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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would never voluntarily step away from the workforce and lessen my earning potential. What if my husband dies or we get divorced?
That is worse than my kids having different caretakers for 1/3 of the week when they are young. Also the kids eventually go to school so what do the SAHMs think then?[/quote]

Why does everyone always bring up school as though it’s the great equalizer?

Stay home or work, I don’t care (and I have done both) but does summer vacation not exist in your worlds?  School breaks?  Snow days?  Teacher workdays?  Before and after care because the school day isn’t as long as work day?

Tl;dr Even when the kids start school, they are still spending significantly more time with a SAHP than they would be with a WOHP.[/quote]

We walk the kids to school at 7:15, they are home by 3:15, our neighbor walks the kids home and we walk theirs to school.  My husband works European hours so he is with them until I’m logging out at 5. Not sure how you being at home is so much better than our setup. [/quote]

Kids do a mix of summer camp and grandparent camp all summer. We are lucky our parents summer on the cape and the VT mountains. The kids actually want to spend time around their peers in the summer, not at home with Mummy putting them through the SAHM paces. [/quote]

Once kids are 10 and up, I do think it is possible that a working and SAHM spend the same amount of time with the kids. Kids no longer need childcare. They can walk home from the bus stop or school.

I don’t understand these parents discounting nap time. Nursing, rocking, holding your baby to nap or being the one to see them when they wake up from nap is an important bonding time with your infant or toddler. In preschool and early elementary, parent friendships determine kid friendships often. Moms do lots of play dates, hang out at one another’s homes, go to the playground together, etc. yes, your kids can just go to the playground at daycare with other kids but it isn’t exactly the same experience. You make plans with mom friends to go to the zoo, spray park, new play spaces, new cafes, etc. This was one of my most enjoyable times of my life.
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