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[quote=Anonymous]What would be your game plan? Things will only get more complicated on the parenting/ juggling from here on out until they are 16 (and driving themselves), I would guess. So would you plan to stay at home until then?

For example- once they start elementary school, the school day is a lot shorter, and there are more breaks and random days off to account for. They start doing activities after school and on weekends, and while you maybe can get away with putting them in the same activities for a few years, by mid/late elementary school they will have separate activities and interests.

By the time they are in middle school -  a lot of middle schools dismiss early. So you may have your 11-14 year old at home alone every day from 2:30 to 5:30 if you decide to go back to work then. Summers also become so complicated in middle school. They are aging out of camps, and if they can't walk to a pool or to public transit, there is not much for them to do.

I am pondering a similar move - my kids are 6, 11, and 13. I will have 5 years (and retirement vested) next June. But I have really just started feeling the pressure on wanting to stay home in the past year or so. I am hoping to find something on the school schedule, like a school secretary, just to cover health insurance and have a place to go every day and be involved in the world.  But then I would still get school breaks with the kids.

I was SAHM at various times when my older ones were 0-4, with a few PT stints when they were around 5-8, and I do wish in retrospect I had worked on building my career more and earning some more flexibility down the road. [/quote]

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