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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a former SAHM, I'd say she should try to keep her foot in the door somehow.  I don't disagree that a nanny may not be a great investment.  In 3 years you will have nursery school which gives your wife some time to work (not much).  In 4 years preschool will give a more solid chunk of time for PT work.  In 5 years, full day K and afterschool 1-2 days/week will help.  In 10 years when the child is ready for middle school, your wife will probably be able to go back to FT work.  It's a mommy track but we all have our different priorities.

I could never do a nanny because I'd be such a micromanager.  I also recognize that that my mommy tracking in the above fashion helped us avoid private school tuition because my kids tested into NYC's specialized high schools.  That couldn't have happened if I had outsourced the childcare.[/quote]

So all your kids classmates in HS had either a sahm or private school?  [/quote]

I went to one of these schools.
The school was majority asian. I didn't survey everyone but my memory is most had dual income households. 
My mom was SAHM but started working in middle school, before I took the exam. However she also didn't push me that much and didn't have to stand over me to prep. But she did do math with me for many years during the summers. But she did that when working (as a teacher) so it's not clear that it was the SAHM that helped.

A lot of kids have parents who work but have money for lots of prep. Many kids start prep for these exams from a young age. Some kids just study with the $60 test prep book and get in. But having a SAHM is definitely not a prerequisite.

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But out side the classroom enrichment does seem like prerequisite whether administered by SAHM, tutoring, or maybe an intense WOHM burning midnight oil. [/quote]

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