At least that's my limited understanding of it.

Around here, the maids and nannies were generally grandmothers, or at least had grown children.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

The neighborhood I live in is about 50/50 when it comes to working/Stay-at-home moms. We each have our reasons for having it that way, and we all make it work.

My mom has always worked. She even went back to college when I was in 1st grade (shortly after my baby sister was born) to get her pharmacy degree. She ended up being the major bread-winner in the house and, while dad worked, he didn't work as much and would always make it to our school/athletic events.

 

[Ble_PE]

^For mrs. ble it's the opposite, in her old country the women didn't work and stayed home with the kids. But to make things easier they had maids and nannies. That's why she always gets pissed at her cousins that talk about how hard it is to raise their kids down there and how tired they are even though they don't cook, clean, or change the kids diapers. Yea, I'd be tired too.

The maids and nannies were working moms, weren't they?

Sometimes, but more often than not, if they got pregnant they quit and went home to raise the kid. At least that's my limited understanding of it.

Around here, the maids and nannies were generally grandmothers, or at least had grown children.

I'm sure they had those down there as well, they could have been more common. I do know of at least one young maid that they had that ended up getting pregnant and quitting.

 

[YMZ PE]

I thought they still use wet nurses in some parts of Central and South America? Now THAT'S working motherhood!

 

[Ble_PE]

^I didn't even know what wet nurses were until I looked it up after your comment.

 

[YMZ PE]

In many parts of the world it's still cheaper and safer to hire a human cow than to buy formula.

 

[YMZ PE]

Regardless, it would be nice to live in Peru and have the option of staying home without actually having to take care of the kids.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

^^^ They have places in Cali with the same benefits. I believe they are called Malibu and Beverly Hills...

 

[Ble_PE]

Regardless, it would be nice to live in Peru and have the option of staying home without actually having to take care of the kids.

Yea, the mrs. and I have discussed this before...