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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yep, there's a reason I gave up my career to stay home and DH is on a daddy track to work remotely.

The kids are sponges that repeat everything, absorb everything. We want them learning from us, not someone else.[/quote]

I feel bad for your kids, being raised and isolated by narcissists. Do you plan to homeschool? Because if not, they’re going to be spending most of their waking hours with other people once they’re 5. [/quote]
  
Kids are at school about six and a half hours each weekday. How is that most of their waking hours?
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It's more like 8 hours where I live with the bus ride (and the SAHMs in my neighborhood all have kids that take the bus) for elementary school. School day is long. Even if you pick them up and drop off in your own car, it's still 7 without you. So it actually ends up being the majority of their waking hours.[/quote]

plus more the hours of school are their prime functioning hours.   Sure you get an hour at home in the morning but they're usually waking up and the entire family is doing tasks (so it's not exactly time for deep conversations or learning) and then after school they're at activities/sports/socializing with friends followed by homework.   [b]or when they're younger they're pretty tired/checked out many days after school.[/b][/quote]

Yep, definitely true. Especially when they're in K, which is full-day here. By Thursday/Friday a lot of kids are just wiped when they're done with school.
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