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Broderick

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12. With my wife starting her own business
Wed Apr 18, 2012, 04:01 PM
Apr 2012

the at home part of raising the kids will shift enormously to me. I admire all the work she did raising them. They are too young for pre-school yet. We will have them in a pre-preschool for some hours per day, and my business can take care of itself a lot of the time and what I do do, I can bring home much of it. I think being at home all day with them like I do on the weekends so she could study or at night can be exhausting, more so than being at work stressed out. Sometimes I got to the office on Monday to recoup. LOL

A stay at home parent is wonderful in my opinion, if a family can afford to do it. I was fortunate that my mother was a stay at home parent. Many families can afford to do it, but choose not to because the lust for "things" overrides all. But many can't afford the basics to raising children if both parents don't work, and it has to be so difficult for single parents. I get upset by the number of parents I come into contact that are single parents who get nada from the child's other parent. Most are women.

Just my humble opinion. No political commentary in this one because I don't feel political today.

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