Stay at home mom? What do you DO all day?

I did being a stay at home dad for a few years. I didn't like it much, although it was fun in small doses. These days thanks to retooling my skill set as my stay at home dad side project, I'm a dad that works from home on interesting stuff that pays the bills. My inlaws were not impressed with my house cleaning abilities.

<i>We get a lot of things wrong in our culture. But, when all is said and done, and our civilization crumbles into ashes, we are going to most regret the way we treated mothers and children.</i><p>I am a former sahm. I like this guy.

Great read, thanks. My wife is a SAHM, and so far I haven&#x27;t had any negative comments about it, but would feel exactly the same as you do if&#x2F;when I do run into the same situation. Can&#x27;t say the same when it comes to comments regarding our parenting choice, but that&#x27;s a different matter altogether. People love to be &#x27;right&#x27; (and come off as horribly judgmental) when it comes to certain topics, parenting being one of the worst. I&#x27;ve gotten good at comebacks to those kinds of people.

My life would be so incredibly difficult if my wife didn&#x27;t stay at home. When I come home our 20-month old is ready to play and I just don&#x27;t see how she does it all day, keeping up with a never stopping, never slowing, ball of energy.

This is clearly an incredibly polarising and sensitive issue - have you seen the (9000+) comments on the blog post? Despite the fact that he specifically says that mothers who work aren&#x27;t doing anything wrong, that seems to be the first issue that people defend.