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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stay home for 3 yrs, back to work for the other 15. [/quote]
+1 best of both.  Your kid will be thankful that they have a fully funded college account when they start picking which colleges to apply to. They won't remember (or care) that you were not home with them all day when they were 4 or 5. [/quote]

Yes they do.  A memory is a physical brain structure, right?  Just because your child can’t verbally recount a memory doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

(I see the triple negative there, and I’m leaving it!)[/quote]
and yet, the one who went to daycare is in college with merit and doing great -- straight As, with a college fund that is fully funded, so they will have $$ leftover.

What will you tell your kids when it's time for them to apply to college?

My sister was a sahm.  They did not save for college. My niece got into a great slac that she wanted to go to, but they could not afford it even after merit aid - niece is very smart.  So, she had to go to the state school that gave her merit. Luckily, they had enough to float the difference but that is also because there were no other kids that my sister had to pay for. If you have multiple kids, and you are a donut family, you will be sol for college expenses.[/quote]

My parents both worked and they still couldn’t afford college.  My siblings and I went to *gasp* state schools and *horror* took out student loans!!!  They didn’t even pay for our weddings or our down payments!  We even had to buy our own cars!!!

We’re all fine.  I honestly don’t get why so many DCUM folk look down on parents essentially coddling their young children while simultaneously looking down on parents who DON’T coddle their adult children.  It’s non-sensical.[/quote]

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