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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok not to fuel the fire, but you are outsourcing if the kid spends the vast majority of waking hours being cared for by someone else. Saying otherwise is like having a heavy duty house cleaner once a week and then claiming you do t outsource cleaning because you wipe down the counters between cleanings. You are paying someone to take care of your kid. That is not a controversial point. My confusion comes when type a successful people claim that others are better at it. Really, so being with someone with less education, no parental connection, no real stake in it, possibly different values, is actually better for the kid? As an Ivy League graduate, really you cannot do as good a job at child care? Hard to believe. I am a lawyer but am taking time off to take care of my kids because I know that as a competent, smart, conscientious person (i.e. what made me good at my job), I am in fact the best person for the job. I was bad at delegating at work, and quickly found that delegating the child care was impossible. Many perfectionist a types (like me) claim to be less equipped than their less educated nannies with poor language skills at taking care of their children, and I call bullshit. You just don't want to do it. That's fine, but really, try something a little more believable. [/quote]

During the week, DS, age 2, is in daycare for 6 waking hours and with me 5 waking hours. But then I also have him all weekend, when he's sick, during vacations, and on holidays. So, the vast majority of his waking life is not at daycare. Maybe as a lawyer, things are different for you, but I'm not "wiping the countertops" by having daycare. And my daycare provider has been teaching kids for more than 30 years. Hell yeah she's better at it the fundamentals than I am. I'm a work in progress. That's like saying I'd make a better lawyer than you with no legal training.[/quote]

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