What do stay home moms do besides leech of their husbands hard earned money?

Question

I mean doing the dishes and occasionally watching your kids in between soaps doesnt see to be such hard work to me.
I really cant the ones who get a new suv just for popping out another baby, wow, it must be nice to earn a living by spreading your legs and mooching off someone else.

Answer 1

Apparently you have never had a man willing to take care of you.
You sound jealous.
I don't know if you are a single working mom but if you are then you have my deepest respects but don't be hating on women who have husbands who are willing to go the extra mile for them. I have had two wives and neither of them had to work while married to me. I have even worked two jobs so that they could stay at home with the children and I will continue to do so until I can't anymore because I feel it the best thing for us as a family.
So don't be hating because my wife has an opporturnity that you are not afforded or unwilling to take advantage of
Furthermore I am currently serving in Iraq and I honestly think that sometimes my job is easier. Yes we get shot at and work some long hours but we are almost never alone or just dropped into a strange surrounding without some sort of support like alot of military wives. We only serve here for a year to 18 months. Mothers and wives serve for a lifetime

Answer 2

You are a very foolish person. You have allowed this world to convince you that raising your own children and keeping a home running smoothly is not a valid and important way to spend your time. It is sad.
You know full well that you would pay a nanny handsomely for doing the same thing a mother does and you would then pay a maid/housekeeper a good sum for keeping the house clean and tidy, buy the groceries, cook meals and keep the house running smoothly. You would pay a bundle to a personal accountant to keep the books for your household and manage the spending. To pay a nurse to care for you or a child every time there was a medical emergency or skinned knee would cost huge amount of cash.
All of these valuable things that you would gladly pay a stranger to do and yet when two adults decide on a fair distribution of labor that one will earn the money while the other performs all of these services to run the home ohhh all of a sudden she is nothing but a whore and lazy mother.
You are silly and you don’t even know what YOU are worth.

Answer 3

You're lucky you have a husband who works, cause I have never had that. I've got three kids and have always paid all the bills even when a guy is living with me. And I haven't always had a job to do it either. I think the women who have the man pay for all of it are few and far between, but remember that's the way it's SUPPOSED to be. The man provides for the home so that he may have the privilige of having a wife. So unless she's spreading her legs for the mailman, she's lucky she found one of the last few men that are capable of doing their job properly. Cause the rest of the men are the real leeches. Are you just a little jealous that your old man is a total waste of skin? Get a life.

Answer 4

I am a stay at home mom. My hubby & I have talked and made the decision for me to be a stay at home mom . I have put my career on hold so that I can get up every morn, make breakfast, get kids up. drop kids off and on and on and on until I finally get to call it a day after evryone has thier belly full from supper and baths are taken, dishes are done (again) . I lay down and then my mind goes about what I have done all day, what I forgot to do, and will have to do all over again tomorrow. It isnt a five day work week. It isnt just 8 hours. It doesnt end on the weekend. But, in the end.... it's all worth it.

Answer 5

I was a stay at home mom for 7yrs. I got the kids up and ready for school and on the bus. I cleaned, and cleaned, and cleaned some more. There when the kids got off the bus. Homework with the kids, dinner, bathtime and bed.
I scheduled all doctor/dental/teacher appts and attended all.
I pooper-scooped the yard and took care of the dogs; took out the garbage; and brought in wood and made the fires in the woodstove in the winter.
I also played my own sports, coached high school sports, and was a volunteer fire fighter and risked my life for the safety and protection of others.

Uh...no, I didn't leech off my husband and only watched two shows a week--at 10pm when my kids were in bed.

Answer 6

ooo someone sounds a wee bitter. Come on sweetie; stay at home moms give up their careers and life in order to maintain the home and bring up the children.

There are women who can't afford to stay at home and have to contribute to the income. Which, either way you look at it - women contribute whether they are stay at home moms or working mothers.

Neither "job" allows women a day off when the weekend comes. It's not an 8 hour day. The day starts from the early morning hours until late at night.

Being a mother and a wife, or being a single mother is a very hard job for women period.

Know what I can't stand? Judgmental, assuming, jealous women. How about you work on what you want in your life and leave others to live their own? *S* Think about how much nicer your life would be if you let go of your "issues" and concentrated on you.

Good luck! ...........Make that "lots" of good luck! *S*

Answer 7

You are a very foolish and immature person who has no respect for what the "real" meaning of being a wife and mother really is. There is nothing better than being able to give your kids a jump start on education before they begin going to school and being there for them when they get home from school to educate them further and helping with homework. My husband respects me for doing this and I respect him for working hard to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. When we are together intimately it is more than just "spreading legs" it's "making love" between two individuals that respect each other.
I'm sorry you don't have someone like that to make you feel respected and that causes you to lash out at a situation that you know nothing about. Just drop him and move on to someone else.

Answer 8

A stay-at-home mom is many things, indeed: executive housekeeper, laundress, chef, teacher, diplomat (have you ever tried to negotiate a peace between squabbling siblings?), advisor, executive officer--and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

She gives her children their first lessons, from learning how to talk and walk through basic etiquette (who do you know who was born knowing such basic courtesies as 'please' and 'thank you'?), on up to helping with homework, running to get supplies for a science fair project, to trying to break pretty complicated things down into terms that a first-grader can understand (this is especially true if she's a military wife trying to explain why Daddy has to be gone so long).

Have you ever stopped to think that the mothers who opt to stay at home with their children might just feel that they're performing a service for their children of incomparable value? Or are you so spiteful because you secretly envy them?

Answer 9

Some men want thier wives at home and if you are a good mother, you don't have time to watch soaps. To raise and love a child properly is time consuming. When you see a 2 year old potty trained talking in complete sentences counting and knowing colours you see good parenting. When you see a 2 year old in diapers, using a bottle, sucking on a soother and saying 2 word sentences thoses are the soap watching moms

Answer 10

I have been a stay at home wife and I have worked out . I worked a lot harder at home than I ever have on the job. Did you ever hear of mopping floors , making beds vacuuming , cleaning the bathroom, cooking , doing the laundry, making a garden , canning what you grew in that garden , making jam and jellies to help feed your family. Plus giving the kids a bath and settling disputes among them , feeding them , changing diapers , making bottles , cleaning up throw up going grocery shopping , paying bills. some people who stay home doesn't have time to watch soaps or anything else.