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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My wife wants to send our child to daycare at 4 months so that she can go back to work. If she waits an entire year she’s worried they won’t hold the job for her and she’ll have to start over again, and she likes her team. [b]She works in education administration earning around 40k/yr. I make 250k.[/b] So we don’t depend on her salary and most would be eaten up by daycare costs, which would be about $1500/month in our area for an in home daycare. I’m okay with daycare but worry that 4 months is too young for our daughter as I’ve seen most advice suggest starting at the 1 year mark.

Interested in hearing people’s thoughts on this. [/quote]

Yeah, this plan is bonkers. Educational administration jobs have a lot of turnover and as a female-dominated field there are plenty of people taking career breaks to raise young kids, so I don't know why she thinks she will forever be shut out. I wonder if she feels pressure from her own family or yours to go back to work. A lot of people are conditioned to think  stay at home parents are the lowest life form, especially if they had workaholic parents growing up.[/quote]

I think you can want to work without thinking that “stay at home parents are the lowest life form.”[/quote]

Yep, I'm a working parent, my brother was a SAHD until his youngest went to preschool.  We both respect the other's choices. The vast majority of parents don't care what anyone else does.[/quote]

The majority do respect others' life choices, but some unfortunately do not. Which is why I'm wondering if she has some baggage about this from growing up in a house where the parents glorified working 80 hours a week. [/quote]

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