I just watched this show for the first time last night. Wow. Who made this executive decision to blatantly undermine the importance of a stay at home mom? I was offended and outraged at the close of the program. Everyone's situation is different. It is a huge sacrifice to make, and it's not for everyone. Whatever happened to accepting people's decisions and encouraging each other in those decisions? How does one exactly define an "ordinary" SAHM? I have been a SAHM for 22 years and I am still raising kids. Let me tell you, over the past 22 years, my life has been anything but ordinary. I am very fulfilled and have never regretted the decision to stay home and raise my children. I don't look down on those who chose another path because I respect the decisions of others. Obviously this program does not.

Hello,
What about my exercise machine, I invented. My name is Gail Williams. A name that should be well known, by now. I had to stop working, right when, I was going to pursue my career. Then, I was blessed with a grandson, right out of the hospital from birth. I've been raising him until he turned 18. Also, don''t let me forget about 5 or 6 years later I was blessed again, with another grandson, at 5, and a grandaughter at 2 years old.
My calling, I call it, is my exercise machine invention. I could go on and on about it, but, nobodies listening to me anyway. No one really realizies it, but me, how helpful my machine can really be for millions of people. I've written to so many people about my exercise machine, and explained every little detail about it to them, but it just looks like, WHO CARES!
There are so many different ways it could help people out, you''d be surprized.
Believe me, if I could get my invention on the market today or anyday, it would be making "millions". That's, how sure I am of my invention!
Hey, I'm going on 62 years old, but people don''t believe it when I tell them. I'm also, a "great" grandmother.

Hello,
My name is Gail Williams. A name that should be well known, by now. I had to stop working, right when, I was going to pursue my career. Then, I was blessed with a grandson, right out of the hospital from birth. I''ve been raising him until he turned 18. Also, don''t let me forget about 5 or 6 years later I was blessed again with another grandson, at 5, and a grandaughter at 2 years old.
My calling, I call it, is my exercise machine invention. I could go on and on about nobodies listening to me anyway. No one really realizies but me, how helpful my machine can really be for millions o people. I''ve written to so many people about my exercise machine, and explained every little detail about it to them, but it just looks like, WHO CARES!
There are so many different ways it could help people out you''d be surprized.
Believe me, if I could get my invention on the market today or anyday, it would be making "millions". That''s, how sure I am of my invention!
Hey, I''m going on 62 years old, but people don''t believe it.

How in the hell do you define an "ordinary" soccer mom? I'm a single mom of 3 kids, two of which are atheletes and I am a soccer mom. I have ran behind my kids and their extra curriculum activities while going to school evenings and working two jobs. Why is it that the single mother is always disregarded? We are doing the dam thing every single day without the help at times of fathers. My ex-husband lives in another state so I don't have the luxury of having someone else pick them up from practices, or take them to practices or give me a break! I had to find a way to juggle it all, find a balance and still keep my sanity. I lived on three sides of this coin: I was a working, married women with kids, a stay at home mom, and now a single mom and I can tell you this...I would TRADE working 9-5 any day to be afforded the luxury of being at home with my kids. My dream of being a singer/songwriter became a dream deferred. I am 40 years young currently, and because my kids are a little older I can now try to get out there, but only as a songwriter. So you see, even today I am still sacrificing some aspect of my dream. Shame on you TLC for excluding some of us who could really use the break!

I think this is a great show concept! I have quite a few SAHMs as friends. There are pros and cons to both life choices. As a full-time working mother, I also think that the opposite would be just as entertaining. In other words, have a full-time working mom stay at home, but take away all of her benefits from working!