Quote From: sdmetromanI get so sick of you women whinning about this topic!
You don't like it? You should'nt have gotten married and had kids!!
The man of the house is bringing home an income to feed the family, buy the cars, buy the clothes pay the bills, pay for college, secure a future.
Heres a news flash!! You should'nt be spending 6-7 hours a day cleaning a house, if your house is that big I'd bet you've got an income to be able to hire a cleaning service to come twice a week.
Floors don't need to be mopped twice a day, toilets and bathrooms can go 2 or 3 days between cleaning, kids can do chores and pickup their toys, if they don't throw them away they'll learn sooner or later.
Bottom line, a lot of this cr@p is brought on by yourself.
In parting, it absolutely disgusts me to see this crybaby Ginger whine about her family in a house fit for royalty with a husband that obviously makes a heck of an income and COMES HOME EVERY NIGHT!
All the while I have friends in Iraq fighting for our country making maybey 15-20,000 a year with wives at home by themselves raising several children.
If you don't like hearing it, then WHY ARE YOU HERE???? Any intelligent person could see that the purpose of this show/board was for women in this situation to vent and get support and advice from each other, not to be berated by some 'Supermom' who apparently has everything under control. Wait, do you even have children? I didn't see any mentioned in your post, so I wasn't sure. If you do, then great, good for you on being so perfect that you have it all worked out. If you don't have kids then you have NO right to judge a woman who does. Comment, yes, but to judge and criticize, absolutly not.
Here's a couple of newsflashes for YOU: First, some don't plan on kids. Personally, I wasn't planning on any. However, I have three. All were very unexpected, but welcome, surprises who are the light of my life.
Secondly, there are many, many days where the floors need to be mopped twice a day or even more. ANYONE who has a toddler knows this. There are constant spills and messes that have to be taken care of, otherwise your house will become infested with pests drawn to the nastiness on your floor.
And thirdly...NO a bathroom cannot got 2 or 3 days between cleaning. In your house, maybe so, however, I have two little boys who use the bathroom who haven't quite learned to 'aim' yet. We're working on it and they are trying. In the meantime, I will make sure that all the pee is cleaned off of the toilet, floor and any other surface that became an innocent victim in the process. Also, their bathtub has to be cleaned almost daily b/c they are boys and boys get very, very dirty. Therefore, their bathtub gets very, very dirty. Perhaps you would suggest that I just hose them down outside? The amount of time a mother spends cleaning has nothing to do with the size of her home. The majority of the time they are cleaning and recleaning the same three or four areas of the home. Not to mention all the little 'accidents'. Have you ever cared for a toddler with diarriah (sp?) ? Toddlers are great about taking off their diapers and running around naked and before you can catch them they've made a nice little poop-trail all through the house.
Oh, and throw their toys away?? That's just about the most absurd thing I've ever heard. Do you have any idea what a grandmother will do if she finds out you threw out all of the toys she spent so much time and money on for the kids??? Before you make this mistake here's another little newsflash: you can just take them away and put them up somewhere. It's just as effective and not so wasteful. Plus, trashing your child's toys in front of them (esp a small child) is just plain cruel.
Oh, and how do you know that Ginger's husband comes home every night??
Here's the deal, I have three little boys ages three-years-old, two-years-old and three-months-old. My soon-to-be-ex-husband walked out on me for someone else when I was five months pregnant and on bedrest. Right now I am in school full-time, I work and I take care of all three boys by myself. Their father rarely, if ever, sees them. I had to take out a loan just to get a lawyer while he's blowing loads of cash on his little girlfriend. I had to move into an income base apartment that is less than 800 sq. ft. My day starts at 5:30 am and ends somewhere around 1am and that's IF everything goes well! I get less than four hours of sleep per night and even that is disrupted several times by nightmares and a hungry baby. I am barely making ends meet, my car is about to die on me and I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to pay the rent this month. However, this is not a game of who has it worse. All of these women have the right to vent. Now, I will say that I probably have a bit of a rougher time than most, but that does not give me the right to judge or berate these hard-working mothers who are just looking for an outlet to get some support from other moms. SO BACK OFF!!!!!
Moms do everything from kissing scraped knees, to being taxi drivers to coaching soccer — all at the same time! Ginger says she is overwhelmed by all the cooking, cleaning, driving and disciplining she has to do for her five children. She says her husband doesn't pitch in because he thinks it's a woman's job. Next, Amy says that with three kids under the age of 6, her house is in utter chaos. Her husband, Jeremie, doesn't know how to help, so Dr. Phil sends in "The Mom Squad" to help Amy get her household in order. And, Lexi says the way her mom dresses embarrasses her, and she pleads with Dr. Phil to help. Learn how to organize your life and even enjoy some "Mom Time." Are you a stressed out mom? Tell us!
