Help! Husband pushing me to find job!
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Help! Husband pushing me to find job!
| Tue, 11-07-2006 - 10:35am |
My husband has just taken a leave of absense from his high paying 80 hour a week job to focus on being home more and finding out what he really wants to do. He is now working 3 days a week at a job he really likes. He always said if he took this job he would find another part time job to supplement the income. I am working weekends and babysitting during the week, but my income is a joke. Our kids are 5 and 3 and cry every weekend when I leave. My problem is this: my husband has put no effort in finding that 2nd job he said he would find and is pushing me to work full time. I want to be a stay at home mom, but it may mean him going back to a job he hates. He says the kids will adjust, get over it. Am I being selfish or lazy for wanting to stay home? Is he being selfish for leaving a good paying job?

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Welcome, lol.
PumpkinAngel
No. Personally, I question what kids can get out of algebra in Jr. High. Abstract thinking isn't something you can teach. The ability to think abstractly, required for algebra, is developmental.
Some kids simply will not be, developmentally, ready for algebra in middle school. I was one. I was probably in my senior year before I was there but by then, what I had faied to learn in previous math classes was holding me back. When I started college, they made me go all the way back to algebra for math. It was the best thing they could have done. Even with the material being taught at twice the pace of a high school class, it was a breeze for me. Kids like me should not be forced to take algebra in 8th or 9th grade.
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