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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the first time (other than short maternity leaves) that I’ve ever been able to stay home with my kids. I’m happier, DH is happier, I think my kids are the happiest I’ve ever seen them. Having to stay home and live simply these weeks have made me think we can give up some luxuries that my salary allows to have and still be happy. My friends are expressing similar sentiments and trying to find ways to make it work. Do you think we’ll see a resurgence of SAHM after this?[/quote]

OP, I don't think that what you're experiencing now can really be analogized to what things would be like if you stayed at home. What is different now: (1) for those of us who can easily telework, we could have done it before but now we HAVE to do it so we can do it with NO JUDGMENT. that won't be true after COVID quarantines end. (2) all the activities are shut down. It's easy to say that you enjoy the time at home when no one else is doing anything,  but I don't think not working is really what makes things simpler or not. It's cutting out activities, cutting out travel, cutting out driving kids to 3 activities a week. In a non-COVID world, staying at home can actually increase the pressure on the SAH parent to take kids to MORE stuff. So not as cut and dried as you might assume.

We actually moved to a higher-income suburb from where we were in DC and I totally regret that aspect of it. I thought we would have all this time with neighborhood kids just hanging around. Nope, everyone is always going to lessons or camps or international family travel. That plus the longer commute means that people are just losing those couple extra hours a day that mean the difference between relaxing and frenetic rushing. I do think that European countries that have 4-6weeks vacation for everyone have gotten this right. Everyone just needs some low-key chill family time.  [/quote]

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