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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work solely so we can send our kids to private school.  It's totally worth it IMO.  Unless you are extremely wealthy, I don't understand why anyone would SAH after the kids are school-aged unless there are special circumstances (like a child with SN or an elderly parent who required a lot of care), especially if SAH meant having to make sacrifices like not having the option to send your kids to private.[/quote]

This I don't understand.  Personally, I think it is much harder to be a working mom when the kids are ES than when they are in daycare.  Daycare worjs for working moms while ES assumes that parents can bend their work schedules at will  the 3-6 time frame is the toughest.  Also activities in ES can put parents over the edge...signed a full time working mom for over 10 years.[/quote]

+1  - it may be cheaper to send them to public school vs daycare once they are K age, but if your child is involved in any activities or sports, it is really tough to work and stay involved and be there at drop off on bus and pick-up at 3pm.  The after school program at my daughter's school is awful.  Full of the worst kids running around with no structure.  We did that one year and then I went down to PT, then to SAH.  This allows me to get 3 kids her to soccer practice, Girl Scouts, basketball and have piano lessons that aren't after 6pm anymore.  We tried looking for a college kid who could work 3-6pm for us but it never worked out.  [/quote]

Yep, but the sacrifices (handling the logistics) are well worth it to know that they're having a wonderful school experience.  We looked at our "great" MoCo option and were quite unimpressed.  [/quote]

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