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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it is possible to have a single family income and SAHM but that requires a lot of lowered expectations. 
No private school, almost no eating out, almost no vacations, hand me down clothing, etc...
The above is possible during the early years because who wants to take toddlers out to dinner or on vacation?

The sweet spot is to take advantage of full-time school to secure a part-time job. That would allow additional income to buttress the additional expenses of children's extracurriculars and the increasingly expensive family life.

SAHM-hood is great but gets awfully boring when the kids are late teens getting ready for college. 
Having a mom who works is inspirational for kids too and gives them a model for "can-do".
I have been both and, well, each family is different with different needs.[/quote]

Or you can have a single income and have all of that.  It depends upon the salary of the single income.

[b]And also, a PT job "while the kids are in school" is difficult.  Do you know how many days the kids have off?   It would have to be a very flexible job to allow that.[/b]  When my kids were little, we used to joke that there is never a month with every day in school (Sept even has holidays in HoCo), then Teacher in service days start in October, PT conferences in Nov, and Snow and other stuff starts in Dec.  Rarely do kids go to school 5 days a week for the full month.

And what do you do with a sick kid?  Until MS+, you cannot just leave them at home all day, you have to be there with them.

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That's kind of the point of it being part time. Duh. [/quote]

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