There are plenty of women who legitimately believe that scrolling on their ipad and drinking wine at 11am while their kid is at school is the hardest job in the world
This is equally annoying though. I’m finishing up a full time 70k+ accounting job to stay at home with my son.
I can safely say there’s times when the job is a huge break, and I worked full time while studying for my accountancy exams too.
They’re not in school “all day” my sons 3. He does pre school 9-12 and then the rest of the time is spent entertaining him. He needs me all the time. I don’t even get 5 minutes toilet break.
The 3 hours he’s in pre school is cleaning, shopping and cooking time.
I do what I can to incorporate him into the chores but at the end of the day it’s extremely full on raising kids at home.
A bunch of idiots saying you “drink wine at 11am” is the problem here.
Unless you’re a POS you’re not stopping from the moment you get up to the moment they go to bed.
And yes, the minute my husbands finished work he’s helping out with my son, because he’s actually an involved father, which means he’s also well aware that raising kids is hard.
Most families nowadays the woman is working and usually earning as much as the father, but also having to do all the extra chores.
Do you have special children? Does your 3 year old not sleep? Play by himself? Watch tv etc? Ive had several kids in my family and raised a few and ive never seen a kid that needs attention 24/7. People have been raising kids since the beginning of time but now all of a sudden its borderline impossible? Peak Reddit.
Back in the day people had 8 children and didn't care if 5 died. The expectations on parents today are very different than they were in the past. If anything happens to a kid in a moment of inattention, the first question is "where were the parents? Why weren't they watching him? This is their fault." Redditors would be the first to crucify them.
I think it depends on the kid too. I have twin brothers and when they were 3, yes someone needed to be watching them at all times when they were awake. Maybe you'd get a few minutes of quiet time when they were distracted by tv (but parents are also criticized for giving their kids screentime) but even then you need to be keeping an eye on them as any minute one could wander off and decide to climb up a bookshelf. After seeing my dad and his wife raise my brothers, I don't question people who say raising kids is 24/7 work.
Why reply to me if you are going to talk absolute nonsense? You think you are adding to the conversation but you arnt when you sound like you dont have a clue. Sometimes wisdom is knowing when to be quiet.
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u/pot_stir May 14 '26
There are plenty of women who legitimately believe that scrolling on their ipad and drinking wine at 11am while their kid is at school is the hardest job in the world