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[quote=Anonymous]This is ultimately why I quit my job and stayed home with my kids, sorry to say.  I was always worried about the values and attitudes which were being transmitted to my kids once they were old enough to talk, and I never really found anyone whose values and attitudes were close enough to mine that I wanted to give them that power to shape my kids' thoughts and identities.

I even served at one point as a coordinator for an au pair program and ultimately decided that I was less interested in "exchanging" values and ideas with a not very academically inclined Eastern European teenager, as I was in actually passing on our family's own values and attitudes to our kids.

I felt like having someone else spend that much time with my kids and shaping in that way would only work if they were really an awful lot like me -- feminist, socially liberal but still religious, kind of type A, etc.  
I think I was probably the employer from hell because I wanted to choose what the kids ate, the music they listened to in the minivan on the way to swim lessons, etc. All of that was really important to me and it ultimately made it impossible to delegate.
It sounds like that's kind of what you're struggling with too. [/quote]

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