Rant: Stay at home parents

[heyzeus]

Changing diapers is easy. Even stinky ones. My dog makes smells worse than diapers.

[wart57]

I am sure a lot of people here expect me to chime in a certain way, possibly agreeing with IMA, I will agree with part of it, if you can play xbox at 10 am when your 1 kid is sleeping you have it easy and have no room to complain. I won't pretend to claim a stay at home parent has it easy, I know how difficult the "job" is, all I know is the rewards of that "job" have to blow away the rewards of my job. I know the work is hard, constantly cleaning and cooking and teaching, but to be able to spend that time with my favorite people in the world would be well worth it. The stay at home parents who resent the working parent are the ones that piss me off. If it wasn't for the working parent the stay at home parent would not be able to stay at home, hell they probably wouldn't have a home, clothing, food, diapers for the kids or utilities. The relationship where there is a stay at home parent and a working parent is a classic symbiotic relationship. It is easy to feel you are doing more than the other person, but if it wasn't for the other person, you would not be able to do what you do. I really do appreciate what Mrs. Wart does every day yet she shows absolutely no appreciation for anything I do. People in these sort of relationships really need to look at where they would be without the other person.

[jim]

.. said the farmer who doesn't do [expletive] for 11 months out of the year.

[JL21]

I hate wrapping presents too. But dealing with poop will always trump anything else.

[lukethedrifter]

I hate wrapping presents too. But dealing with poop will always trump anything else.

you don't hate wiping your own ass do you? when you have a kid it's not such a stretch.

[JL21]

Well... yeah, I do hate wiping my own ass. Do people like wiping their ass? It has to be done, but it's a necessary evil, not something I enjoy.

[IMADreamer]

.. said the farmer who doesn't do [expletive] for 11 months out of the year.

Touche'

[lukethedrifter]

Well... yeah, I do hate wiping my own ass. Do people like wiping their ass? It has to be done, but it's a necessary evil, not something I enjoy.

that looks like an old school grb poll question:

Wiping your ass=
a) a necessary evil
b) one of life's little pleasures
c)Leroy

[JL21]

Don't get me wrong. The actual act of pooping is glorious. But the clean-up sucks.

[TimeForGuinness]