Possibly because I am not a biological mom, the NPR article didn't ping me. It read just as facts, not judgemental. As for the stay at home part - it is work from home isn't it? Several work from home moms in my hood still hire care for their kids.
I hope you don't think that I just come over for the spells and everything. I mean, I really like just talking and hanging out with you and stuff.
Willow ,'First Date'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - May 08, 2008 10:17:57 am PDT #5641 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Kat - May 08, 2008 10:19:55 am PDT #5642 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
One mom was stay at home and one was work at home one day a week (otherwise work full time). It was the sister who was talking about how it would break her heart to put her kids in day care, ever, and how she is always with them that pinged me. I think it has to do with the assumption that working moms aren't fulfilling their responsibility (her word!) and that day care warps children that set me off.
At this point, I have more guilt about working full time. And then I remember: it pays the bills and provides insurance and means I get to retire one day!
hippocampus - May 08, 2008 10:20:16 am PDT #5643 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
I haven't heard the NPR report, but I've been driving my desk all day - is there a link up?
This piece on Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" just makes me want to scream and throw things. [link]
Jesse - May 08, 2008 10:21:16 am PDT #5644 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What I heard on NPR this morning just made me roll my eyes forever that there are still (apparently) all these women running around assuming that not having kids until they are 40 is no problem. If I ever do get pregnant, it will be in my late 30s, and there are good reasons for that, but I am under no misapprehension about the biological realities of things.
Kat - May 08, 2008 10:24:10 am PDT #5645 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Sox, link is here: [link]
Jessica - May 08, 2008 10:25:03 am PDT #5646 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Possibly because I am not a biological mom, the NPR article didn't ping me. It read just as facts, not judgemental.
Yeah, I'm wondering if the radio version was different, because nothing in that article strikes me as ping-y. (Or news, but that's a whole nother issue.)
Kat - May 08, 2008 10:26:00 am PDT #5647 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Jessica, it was, for me, the stay at home mom bit. It's in the program but not on the article.
shrift - May 08, 2008 10:26:14 am PDT #5648 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Wow. I am more emotionally scarred than I realized by my father's poor bathroom etiquette!
hippocampus - May 08, 2008 10:27:43 am PDT #5649 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
thx Kat!
megan walker - May 08, 2008 10:27:53 am PDT #5650 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
What I heard on NPR this morning just made me roll my eyes forever that there are still (apparently) all these women running around assuming that not having kids until they are 40 is no problem. If I ever do get pregnant, it will be in my late 30s, and there are good reasons for that, but I am under no misapprehension about the biological realities of things.
This was my thought exactly when I read that. I waited and screwed myself, but I wasn't unaware that that was a possibility.