Did your mom work full-time?

Yes and no.
My father became disabled when I was 10. That meant my mother (and the children) assumed the job of running the dairy farm and all the work that entailed. She was on the property but working. She got up at 5 AM and went to the barn to begin the milking. The older teenagers got up a little later and went to help until 7, when they returned home to get ready for school. When I was about 13 I was old enough for the dairy barn work.

We didn't get to go to anyone's home. Friends could come to visit and on rare occasions I spent the night with a GF.

Not until I was in 4th or 5th grade (age 10 or 11.) Then my parents worked opposite shifts so my dad was leaving for work when I got home from school and my mom got home an hour later.

My mom quit her 9-5 M-F job when I was 16, and then worked retail, so then her schedule was more all over the place.

no - she worked before marriage (teacher) but was a stay-at-home mum until Dad retired (Army) when I was almost 10. She worked as a substitute teacher after that and then in my mid-teens, worked very part-time, first at a video store and then at JCP. She went back to fulltime teaching when my dad died - at that point I was 19 and my sister 15.

My grandma (b.1903), on the other hand, was a working mum. She worked before her marriage and then once her kids (b. 1936 and 1941) were schoolage -her parents lived with her so she had built-in childcare. Her mother (my great granny b.1869) was also a working mum - she ran a boarding house.

I worked when my oldest(now 32) was 2.5 until I had my second when he was 9 but I've been a sahm since. I'm 53 now and only have my third at home but I don't forsee returning to the workforce.

No. It wasn't until I was 8 years old that she went back to part time work. And she stayed in that position until she retired. My grandma and grandpa helped out with pick ups, when I was sick and my mom couldn't take a day off, during summer when year around became a thing.

I think I was 8 or 9 when my dad got laid off from his job at Caterpillar, so my mom got a job. My dad did other part time jobs for a bit. They taught night school classes and my mom also helped her mom with her advertising business (but it was a small business and grandma couldn't pay a full time position).

Eventually they got divorced when I was about 11 and Mom had a steady 9-5 job, so did Dad, but they both paid minimally. The area was pretty depressed at that time with lots of farm machinery places closing down and outsourcing. The economy sucked in the early 80s in the "farm belt" for people that worked at Deere, CAT, IH, etc.

I was responsible for myself and my (five years younger) sister after school from about the age of 10 onward. At first we had a babysitter to go to after school but I think I was a strong advocate of being able to do it myself. Plus, that was money we couldn't much afford.

I had my Kangaroo shoes with the little pocket that I kept my key in on one side and a quarter for an emergency call in the other, in case we had to call for a ride or something, but that really never happened.

I was always pretty independent and I'm sure that helped.

Yes and no. Mom started working when my younger brother was in kindergarten, so I was in second grade. I would have been 7-8 years old. We went to a neighbor’s house for an hour or so until Dad got home. When I was 10, I started babysitting my brother after school so that mom didn’t have to pay the neighbor lady, but my brother still went there in the summer. I may have for a year or so, but then just stayed home myself once I started babysitting (at age 10)! Can you imagine hiring a 10 year old to babysit your kids?!!

I don’t remember anyone ever getting us when we were kids if we were sick. They both worked in Minneapolis, which was a good 45 minutes from the elementary school and an hour from the MS/HS. 

She did. She worked before my brother was born and kept working only taking short maternity leaves. She was a teacher. I went to a babysitters house before school and after kindergarten. Once I was in school I went with her in the mornings and read before school and after school I’d play on the playground, read, help with things in her classroom.

I was pretty little when my mom went back to work. Maybe 4 or 5? My parents sort of switched roles at that point before they both were going into work full time.

Meanwhile I went back to work when my daughter was 11 weeks old. Aside from some months where I was laid off, she’s only known me and my husband to work. Fortunately, we both work remotely from home.

No

When all of us were school aged she started subbing (she was a teacher before she had kids) at the school we attended.

She did not. When all of us were done with school, she worked part-time for her "mad money."

My mom did have quite a scare, though, when my dad had a heart attack at age 36. Had he not survived, she would have been the sole breadwinner for our family. She had some college credits and the work experience she had before I was born (bank teller, dental assistant) but no way to fully support a family. Do I think she would have found a way? Most certainly. She's smart and determined and we would have been just fine. Luckily, my dad survived and they are both in their 80s and doing great.

This did cause my parents to insist my sister and I got college degrees leading to careers that could support ourselves and a family. I'm thankful for that and how they paid for both our schooling so we would not have debt.

My mom worked 2-3 days a week, I was around 6. My dad is a farmer so once my sister and I were a bit older we went home on the bus. Dad was in the yard but he didn't come in until supper, but could have be yelled for in an emergency. Mom only worked until 4:30 and was home before 5. She never did work full time, later she had a different job that was seasonal, only 0.4 of the year at the most and less as time went on.

My father, an attorney, died of a heart attack when I was three and my brother was six. My mother never planned on working, but she had to go to work to support my brother and I. She worked in a shoe shop for awhile and then took a huge chance and opened a women’s clothing shop. She operated her store successfully for the next twenty years’ or so.

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She was on welfare the first two years of my life. Worked part time for a while then full time once I started school. I grew up with the Boys & Girls club and my grandma (who was a nanny) as my after school/summer care. I became a latchkey kid at 12.

The year I started school was the year she started working. By then, my older sister was in 4th grade, and my younger brother was 2 years old. He is the only one of us who went to daycare. There actually wasn't any daycare available until then either, at least within a reasonable distance from where we lived.
She worked full-time in the same job she started in, and retired last summer after 37 years. She worked in a government office.

At the time (1986) we lived in a newly built neighborhood, and most people were young families.There was a good mix of women who worked and didn't worked. By the mid 90's most of them seemed to be working. That probably coincided with the kids starting school.