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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m getting a laugh out of this “firsts” hissy fit.

My daughter took her first steps in my office where she was playing on the floor when I was working late on something. She then refused to do it again for weeks and weeks, home or childcare. Getting to see the firsts are a roll of the dice.

And again something I don’t see male parents told they should quit their jobs to witness…[/quote]

Who told you to quit your job?[/quote]

The “not missing out on milestones is priceless” poster comes to mind.

I imagine she’d put a price on it real quick if her husband told her he was quitting his job to not miss out on firsts.[/quote]

She quit her job because she didn’t want to miss out on milestones.  She didn’t tell you to quit your job.

Something can be priceless to one person and not matter as much to another person.  [/quote]

But it’s not “priceless” to her.

The price is her husbands salary.

If he wants those “priceless” memories they’ll be taking place in a homeless shelter.

The price is another person’s labor sufficient to cover you and all other dependents. Let’s not pretend it’s free. 
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Priceless doesn’t mean free. It means the cost of not going to work was worth it to stay home for those years. For others they either can’t or won’t give up their paycheck to stay home. We’re allowed to make different choices for our own families. It apparently offends you to hear about them. If my husband really wanted to stay home perhaps I would have stayed working but he didn’t so that is a totally irrelevant point. Just say you have no respect for and despise women who do things differently than you. It’s neither here nor there for me because I’d do it all again the same way. [/quote]

I’m not offended by her choices I’m offended by the facile inaccuracy of her “priceless” comment.

It has a price. I would say in this area it’s about $120,000 HHI at its cheapest.

Or are you truly saying if she is a single mother she should raise her children in a homeless shelter because milestones are priceless?

Not feed her children because she needs to see their first steps?

If she chooses the latter do you think CPS will be swayed by the idea that hearing her kids first words is worth their malnutrition?

Say “it was worth it to me to stay home because my husband was willing to support our family on his income” and you’re talking about a choice.[/quote]

You are being too literal.  Unless you are on the spectrum, there is no excuse for not understanding the colloquial use of the word “priceless”.[/quote]

+1. A lot of respondents are taking this discussion very personally. That's why the PP is grasping at straws.[/quote]

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