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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My concern has never been the quality and quantity of time I spend with my kids.  My concern is the quality and quantity of time they spend with others. Am I going to warehouse my children 10 hours a day so that they can spend 2 hours in a luxurious home with me?  Am I going to drop them off to a middle class daycare in a home where I would not be comfortable for 10 minutes?

It's such a small amount of time to sacrifice to raise your children to school age.  What good is your career satisfaction if your kid is being warehoused by people who do not love them during the most formative years of their lives?  I didn't love being a SAHM, but I loved my children and I made that sacrifice for them.  Sometimes you have to do things that aren't your very first choice in the world, but you do them because they're right.[/quote]

Could you please refrain from using such loaded language? A child spending time with a nanny, a small in-home daycare, or other comparable option is not "warehoused." In this economy, dropping out of the workforce may not end up being "such a small amount of time." The news is full of people who have been laid off and have spent the past several YEARS trying to find any sort of job. There are plenty of us who work and still [b]love our children every single bit as much as you do[/b]. To imply otherwise is insulting. If you didn't mean to be, then I'm asking to consider your words more carefully. If you did mean to insult all women who made a different choice, then I'm asking you to consider a whole lot more about yourself. [/quote]

I think your response is beautifully written and heartfelt. As a mom who's been in the education profession a long time, I agree that many of us need to work. Nonetheless, there are a lot of children who spend long periods of time away from their parents because of their parents' decision to pursue an expensive lifestyle. Those couples have every right to make that choice; however, it doesn't negate the fact that they're opting to have others take over much of the parenting role.  [/quote]

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