It seems that the idea that being a stay-at-home parent is a full-time job is becoming a thing of the past. A survey commissioned by Welch’s found that mothers work an average of 14 hours a day or a 98-hour workweek — the equivalent of 2.5 full-time jobs caring for their children. The survey looked at 2,000 US moms with children aged 5 to 12 and revealed that, on average, they started their duties at 6:23 a.m. and ended the day at 8:31 p.m., with only 1.7 hours of free time in between.
lmao fucking what
Wake up.
Send kids to school.
Literally nothing for the next 8 hours.
Also, here's the neat thing about kids - they grow up and they eventually take care of themselves. The older a kid gets, the less work they are. The first six years of a kids' life you basically have to do everything for them because they're stupid fuckups (ever seen a five year old insist he can pour his own juice?), but by the time they're seven they can manage most tasks, they can help with the chores, etc.
Even then those 6 years aren't really all THAT much work. Year one is basically just cleaning up their shit. Year two and three is basically making sure they don't kill themselves. Four through six is just performing basic tasks and slinging food at them.
SAHMs want to pretend that they slave away all day. LMAO bitch what, your youngest kid is like 12 years old.
Also, kids nowadays are retarded zombies being raised by tablets. They probably don't do shit like color on walls anymore because they've never seen a marker in real life.
I could accept it, if keeping a home meant actually manually doing everything. But the typical "I organise my organiser to be organised" busywork bullshit a bunch of those stay at home mega mommies do is absolute useless bullshit.
Does she garden? Does she keep her own animals? Everything home cooked, canned, preserved? Does she sew clothes, knit, crochet, make everything she can herself?
No, taking your kid to piano classes and reorganising your fridge the 5th time this month is not 2,5 real jobs.
Women in 1922: Manually beating rugs, hand-washing linens and hanging to dry, growing, harvesting, and canning because you're in the middle of the Great Depression, sewing new clothes out of sackcloth.
Women in the 2022: "'Alexa, ask Roomba to vacuum. Also, send in my curbside delivery grocery order.' God I'm so oppressed by this patriarchal hell."
Even if she does all those things, it's not a 14 hour day, at least if the kids are older. Turns out kids can learn to do every houshold chore if you put in the time to teach them.
I'm a stay at home Dad; I don't "work" 14 hours a day, I'm on call 14 hours a day. During that time I can do pretty much anything I want, including taking a nap, so long as the kids are good.
I also work, so I get a taste of both, and some days I'd rather spend 10 hours roofing than deal with the kids, but to say that they're "working" 14 hours a day is laughable.
Unless you're regularly buying "priced to sell" meats and live within a 5 minute walk to a store, you should be doing (at most) one grocery run a week.
Cook food
Learn to meal/food prep. Start of every month, I have everything I need ready so that I can pull it from the freezer, stick it in an over/crockpot, and let it cook.
Kids come back home, help them with homework and mental issues if neccesary.
Right, because "just Google it" is so much work when you raised your kids to stare into a nightmare rectangle. You know, the same horror brick that caused those mental issues in the first place.
God, woman today aren't good for fucking anything, huh?
You mean that shit literally every single person has to do as a basic necessity of life? Seriously, are you mopping the floor and washing the walls every single day?
Stop misconstruing my point. If you had small kids you'd know what it's like to pick up toys, drawings and YES, even removing pencil stains from walls. Can take easily 1 or 2 hours a day.
Unless you're regularly buying "priced to sell" meats and live within a 5 minute walk to a store, you should be doing (at most) one grocery run a week.
Picking up a fresh bread baked on the same day is nice. You should try it some time.
Learn to meal/food prep. Start of every month, I have everything I need ready so that I can pull it from the freezer, stick it in an over/crockpot, and let it cook.
I like it when my meals have some love in it and not made like on a production line. Ponder about it.
Right, because "just Google it" is so much work when you raised your kids to stare into a nightmare rectangle. You know, the same horror brick that caused those mental issues in the first place.
I think it speaks volumes about your parents when their go-to reaction to helping you is pointing you to the nearest internet device. I pity you.
at it's like to pick up toys, drawings and YES, even removing pencil stains from walls
Careful you don't break a nail, dear.
Picking up a fresh bread baked on the same day is nice. You should try it some time.
Literally lost 80lbs cutting bread, pusta, sugar, and all that shit out of my diet.
I like it when my meals have some love in it and not made like on a production line. Ponder about it.
You act like I'm making an entire course and nuking it instead of portioning out ingredients and prepping them for the last mile.
I think it speaks volumes about your parents when their go-to reaction to helping you is pointing you to the nearest internet device. I pity you.
And I pity the person whose day is so fucking nice they complain about how hard it is to pick up plastic toys. Let me know when you start having to wake up at 5:30am, drive for half an hour, and get RSI from grinding concrete off a prefab bed, working so late in the day that you don't even see the fucking sun. But hey, at least it's not washing a fucking wall with Windex.
lmao fucking what
Wake up.
Send kids to school.
Literally nothing for the next 8 hours.
Also, here's the neat thing about kids - they grow up and they eventually take care of themselves. The older a kid gets, the less work they are. The first six years of a kids' life you basically have to do everything for them because they're stupid fuckups (ever seen a five year old insist he can pour his own juice?), but by the time they're seven they can manage most tasks, they can help with the chores, etc.
Even then those 6 years aren't really all THAT much work. Year one is basically just cleaning up their shit. Year two and three is basically making sure they don't kill themselves. Four through six is just performing basic tasks and slinging food at them.
SAHMs want to pretend that they slave away all day. LMAO bitch what, your youngest kid is like 12 years old.
Also, kids nowadays are retarded zombies being raised by tablets. They probably don't do shit like color on walls anymore because they've never seen a marker in real life.
I could accept it, if keeping a home meant actually manually doing everything. But the typical "I organise my organiser to be organised" busywork bullshit a bunch of those stay at home mega mommies do is absolute useless bullshit.
Does she garden? Does she keep her own animals? Everything home cooked, canned, preserved? Does she sew clothes, knit, crochet, make everything she can herself?
No, taking your kid to piano classes and reorganising your fridge the 5th time this month is not 2,5 real jobs.
Women in 1922: Manually beating rugs, hand-washing linens and hanging to dry, growing, harvesting, and canning because you're in the middle of the Great Depression, sewing new clothes out of sackcloth.
Women in the 2022: "'Alexa, ask Roomba to vacuum. Also, send in my curbside delivery grocery order.' God I'm so oppressed by this patriarchal hell."
Even if she does all those things, it's not a 14 hour day, at least if the kids are older. Turns out kids can learn to do every houshold chore if you put in the time to teach them.
I'm a stay at home Dad; I don't "work" 14 hours a day, I'm on call 14 hours a day. During that time I can do pretty much anything I want, including taking a nap, so long as the kids are good.
I also work, so I get a taste of both, and some days I'd rather spend 10 hours roofing than deal with the kids, but to say that they're "working" 14 hours a day is laughable.
You mean that shit literally every single person has to do as a basic necessity of life? Seriously, are you mopping the floor and washing the walls every single day?
Unless you're regularly buying "priced to sell" meats and live within a 5 minute walk to a store, you should be doing (at most) one grocery run a week.
Learn to meal/food prep. Start of every month, I have everything I need ready so that I can pull it from the freezer, stick it in an over/crockpot, and let it cook.
Right, because "just Google it" is so much work when you raised your kids to stare into a nightmare rectangle. You know, the same horror brick that caused those mental issues in the first place.
God, woman today aren't good for fucking anything, huh?
Stop misconstruing my point. If you had small kids you'd know what it's like to pick up toys, drawings and YES, even removing pencil stains from walls. Can take easily 1 or 2 hours a day.
Picking up a fresh bread baked on the same day is nice. You should try it some time.
I like it when my meals have some love in it and not made like on a production line. Ponder about it.
I think it speaks volumes about your parents when their go-to reaction to helping you is pointing you to the nearest internet device. I pity you.
Careful you don't break a nail, dear.
Literally lost 80lbs cutting bread, pusta, sugar, and all that shit out of my diet.
You act like I'm making an entire course and nuking it instead of portioning out ingredients and prepping them for the last mile.
And I pity the person whose day is so fucking nice they complain about how hard it is to pick up plastic toys. Let me know when you start having to wake up at 5:30am, drive for half an hour, and get RSI from grinding concrete off a prefab bed, working so late in the day that you don't even see the fucking sun. But hey, at least it's not washing a fucking wall with Windex.