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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I stayed home with my kids until they were in full day kindergarten because I literally am and was the absolute best person in the world to raise them through those most critical years of birth to five.  My husband, who fully supported that choice, is the second best person and he wanted to do it too but since he made more money than me he worked instead and spent a whole lot of time with them in the evenings and on weekends.

I don't use this line or info to judge other people's choices but it still is the complete truth for me and my family.[/quote]

So would you say that you raised your kids, and your husband didn't? Or in your mind can parents who "worked instead and spent a whole lot of time with them in the evenings and on weekends" also be said to be "raising" their kids? [/quote]

I was the one raising them most of the time obviously but he was very involved.  Also, when it was time for them to go to a preschool or elementary school a whole hell of a lot of thought, research and discussion went into what schools they would attend since those people would also then be involved in raising our kids.  However, we did not have our kids in daycare at any point because we were not comfortable with that level of child raising for our kids.[/quote]

So I hope you get that working parents are also raising their own kids? Like if you think we're not, it's not that that's offensive to us. It's just preposterous and makes you seem insecure and ignorant.

Also the notion that working parents are just throwing their kids into whatever daycare. Only you are being thoughtful about preschool. Like seriously? Lol[/quote]

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