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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I bet the answer would depend on how old the kids are.  I assume there are probably lots of men who might wonder what their wives do all day, once the kids are in school full-time.  I know my guy friends have wondered this aloud to me.  But when the kids are really young, it's cool for the wives to be home with them.

it would probably also depend on the salary that's not being earned.  a $30K earner isn't going to have much impact on the family if the husband makes a lot, but a $100K salary could make a big difference.[/quote]

Nope. Not in this house.  I didn't stay at home until the older kids went to school.  One of my school-aged sons threw up this morning.  You can bet that my husband, away on business, doesn't want to deal with that.   It seems like there is always a snow day/ doctor's appt/ after school sports/illness, especially when you have three kids.

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Agree.  I am a SAHM of 4 school age kids.   While I am sure my husband would love the extra income, he literally wouldn't know how to handle things like snow days, needing to pick up the kids early if they got sick, etc.   He has always had me around to take care of that.[/quote]

To be honest with you, I think kids really make out in the deal having a dad that is so involved.  We split up a lot of our kids events and often juggle the sick days. My boys LOVE it when their dad shows up at school, be it for a sick day or a valentines party. They feel so special having their dad around.  whenever I go to the school to do ANYTHING, I hardly ever see a dad present....they seem to be as rare as unicorns. My boys get so incredibly excited when their dad shows up for any reason, it makes them feel really special. During these snow days this winter, he has been outside for countless hours taking them sledding.

However, my DH is the kind of dad who really enjoys his children. He's always the coach of the teams they are on. Like a magnet, he's the dad that all the boys gravitate to. Everyone knows him at our boys school and when my kids were in K and 1st the teaches would always ask if he could come in and read to the kids because in the teachers words "the kids especially adore it when the dads come in to read."  When they were infants he was getting up in the middle of the night too without complaint. I could never see him being the kind of dad who would take the backset to parenting.

So for me, working has always been a no-brainer for the both of us, its easy when you have a true partner in raising the kids.[/quote]

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