Heart vs. Head: The work status decision
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Heart vs. Head: The work status decision
| Tue, 01-17-2006 - 1:03pm |
Did you make your decision to SAH/WAH/WOH ft/pt based primarily on objective/tangible factors, or with your heart?

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Some people feel that having a parent present, either parent makes for a better parenting situation rather then using othercare.
"Which leads to the obvious question of why it wouldn't be better (if *best practices* is the aim) to somehow allow that absent WOHP more of that all-important time with the kids, perhaps through dual WOHP's."\
Why would one parent (a SAHP) have to decrease their hours with the child/ren in order to allow "more time" with the WOHP? If a dual WOHP family can make enough time for their children, then certainly the WOH part of a SAH/WOH family can too, right?
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So, it's not about how much time a parent needs to spend with a child to be a good parent, it's more about avoiding othercare? Why?
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Sure, but then what's the point of SAH? Just to avoid othercare?
We are talking about other adults being or not being so intimately involved in a childs life to the extent that they can be considered to be helping to raise them. NOT about being so isolated and without social interaction as you claim here.
Wytchy
Jennie
Because I think that in the first few years of life a child benefits more from longer than a couple/few hours a day with their parents. I'd say time is very important to small children- even if they have little concept *of* it. I know mine notice and protest a great deal when I am away for any length of it (time) even if they don't understand the concept.
Wytchy
"Because I think that in the first few years of life a child benefits more from longer than a couple/few hours a day with their parents."
Both parents, or can it be just one?
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So you don't think you're raising them in the early years? That you're just *beginning* to raise them once they enter school age, or preschool? Personally I think I've been raising mine since they were born- and that I'm doing so now- not that I'll just be starting when they hit preschool/grade school. But that's me.
Wytchy
Jennie
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