If the letter-writer -really- wanted to know what the stay-at-home mom did all day, I think she should offer to go over to her friend's house and spend a day with the kid. Get first-hand experience on making the bottles, changing diapers, helping the kid with Every Little Thing, and really seeing first-hand how exhausting it was. I don't know a single parent who wouldn't occasionally LOVE to have a friend offer to come over and be company and actually try to help take care of a kid, even if the friend is childless and needs to be taught some things.
Because honestly, hearing "changing a diaper and prepping a bottle" doesn't -sound- difficult at all, unless you have experience with the nerve-grating screams telling you what a horrid person you are, and the adrenalin rush that comes from needing the food NOW NOW NOW or the world will FALL INTO CHAOS.
So, internet searches, talking to other childless friends, and writing to an advice column because the idea of getting hands-on experience is too impossible an idea? To me, that sounds very much like someone who is refusing to be educated. So I would also probably react with some snark to that tone of question, but I'm not really known for my patience.
Because honestly, hearing "changing a diaper and prepping a bottle" doesn't -sound- difficult at all, unless you have experience with the nerve-grating screams telling you what a horrid person you are, and the adrenalin rush that comes from needing the food NOW NOW NOW or the world will FALL INTO CHAOS.
So, internet searches, talking to other childless friends, and writing to an advice column because the idea of getting hands-on experience is too impossible an idea? To me, that sounds very much like someone who is refusing to be educated. So I would also probably react with some snark to that tone of question, but I'm not really known for my patience.
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