Posted on 12/27/2022 10:56:30 AM PST by grundle
My husband and I spent our first seven years of marriage building our careers.
When our second child was born, we realized how expensive day care would be.
My husband decided to stay at home with the kids, and I grew my career — and our family thrives.
Sixteen years ago, my husband and I decided to make a big shift for our family.
Peter and I had spent the first seven years of our married life without kids, supporting each other in our separate career goals. When our son was born, we continued to balance it all, but when we welcomed our daughter almost three years later, the reality hit us.
We now had two children under the age of 3 and two demanding career paths — his as a classically trained chef who never had weekends or holidays off, and mine as a creative-agency founder just getting her company off the ground.
On top of this, we discovered that day-care costs for two were not cheap. As we considered our options, we recalled what my husband said jokingly when we became parents: "Whoever is making more money goes back to work."
Back then, I knew in a flash that would be me and I would love that. With our daughter's arrival, it felt like time to revisit the thought.
When we talked it over seriously, things came into perspective. We realized that in paying for day care for two, we'd be making only about $10,000 more a year by having two incomes. I knew I could find a way to fill that gap. And if Peter, who had always been a hands-on, nurturing parent, became a stay-at-home dad, the kids would have an incredible experience. It made sense.
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“I’m 65 but I can tell you this is a whole Nother world about what defines masculinity when I was young men were very masculine and you could get your ass beat for running your mouth...”
The latest developments in Early Childhood Development indicate that for the sake of the Whole Child, it necessary to see to his every need. So, rather than get angry when the child ‘acts up’, instead look in the mirror and see how you may have wronged the precious child. Then try to improve yourself, perhaps by taking some parenting classes, or talking to professional, a woman who has dedicated her life to helping the Whole Child, despite the horrible parents (fathers, in particular) that all children have.
(don’t laugh, some, even here, believe this crap)
Bill Clinton?
“I’ve a been a real jerk at times........
You have over done me....DH”
Why, goodness... Thank you! It’s nice to be appreciated!
LOL... nope. Not me senorita. I don’t run around upsetting the natural order.
“Since I made more money, he became a stay-at-home dad. And I started screwing the real men at work.”
It has always been thus...
“And the children, who had been singing praises to me, LIED ON ME, and said ‘Uh-uh, we asked for eggs and milk and Dad made us eat THIS!”
About halfway through that paragraph, I started feeling a powerful urge to vomit. Thank you for ending it, before I defiled my keyboard.
You are welcome....!!!
Few here have more time in parenting more children than do I of both sexes
Let’s ask someone here who knows the results and has actually done some parenting or mentoring himself to my oldest male offspring who thinks the world of Matt
Man has to be a man in my view
And yes my wife works now too after 22 years at home raising five
Im not what you hunch
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