@pucca2009: It's kind of like when my mom is out with my daughter and people winkingly refer to grandma as the mom. She can't stop talking about it for days when it happens.
I hardly think the motives are of creating a pure Benneton ad where everybody is accepting of choices, she wants the bad friends to serve as an embodied after school special Teachable moment.
To expand on the fitness with baby, use the kidlet as a weight.
At first lay down on your back and push them up in the air, down and up again. It's entertaining and the baby will naturally progress to becoming a higher weight resistance. Beware the drool though.
At toddler and beyond, put them on your feet and do leg lifts. Hilarious!
I work full time and it's shocking how few moms I know that do the same.
I don't consider myself financially independent either: I have a husband to support who can combine his shop with schoolhour.
That's kind of the whole point of our "we're in this together" contract.
But maybe that's the other side of the equation: School hours are 9:15am until 3:30pm with an hour off in between for the majority of schools. In city regions it's no midday break, but they're out even earlier.