Comments on: Raising children: it’s not rocket science, y’all!

By: Strawberry

Strawberry — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:50:09 +0000

Yes yes yes yes yes! I can’t believe how much/often people don’t realise what’s involved in staying home with your kids and, more than than, what is lost. Hell, I didn’t realise until I was a couple of years in. On the one hand, I wouldn’t change it for the world. On the other, I’d change it in a heartbeat. …But I didn’t say that. Oh no I didn’t.
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By: Mary Clark

Mary Clark — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:21:30 +0000

Hope you got the obedient kids to give you a mani and pedi while they were sitting obediently at your feet.

I despair sometimes.

Thanks for taking her to task…hope she reads it and learns something…parents, non-parents, feminists, traditionalists; none of the labels matter in the end, in a way, because we are all women. We need to stick together.
Mary Clark´s last blog ..Standing In Line- Sometimes With Enemies

By: Maris

Maris — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:52:45 +0000

For one, work is confined to the perimeters of the office or work place only. Your office responsibility ends when you clock out and just resumes when you clock back in the next day. But with parenting, it’s a 24/7 job that lasts beyond our earthly existence. We can’t just quit on our kids no matter how terrible their behaviour would turn out to be. Putting up with the challenges of parenting and raising kids to become the best they could be is a lifetime responsibility that no parent ever has the choice to turn their backs on! Once you’re a mother, you’re a mother forever. Although I have always been a working woman and don’t have kids(let alone a husband) just yet, I am well aware of the difficulty that comes with being a parent, particularly mums (I’m very close to my mum, that’s why).
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By: nixdminx

nixdminx — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:28:43 +0000

I feel sick after reading the Daily Mail article; all the women are very young and they seem to have chosen couples who have been together since they were at school. It’s hardly representative but it is also a response to the Sunday Times magazine which ran a similar cover story a few weeks back. I’m reading the Womens’ Room at the moment so I do have a wry view of these families; it’s all transient. Would love to revisit them in 20 years. I don’t care what people do as long as they don’t patronise and criticise other people who have chosen different paths. When I read the article there was a small news item detailing Denise Van Outens coffee shop visit where she didn’t get her breasts out. How misogynist can the media get?

By: Monika

Monika — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:54:57 +0000

I have to say though the reason I find being a stay at home mum is because of the lack of targets and monitoring and motivation that you get in the workplace. Yes I read parenting articles and worry about whether I am doing it right but it isn’t the same as having yearly targets like I do at my part time job as an evening supervisor in a call centre. I find it far easier to feel motivated at work as I am working to meet specified service levels and make sure that my team hit their targets what at home thecwirk that needs to be done is relentless and mostly goes unnoticed (if you are doing it right) and therefore receives no thanks or acknowledgement of work done well.

I love my kids but the home environment is different to the work environment and the biggest challenge is the tedium and loneliness. The challenges faced aren’t going to be as stressful as some you would find at work – it depends upon what sort of work you do and what decisions you have to make.

Self motivation is the key to being a stay at home parent and is exactly what I lack in which explains most of my failings!