What would you give up to stay home?
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| Sat, 08-05-2006 - 8:36am |
Hi everyone.
I have always said that staying home is so important to me that I would give up many things to be able to do that. We live in a very small home, I have no jewelry and we buy all our clothes at Walmart. I know that if I went back to work, we could afford more. But I would never trade being at home for a larger house or more luxuries.
However, after reading this board I have started to suspect that there are things I would not want to give up. If I couldn't send my kids to preschool a couple of hours a day, if I couldn't afford any after school activities like ballet lessons or if I could'nt afford any kind of summer program for them, I think I would have to find a way to go back to work. So basically, I'm perfectly happy to deny myself "things." But I would not want to take much away from the kids.
Of course I would probably have to find a new career becuase I could never work the 80 hours a week my old career entailed.

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**What bugs me about the situation is her moms attitude echos others here. That she SAH with her kids so now they owe her.**
Can you back that statement up? Please show me where anyone has said that their kids will "owe" them one day because they SAH with them.
Hey, so what if work defines, in part, who a person is?
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I wouldn't make major life decisions, such as to SAH or WOH, based on something as variable and changeable as my childrens' happiness.
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"I now spend my time with them, which, in a child's world, is WAY more important than their mom going off to work."
Not necessarily.
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True. But, but as I said in my post, I do believe many younger children prefer their mother.
**If that were true across the board, no mom would choose to WOH.**
Not necessarily. Some mothers, like kbmammm, have made it clear that their child's happiness does not figure into whether or not they WOH.
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