Let them keep digging this hole for themselves...they will bury themselves in it.
Most Americans have mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, duaghters, friends...people they know who either stay at home to take care of their children and at significant sacrifice, or who wish they could.
These people are diss’ing them all and it will reflect on them badly.
...as if though Barack Obama and Michelle had the type of down to earth life’s experiences that these people are trying to infer that Ann Romney does not have.
I know this...even though on a couple of occassions she had to work to help financially get us through, for most of our lives my wife, Gail, has been able to stay at home and raise five children. Doing so, meeting all of those needs and demands, doing all the shopping, dealing with the daytime schooling and sports, juggling money and time schedules, cleaning the house, assigning xhores and keeping track of them, running them here and there, instilling good values and ethic into them...even while they fight and bicker with one another...is harder work than most of what I have had to deal with at my own jobs.
I respect unendingly those Mom’s who make that choice...because when they can, IMHO, it helps improve society and the next generation far better than a day care can. The more who want to do this and can, IMHO, the better for us all.
And in so doing, they get a more healthy dose of what real life is all about and how to make it in this day and age with food, budgeting, crisis resolution, education, etc. (the list goes on and on) than most of us professionals do.
The Man who Despises America
http://www.jeffhead.com/obama-time.htm
America at the Crossroads of History
http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm
Bless those ladies (and gents) because without volunteers, non-profits that do so much in our communities would be in dire straights.
I have worked outside the home all my adult life in the corporate, non-profit and local government world. I supported myself and raised two kids.
My daughter has been a teacher and is now a “stay at home Mom” of three kids under the age of five. If you think THAT is not work, try babysitting them for just one day!
Having served on a local Children and Families Commission for many years, I know that the first five years of life are the most important developmentally. Neglect and abuse during that period of time can actually shrink the physical brain - affecting development for the rest of that child's life. [ http://www.childtrauma.org/ ]
I also know that, in lieu of quality parent time, long term studies have recently shown that children who receive early Head Start and other developmental programs are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to enter the jail population that peers of the same economic class who have not. [http://www.nhsa.org/files/static_page_files/0610CCDD-1D09-3519-ADAF419AF96C38E0/Head_Start_Return_On_Investment_Brief_LAS-yv.pdf]
Quality time from parents in literacy, numbers, appropriate behavior, sports, arts and other skills will lay a wonderful foundation upon which that child can grow into a healthy teen and adult. I would say that it is definitely a job and a demanding one at that.
The early years are also where children gain what is called “emotional literacy.” I believe that the preponderance of the evidence shows that attention given to the parenting and development of young children in their first five years has tremendous pay back in the success of that child as an adult in society and the decreased likelihood that they will require public assistance, court, mental health or other assistance.