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!
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]
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.
Sox, link is here: [link]
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.)
Jessica, it was, for me, the stay at home mom bit. It's in the program but not on the article.
Wow. I am more emotionally scarred than I realized by my father's poor bathroom etiquette!
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.
No problem. As I am at "work" with nothing to do. Except write my AP syllabus (due June 1) for next year.
