I've been watching "American Housewife" because I heard good things about it, and it definitely has promise and has made me laugh, although I have my criticisms. One includes the economy-minded kid who is a total ripoff of Alex P. Keaton (accept no substitutes!). There is also the sexy cool lesbian friend who has to remind everyone she's a lesbian in everys scene she's in.  The other was the happy ending one of the episodes tied up with.

Long story short, in the episode, Katie, the titular housewife, feels unappreciated by her kids and her husband and is thisclose to taking her old lucrative, mentally-engaging job back when she goes home and has all sorts of warm fuzzies with her family as they get ready for dinner, so she decides not to go back to work.

The whole episode illustrates how much work, how much of a job it is to be a SAHM, so I'm not going to get my panties in a wad over Katie choosing to stay at home instead of going back to her "other" job. But what made me think "Oh, a parent didn't write this ending" was that they all were having such a great family time at dinnertime.

I feel like dinnertime is the time when she'd be most likely to call her boss and say "Yes I'll take the job, even with a paycut." It's stressful to get dinner on the table and keep your kids in line and try not to let the house get torn up too much and to make sure everything needs to get done by bedtime. Maybe that's just me, though, and I'm not as good a mom as fictional "American Housewife" Katie. But I felt vindicated today when I saw this "witching hour" slideshow in the New York Times that illustrated that, yes, post-school dinnertime is not typically the time when a woman like Katie would think, "I'm glad I sacrified everything for these people."