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It Sounds Like A Comic Book Kiss…

by kate baggott on October 29th, 2006

Who would have guessed that the motherhood and identity question had so much to do with acronyms?

Really, so much relies on how women describe themselves as SAHM, WAHM, or WOHM that the entire alphabet seems reduced to about 4 letters.

And, as is the problem with other four-letter words, these acronyms are dirty. Imagine the shame of committed SAHM who finds that she has to take in a few neighbourhood kids as an after-school daycare provider in order to pay emergency dental fees? Imagine the WOHM who, after years of double-duty, is handed a pink slip and sent home to the ever-present piles of laundry and bills unable to afford the daycare costs to enable her job search? Is she now in SAHM-land?

No, these acronyms are just not good enough.

So, I have developed a new one.

Mine is not only more accurate, although it really does describe the lives of all mothers, but mine also avoids the swear-word connotations by having five letters instead of four. Finally, when pronounced aloud, mine sounds like a comic book kiss: SMWAT!

Yes, that’s SMWAT for Some Mothers Work All the Time.

So say it often,

say it loud.

I’m a SMWAT

and I’m proud.

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