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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I roll my eyes when women claim they need to stay at home for their teenage kids. If you need to stay at home and not work for two teens, you are doing something wrong.

Keep looking for another job but be a little picky if you want. Try to consult and do part time.

Do NOT leave the workforce entirely.

What about college? Is that fully funded in 529s?[/quote]

or leave the workforce and never look back. She doesn't need to work. Enjoy the freedom of never answering to anybody.[/quote]

She could work and DH can stay home too. Why is it always woman who gets to stay home??[/quote]

Because in my experiences, it's the women who actually have the desire to work part time/give up their job completely in return for adding in more "work for the family".  Have not met many men who actually want to stop working in their 40s/early 50s, [b]especially if the trade off was they had to instead spend 5-6 hours a day doing housework/cooking/cleaning/errands/driving the kids to activities/sitting attentively at the kids activities/etc. [/b] Who does it is up to the family themselves.   
In our house, the wife became the SAHP when first was born.  We were both happy with that decision---it was mine to make---I could stay home or send the kid to daycare/hire a nanny.  I chose staying home with my kids, with full support of my spouse.  While they Joke about it, they never would have actually wanted to quit their job and stay home---would have driven them crazy---they wouldn't have wanted to do all the work associated with staying home with the kids and would have missed interaction with adults and doing their job.  While I made over 100K at age 28 when I quit, they still made much more and had the drive/determination to make even more, so it made sense for them to work and me to stay home. [/quote]

Giving up $250k income so you can stay home and  clean during the day?  Hire a house manager for $80k, but do make time to pickup and go to those kids games. [/quote]

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