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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It astounds me how so few posters consider or acknowledge the experience for an infant or toddler—what their day to day is like. It’s a completely different childhood when you can avoid both parents working long hours with maybe 4 months of leave total. Anything that can be done to stagger or extend leaves, to work part time, etc. will improve your child’s quality of life immensely. [/quote]

My kids liked day care. It was warm and lovely and the kids were very well taken care of. It sucked for me to be managing being a new mother, pumping, and working, but they were fine. And now that they're older, I have a lot more flexibility in my hours because of the work I put in then. So it's not that I haven't considered my kids' experience, I just don't agree with this. [/quote]

DP.  My kids didn’t like daycare and didn’t thrive there and I still worked because they are not the only people on the planet, and they are still incredibly privileged.  
I was in a small town where I was the only doctor in my specialty.  I wasn’t going to SAH in order to give them some idyllic toddlerhood. My kids are a little neurotic, but they are fine, and a few people lived that might have died a lot sooner.  I feel like it was a good trade.

The idea that we need to give over privileged children even more time and attention is ridiculous. [/quote]

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