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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Working parents do this all the time without an issue, and for much younger kids.  It is fine.[/quote]

But you are forced to do it so even if it was an issue you would never know because you don't see them.  You chose to both work and put your kids in full time daycare, then full time preschool, school with before and aftercare, and then weeks and weeks of summer daycare/day camps until they start back at school again.  That doesn't mean all kids should or even want to do it.  [b]I think it sucks.[/b]  Kids need a lot more downtime and autonomy instead of an assembly line of 9-5 babysitting scheduled 365 days a year.  Do kids even know how to run off and play with friends anymore?  Use their own minds, make their own fun, use their imagination, common sense and critical thinking skills?  [/quote]

it does kind of suck.  i don't like the model for kids.  but the fact of the matter is that some women want to work and some women have to work - or both.  the other fact of the matter is that even as a SAHM, there are a lot of working moms in all neighborhoods and there isn't always a gaggle of neighborhood kids to run around with in the summer because the other kids are in camps.  so the old model of the 1970s isn't in existence like it used to be.

i crave downtime for my kids, and time with their parents.  i telework 2x a week so that i am home for them after school, and after camp in the summer.  but i work because what the %&$^ would i do with myself for the 7 hours that they are in school each day, 9.5 months out of the year.  i have a brain, i have a degree for which i worked very hard, i am going to use it.  and part time work in my field is almost non-existent.  do my kids have the same type of "free" childhood that i did with a SAHM?  nope.  but they also are begin parented by two reasonably happy adults, and i was very NOT HAPPY has a SAHM for the first 5 years after my kids are born.  everybody is better off these days.  there is always a trade off.[/quote]

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