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[quote=Anonymous][quote]It means being the parent who stays at home when the kids are sick or off of school for a holiday or snow day. It means being the parent who takes the kids to doctor and dental appointments. It means being the parent who goes to teacher conferences and volunteers to chaperone field trips. It also means being on duty while your wife goes away for a week or more at a time on business trips - sometimes to really fun locations (Vegas, Orlando, San Diego, Boston, NYC) - while your stuck at home working FT, getting kids to/from school, doing laundry, helping with homework, making dinner.... [/quote]

Speech therapist conference in Vegas baby!!

Seriously pp?.ops kids are in high school, they can get themselves home, do laundry, make dinner, stay by themselves in snow days ...plus it's not like OP's wife going full time is suddenly going to be working 60 hours a week....

Look I understand all the labor (emotional and otherwise) involved in raising kids but in this situation ops wife should ramp up her hours. Snow days and baking muffins isn't a justification to weaken the family's financial stability

I have two elementary age kids, in different schools, , one with learning disabilities. dH travels 8 days a month, me 2-3, with two li g trips a year (a week plus(. We have no family around at all, except for elderly parent we have to visit at the nursing home and take to doctor. We are new to the area too, not much if a community yer. We don't have a nanny.we do have biweekly cleaners. Yet somehow we manage all this and our kids are younger! Fyi, it's not a requirement to chaperone field trips. I try once a year but it's not a requirement of parenthood...[/quote]

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