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[quote=Anonymous]My advice is to take it one year at a time.  I realize that can compromise career options; however, by your own description you are not particularly career driven.  I don’t think you are going to regret time with your child.  I was not able to stay home fully in the beginning and worked part time until my third was born.  I now stay home.  I will say I am deeply grateful to be home even with my 7 year old, fully free during the summer as well as after school.  You may end up surprised how valuable this can feel.  The working parents I know (2 parents working, I mean) find it pretty intense even when kids are school age: helping with homework can be a lot.

I’m still in it with the kid years, so I know I lack the long view, but at present my only lament is not having been able to stay home in the beginning.  Truly.  It still bugs me.  But I did not like working (I pivoted away from a career I did enjoy because it was not family friendly at all— and I definitely don’t regret that.

Some people are more career driven and I do think that changes the calculation.

Agree completely that we make it unnecessarily hard on parents who want to balance work and life.[/quote]

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