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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not going to quote since it's already long enough, but in my opinion, for parents who both want to work, the best situation is to have flexible jobs. Obviously this does not apply for families where one parent stays at home, but for those that don't having flexible jobs is key. DH and I have that and honestly our kids spend very little time in daycare and we have time to make home cooked meals and have a clean house (we don't outsource anything). Our weekends are spent doing things as a family not running around getting errands done.

The all or nothing portrait of life with a SAH parent or life with two working parents gets old. Most people I know fall somewhere in between. I know plenty of SAHMs who don't cook a home cooked meal every night or have spotless houses and plenty of families with WOH parents who have very flexible schedules/jobs and maybe use daycare one or two days a week.  [/quote]

This.

I can't really relate to these debates. For me working is a no brainer. I do it from home, my DH is in sales and he works from home when not visiting clients or traveling. I actually get sick of seeing him so much.  We don't even have daycare anymore. I'm in Loudoun county, elementary school starts at 730 and both kids do PTA activities after school and we get them at 345. They play or do homework for about an hour while we finish up.

We do though have a housekeeper because who likes chores and grocery shopping? Since we don't have daycare, we easily divert $300/wk to the housekeeping services.

In summer we do hire a college nanny to take the kids to the pool and usher them to various sports camps. At least once a week I go to the pool with them or take them somewhere fun.

Our flexibility is probably the result of continuous work in the same industry in order to be able to be choosier about the jobs we have taken.[/quote]

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