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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (66302)12/12/1999 8:26:00 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
What does not being able to figure out 1/3 off have to do with a stay at home mom? I understand you are defensive about this- especially since you were raised by a working mother. I was raised by a series of housekeepers- and I can tell you they were shitty. They let me watch all the TV I wanted. They didn't care what I did as long as I didn't interact with them. There was one good one- when I was 4 I think- she had a little boy of her own. She was wonderful and I wanted her for my mother. She would bake cookies and sew with me- but she didn't stay long. I was devastated when she left. Some of the housecleaner/babysitters even smoked in the house even thought they weren't supposed to since I had asthma.

I remember being in Campfire girls and being the kid that never had a parent to drive on the campouts or go to the outings. I remember my parents never volunteering at school. My parents saved up so they could drag me around on trips to Europe and Hong Kong. You think I gave a flying fu&k about those trips? I don't even remember them. But I remember my childhood sans parents. I remember walking home by myself as a kindergartner. I remember coming home alone to an empty house in elementary school and waiting for the housecleaner to show up.

Everyone's life is different- but I've been the kid who didn't have a mom and now I see other kids who are like I was- and they aren't happy. I understand JBE's point- and I sympathize with women who want to be home but can't be- but if you don't even WANT to be, then why have kids? I just don't get that at all.
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