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[quote=Anonymous]Someone else posted several pages back about how hard it is to be "on" for another person all day. I could have written that.

I stayed home for three months when my daughter was about a year old. I wasn't bored all day, but by the end of the day my face hurt from trying to paste on a smile when I wasn't feeling it.

Don't get me wrong -- I *love* my child. I can take twice as much one-on-one time her as I can with just about anyone else in the world. But I am a serious introvert. I cannot spend all day engaged with another person -- not even my own child.

At work, I sit in my cubicle without any human eye contact for long stretches of time, and I love it that way. (Of course there are definitely things I regret about working full-time -- I would love to work part time and get home earlier so our evenings weren't so rushed.)

But parenting isn't only about the quantity of face time you spend with your kids, and just because I'm an introvert, doesn't mean I'm a bad mom -- there are other areas of parenting where I think I am pretty good, especially as my child gets older (she's eight now).

My daughter is an awesome, awesome kid. Most of that is her, but I'll take a little bit of credit for providing an environment where she can thrive, even if that turned out to be day care.[/quote]

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