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Originally posted by jonsagara
I said: go to work
She said: No, I don't want my kids spending their early years with some strange person in a daycare.
I said: Good point. As long as we have the means, that'll be great.
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I would love to have a wife that could stay with the kids in their formative years and then have a job where she could be with the kids either before or after school to take care of them, and my job would allow me to take care of the kids the other part of the day to share the load. But that's in an ideal world and I'm far away from all three components (career, wife and kids.)
I'm working in a latchkey program right now and see kids who get dropped off at 6am and picked up at 6pm. Now, granted, families need the income, but after twelve hours at school and latchkey and say, eight hours of sleep a night, that leaves parents four hours with their kids a day, and that's if they don't have soccer practice or piano lessons to go to in the night. Doesn't seem like a lot of quality time to me.