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I am also a working mom (actually, up until last month, I went to school full-time AND worked part-time) and it is HARD. Last semester, I was either working or going to school (or doing homework) from 8:30 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. almost every day.
I am now our primary breadwinner and about to be even more so as DH is hoping to begin his college career this fall and will probably work part-time, if that, while he is in school.
I don't argue that good stay-at-home moms have a hard job. I'm sure they do. But it seems all too often they discount working moms as worse moms. I have even had people tell me that I should not have had children unless I was able to be a stay at home mom! For me, that would mean no kids ever, because even if DH gets his college degree, he will never make enough money for me to be able to stay at home. Should we have not adopted Yuna just because of that? That doesn't make sense to me.
I think everyone needs to do what is right for them. For many people, that is being a working mom. I just wish a lot of SAHM would stop criticizing working moms... it really gets old.
It's hard enough being a working mom without feeling people are comparing you to stay at home moms and finding you lacking.
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