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Originally Posted by MQAAord  Maybe she wants to give her kids the best upbrining possible, and feels that being with them full-time is not giving up anything, rather gaining so much more.
I "gave up" my career too. You know what? Work will still be there later. My kids are more important right now.
Some women go back to work, some take time off to spend with their kids. EITHER is fine! But I hate when people think I've "given up" something or that I'm "wasting" myself being with the kids. |
Damn...I wanted to beat you to posting.
Let me say this, IMO your situation is different. You can't be a mother of young children and be a flight attendant, more especially when your husband is an airline pilot.
Furthermore you had to leave your other job because of babysitting issues.
So I can totally respect why you're a fulltime housewife.
In her situation she could have worked PT from home, only goin' into the office for meetings. Her husbands family isn't too far from their home, they could watch the kid.
Lastly, they both don't seem to like the idea of daycare, and want the child to be watched, educated at home by my cousin, until grade school age.
They're also talking about her not going back to work when the kids are gradeschool age. So that someone is there when they get out of school, to help them with homework etc. Guess they're not too fond of the whole latch key kid thing.
Okay, but does she have to do that 36 or 54 yrs. depending on how many children she has?
Maybe I can't understand it because I grew up with a mother who had 4 kids. A career and got also got two undergrad degrees, two masters and a PH.d.
She still had the best of both worlds as a teacher (her career) and a mother.