Anonymous wrote:I was a SAH mom who only worked Wednesday afternoons and Saturdays and it sucked. I missed an entire weekend day to hang out with my family. I work WOH FT now and will never work weekends again!
I worked 1 evening per week plus all day Sat. for most of my kids' early childhood. It did suck sometimes but mostly I liked having that break after being on with them all week and it definitely helped DH to step up and be the fully in-charge parent on Saturdays. However, once my oldest was in ES, missing out on Saturdays became really, really hard. I wasn't seeing him as much during the week, couldn't go to the soccer games and so wasn't meeting the parents of his friends. I went back to work FT and it's worked much better for the ES years.