Oprah would often declare that being a stay-at-home mom is the hardest job in the world. She was dead on.
Recently, my husband, two kids and I took a vacation (within driving distance) for five nights by the beach. It was fantastic. Just the four of us spending family time together from daybreak to sunset. It was one of...
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What's hardest for me is when we're home and he doesn't want his sister to have ANYTHING because it's all his. Meh. They're kids. But life is tough and we get paid when our kids are (hopefully) fully functional adults and can take care of us when we're old and decrepit. 
Pregnant women often hear rude comments. Turns out SAHM get dirty looks and rude comments too.
I thought it was noteworthy that she said "SAHM" as opposed to "parents."
Was she expecting something different? Kindo makes me wonder, had she ever seen kids before? Was she thinking that they were just going to sit quietly until age 5 when they'd go to school, at which time they'd be at school all day then come home and watch Seseme Street until bedtime? Hell no, man. Just imagine how she's gonna feel in 3 years when her 6 year old is on the computer checkin' out porn. I bet she'll yell at her babysitter and call her/him a failure.
I'd be willing to bet that this writer probably had researched buying a car more than having kids. I bet she knew that her Prius would cost $28,000 for the initial purchase, plus the battery pack would last for approximately 4 years until needing replacement, which costs $4000, but 32% of owners are able to get by for another year without immediate replacement. And that after 2 years the car's value would depreciate approximately 62%.
As a professional who deals with human behavior, one would expect that she would know that people will do anything they can to get whatever it is they want unless they're taught that inappropriate behavior will yield a result different than what they were hoping for. I'm not even a behavioral professional and I know that if you put a rat in a maze with a chunk of cheese at the end, it'll explore every route until it finds one where there's cheese at the end. It'll remember that route and use it every time it wants cheese.
Either this is something she didn't think about or expect or she wrote this for people that it wouldn't have been understood beforehand. Probably the latter, but yea, there does seem to be a trend that I've seen where people lately don't seem to expect that being a parent is anywhere near as difficult as it is.
