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[quote=Anonymous]It's going to be really, really tough on that salary. When you have that sort of salary you generally don't have the kind of job where you can work from home when your kid is sick, or duck out of work last minute when your kid's school calls and you have to run there. Also, depending on where you live, your kid may be very jealous - my kid is poor and she has friends who travel internationally a couple of times a year. It'd be a huge budget-planning moment to scrape together the money for getting a passport. She's constantly telling me "Yukina does gymnastics; can I do it? Lily does soccer with Skylar; I want to do soccer."  We'll leave a birthday party and all the other moms will be taking their kids to dinner and invite us and DD's face falls when I say no and it's because I can't afford that. Now she's 12 and wants to go to the mall and buy little trinkets and snacks with her friends and that's at least $20 each time.

Plus, EVERYTHING is on you. Every diaper change, every meal, every single decision. Sometimes it's nice - nobody argues with me about a parenting decision (aside from the kid), but sometimes I just wish someone ELSE could solve the latest problem or cook dinner, or haul the kid where she needs to be, or help her clean her room. [/quote]

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