Mom is a 6-Figure Job

[CNF2002]

I love these

http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/03/pf/moth ... tm?cnn=yes

Good news for Moms. I'm wondering how much Dad would make as:

Home handyman, automotive technician, board chairman, computer repairman, bodyguard, detention guard, lawn maintenance worker, pest control technician, plus all the regular homework we have to do: Cook, janitor, housekeeper, etc...though we'd have significantly fewer weekly hours in those last chores

Aside from the fact that working for your home is working for yourself and your family...you get paid by having wonderful children who grow up and contribute to the world.

And I'm sorry, but you can't put a dollar figure on that. Some things money can't buy. That, and I dont think anyone would pay me to do my own laundry.

[Myself002]

And I'm sorry, but you can't put a dollar figure on that. Some things money can't buy. That, and I dont think anyone would pay me to do my own laundry.

I wish they would. I think I would do a lot more laundry.

[camthepyro]

CNF2002
PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2006 7:46 am Post subject: Mom is a 6-Figure Job
I love these Very Happy

http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/03/pf/moth ... tm?cnn=yes

Good news for Moms. I'm wondering how much Dad would make as:

Home handyman, automotive technician, board chairman, computer repairman, bodyguard, detention guard, lawn maintenance worker, pest control technician, plus all the regular homework we have to do: Cook, janitor, housekeeper, etc...though we'd have significantly fewer weekly hours in those last chores Wink

Aside from the fact that working for your home is working for yourself and your family...you get paid by having wonderful children who grow up and contribute to the world.

And I'm sorry, but you can't put a dollar figure on that. Some things money can't buy. That, and I dont think anyone would pay me to do my own laundry.

Exactly. Everyone seems to think mothers are the only ones who help around the house. Like it's I Love Lucy or something, where she sits at home all day with the kid, and does everything, while the husband goes to work and nothing else.

Think about it, when you were a kid (mostly talking about guys here), who did you respect more? Most likely, unless you had some sort of family issues, your father. He put food on the table, paid the heater bill, and still had time to talk to you if you needed his advice. Who had the hard job of punishing you? Usually the father, I guarantee any mentally healthy man, does not enjoy punishing his kids.

I think society tends to over exaggerate the woman's dominence in the home.

[Myself002]

hmm well both my parents worked and both of mine would punish me. As far as advice I would also ask both parents. It all depended on the subject.

[CNF2002]

Sorry cam I have to disagree with you there. Now stuff like this is really just to make stay at home moms feel appreciated, especially when they find out they should be getting paid more than their husbands

But I respect both of my parents equally. They both worked hard to raise me and give me a good life, and they still do even after I've moved out for many years.

They had different roles in the family, just like I had MY role in the family. It didnt make either of them more or less valuable. Just because dad fixed the car and mom did the laundry, dad worked 40 hours while mom was still in school and working part time to get her career going (working around MY school schedule, btw...which says alot, especially these days when mothers just cart their kids off to daycare when they become inconvenient).

Respect her less than dad? Heck no!

[ZooTech]

So, what's a single father worth?

[Loonette]

So, what's a single father worth?

Triple his weight in gold!!

Honestly - ZooTech has more on his plate than I could ever imagine.

The fact is, raising a family is a labor of love. There's not enough money in the world to pay for the investment required to see your kids through to adulthood. Scan and I don't hold every role in its traditional fashion, but some we do. We do whatever we can to make our family life run as smoothly as possible. I don't get an "allowance" - our money is in one account with both of us using it for our family (and my tattoos!!). Since we first started living together some 21 years ago, we shared everything. We determine the household budget together, and I do the bookwork. In our past, sometimes I had jobs that paid more, sometimes he did. Now that we're raising our family, he is able to make more money than I am, so he's the full-time paycheck monkey. I get paid with the respect and love that my family shows me and with the help that they offer. We all pitch in around the house, and I work part-time a couple evenings a week.

I think those fluff news pieces come up because so many stay-at-home moms feel under-appreciated. I've seen it first hand - the husband who feels that he's entitled to have his wife wipe his azz all his life. Geesh. I just ignore those stories, and I can safely say that none of the women I know even care about those things - or at least we're never sitting around talking about it.

"camthepyro" - you have a very old-fashioned view of family life. I mean, it's even older than my generation. Both of my parents worked because they pretty much had to - first because they both wanted to get a higher education (costs big money) and then because they got divorced, and that's never cheap. My brother and I respected our Mom way more than our Dad because he was a big jerk. It was our Mom who gave us advice and guided us in our life. Respect is not gender-specific, nor is it common to any one situation. It's all in how people treat each other and live their lives.

My kids respect me and my husband the same. I think they appreciate different things about us as far as our personalities, but they understand that as parents we are a team and that each of us is just as authoritative as the other.

Cheers,
Loonette

[CNF2002]

So, what's a single father worth?

Its not PC to ask such things

[QuietMonkey]

that's an interesting article, and in the overall scheme of things i wish we were not so consumed by trinkets and toys, because the most valuable parts of living do not pay well, and should not pay well (in monetary terms, as was mentioned above - can't put a $ figure on it).

It would be great if people had more time to contribute to their family and community, to build a cooperative and healthy competitive nature into our lives, rather than the destructive (i.e. selfish, high-profit personal gain while ignoring the greater good and long term effects of our actions).

A society with shared values, and solid infrastructure (healthy, confident, caring, open-minded people) has great potential to help other people in their own city and beyond. The strength a mother and father and extended family can bring to others changes people forever. Sharing in the prosperity of north america and much of europe to make the world a more "equal" place for everyone is easy if we'd stop trying to take so much for ourselves...

[SuperRookie]

So, what's a single father worth?

Triple his weight in gold!!

Cheers,
Loonette

Cool...I'll take my $5,191,200...large bills, please [/b]