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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You would probably think I hire an insane amount of help and don't know how to parent my own kids...but I truly don't care. I have the means and value my sanity. I work FT, and so does DH. I grew up watching my mom come home tired from a full day on her feet working and then cook dinner and deal with all the random demands of 3 kids. Of course she managed, but what benefit did it give us to have an exhausted mother? My parents could easily have afforded more help. My mom constantly tells me that she is so happy I have help and regrets not hiring more when we were young.[/quote]

How much help do you have?  We both work ft (and dh well beyond that) and have a full time nanny and a once a week housekeeper so I’m already lucky to come home to a clean house and not have the grind of getting kids to daycare.  But I have a weird hang up that I feel like if I’m home, I should be doing it myself.  If I get home early I always send the nanny home as soon as I’m home (I still pay full hours as I should), I’ve never before hired a helper on weekends. My neighbor always has her nanny stay the full hours even when she or her husband are there to keep cleaning up after the kids / prepare dinner / be another set of hand. That just feels so weird to me but I don’t know why. And this weekend was amazing [/quote]

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