These women are CRAZY!

Thursday, March 13, 2008

I'm sitting, waiting to interview Adrian Stark, the first "Soccer Mom" to be featured in the new TLC show, The Secret Life of a Soccer Mom. As I hide in my husband's office, waiting for her call, I'm also checking out the TLC-hosted message boards related to the show, and all I have to say is...

Let me back up. As you may know, the premise of this new show is to take stay-at-home moms (SAHM) and turn them into work-out-of-the-home moms (WOHM, I think) for a week. Then, after a week, they have the opportunity (at least Adrian did) to go back to staying at home or to shift gears and become full-time working moms.

The TLC-hosted message boards allow viewers to air their thoughts about the show. Or, in the case of the threads I just read, their ideas related to parenting, SAHM vs WOHM, education, other women. There are a lot of fired up mommies on those forums, both stay-at-home and working.

It's like witnessing an electronic catfight, and it is not pretty.

It seems to me that the majority of people participating on the forums are "enthusiastic" stay-at-home moms, which makes me wonder - why are the working moms subjecting themselves to the abuse? I'd much rather spend my time chatting with friends than arguing with strangers.

I'm going over to our group on Big Tent. Meet you there?

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While I am a SAHM and sometimes wish I could return to social work (the ugly, dirty kind no one really wants to talk about), I am lucky enough to be able to stay home. My husband's job moves us frequently and I have struggled to find a way I could keep starting over. And I don't have to work for financial reasons. I will NEVER judge someone based on their decision to work or not. Kristin, thanks for cluing us in to this exchange and thank you for never making a distinction on Manic Mommies between working and SAHM. As one of your tshirts says, every mom is a working mom.

Posted by: KbRadcliffe | March 14, 2008 01:58 PM

It is a shame that there are those who feel that a SAHM vs Working Mom dialogue is beneficial. I am currently a SAHM, but I have been a Working Mom, a Grad School Mom and a Freelance Mom. I've lived all over the U.S., Canada and Thailand. Along the way, I've met many strong, capable women, who have made all manner of family life choices. It is important to respect a woman's choice of how best to care for her family (and herself). Furthermore, it is crucial that we all recognize that there are many pathes through life and we can change our own course as our life's circumstances change. We should do what is right for ourselves independent of what society deems to be the "right choice. Finally, we must remember that a choice different from our own is not a cricitism of what we ourselves have chosen.

Posted by: Sheri | March 16, 2008 07:26 PM

These women are CRAZY!

Thursday, March 13, 2008

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