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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The truth is that child rearing and caregiving are not the same thing at all. I have a 15 year old that will be a 9 month old cognitively forever. She cannot communicate in any way, we change diapers, bathe her, feed her, etc. She doesn’t particularly interact with the world other than laughing at certain movies or shows. And with Medicaid cuts that could happen, we could be doing this until we die. This is serious caregiving. I would compare it to spending 15 years with someone with late stage Alzheimer’s. And it isn’t doing anything positive for us mentally or physically. I guess the one positive is that I have seen the Mary Poppins movie literally thousands of times and can recite it by heart? We usually watch it five times each weekend plus after school.[/quote] Oh my goodness, this is us. Our DD also added Bedknobs and Broomsticks but it's MP first. [/quote]
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