You're a great Mom, Bella. Just the way you wrote that means you give everything your all.
You're a great Mom, Bella. Just the way you wrote that means you give everything your all.
There are a lot of young, stay at home mom's here in OC. Women with some sort of higher education, but most married right out of college and started having kids. They're super competitive. All the Pinterest/Mini-Martha Stewart types. I'm like an old, hippie fart to them
Oh, and I have an iPad and not many friends at all
I don't get why people have to compare everything. What works for some, doesn't work for others. I have a lot of respect for working parents. I've met some women that are SAHM's and they're so miserable with it that they constantly criticize women that are working mothers, because they want to be doing the same thing. I've also met women that are working mothers who bag on stay at home mom's because some of them wish they could do it. I wish people would be ok with doing what's best for their families and let others be.
I agree, Bella. I wish women would stop with tearing each other down. I was told by my SO's relative that I must not be a feminist because I stay at home with my daughter. I smiled and looked at her and said that I was a feminist. I made the decision to stay home and raise my child. Having the right and ability to do that is what makes me a feminist. I'm a woman and a mother. I believe in what I'm doing and I believed in what I did prior to having a child.
Clooney has been quite honest about not wanting to have kids or to get married again. When JA is in a new relationship, we read stories of how she wants to settle down and have babies. I think that's why she gets criticism.
^ That's true. Cameron Diaz, for example, has never IIRC said she wants kids and doesn't get the same will she wont she like Jennifer.
yeah, that was nice of her. our school is public and without all the volunteers, there is no way it would be as good as it is. a lot of the volunteers are SAH mom (some dads), but also grandparents. and sometimes the working moms help, too. i don't have as much time as a SAH, but i do what i can.
I think it also has to do with the idea that her ex-husband left her over the kid issue and went to a woman who would give him children. All very archaic, but I think that's why she gets such a spotlight turned on her for it.
As for Clooney, the reaction to him is equally stupid, if you ask me. People use the fact that he's not married with children as further "evidence" of his homosexuality, which is also ridiculous. Clooney may be gay, I don't know, but what's silly is the idea that if you're not married with children, there must be some secret reason, you can't just be single and childless.
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i think elizabeth badinter has written about it, and got shit on by both feminists and anti-feminists. i guess the truth hurts.
i blame this trend in helicopter parenting and the belief that if you're not with your snowflake 24/7, co-sleeping, stimulating them and paying attention to every gurgle, burp and outburst, making pie charts and excel spreadsheeets about how best to organise their homework and school work, volunteering at their school, spending hours at the local farmers' market and making them organic home-made meals, and shuttling them between their structured play-dates, mandarin for pre-schoolers lessons, kids yoga, soccer practice and classical violin, they will grow up to be inadequate, traumatised losers and you will be labelled a Bad Mother.
I'm open to everything. When you start to criticise the times you live in, your time is over. - Karl Lagerfeld
^^^^ My kids are so screwed.
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sputnik, this book mirrors what you're saying: Parenting Without Borders: Surprising Lessons Parents Around the World Can Teach Us: Christine Gross-Loh Ph.D: 9781583334553: Amazon.com: Books.
Parenting Without Borders: Surprising Lessons Parents Around the World Can Teach Us by Christine Gross-Loh Ph.D
"I ransacked his drawers when he left me by myself at his place for the first time. That's how we did it in the good old days. Tells me all I need to know about him. He pretends he didn't notice. That's how good relationships start." - Chilly Willy
Jesus, Sput. If your friends are waiting until preschool to start their kids' Mandarin, they are already light years behind.
They will probably end up at community college.
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^ there's definitely a component of that. Also, the joy of competition they once got in the workplace is now transferred to the competition of their children.
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