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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stayed home on a lower salary for DH than yours OP. Zero regrets. Out family life is so much more sane, our kids eat healthy home cooked meals, are read to every day, and we have a very strong bond. I don’t worry about going back to work because there will always be some type of a job for an intelligent, educated person who has the desire to work, albeit at a lower salary I am sure. So far I have not needed to go back.

No one wishes they had worked more or made more on their death bed. No one. [/quote]

I worked full time outside the home and made every meal from scratch , and read to my child everyday.

I am not sure what image you have in your head of how kids with two working parents are raised. It appears to support your life choices though, so I guess that is good.

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My family is so different from the ones largely being discussed on this thread. We both work full time in government jobs. We have less money than most families described here, but we spend a lot of time together as a family including on weekdays. Obviously, our child gets read to every day (by us and at her child care center). And yeah, we eat out maybe two meals per week? Every other meal is home cooked. Do I think our family is better? Of course not, much of what is described on this thread sounds great. But I feel incredibly fortunate.[/quote]
Not one person here was attacking your family or claiming you or your child care don't have time to read or home cook. They have their own individual needs and made a choice. Completely different situations from yours! It's not an attack on families from different backgrounds to say "I made this choice because it worked for me".
Why do people take this personally? It's not an attack, like saying "your children will view you negatively" or "you are a bad example" like a prior poster did.
If stuff like others considering staying home offends you, why even read the thread?[/quote]

I'm surprised you view me literally describing my family situation and how happy I am with it as me being defensive.. It sounds more like you don't want to hear it. The first PP absolutely did sound like she was saying that if you work full time you can't make home-cooked meals or read to your children. If the PP wanted to say it was their particular situation that made it impossible to do those things then they could easily have made that more clear. The other PP and I were correcting that. As I think I made clear in my post, I have no beef with SAHMs (in contrast to the multiple posters who clearly think working parents do their children a disservice). But it is fascinating reading this thread and seeing the either/or of being a SAHM and spending time with your kids and not being a SAHM and not spending time with your kids. And the amount of money these families have. It's just so different from my life.[/quote]

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