^^^^ took the words out of my mouth. My $.02.... 1). Your house will never be clean and you will need to cook dinner. You'll come home and your will will have fire in her eyes cause the kids were screaming all day. Don't ask about sex or hunting, just go make dinner. 2). I'd rather have my girls learn lifes lessons from my wife than some random lady at day care. When I compare behavior of my daughters against most day care kids, it is completely different. 3). Health. Never underestimate the importance of a healthy child. I have seen daycare kids who are always sick. My 2 daughters combined have had a fever twice. Healthy child = sleep. Sleep = happy wife. Happy wife = _______. I could go on but in our case, we based all purchases off of 1 income to start off with. Her salary and daycare would have been close to a wash, so it was an easy choice. Best of luck. Red meat is not bad for you; green fuzzy meat is bad for you.
It's kind of too bad that Hooker couldn't have gotten more input from female type people, since I suspect his wife is the one who will be making the decision as to whether or not to be a stay at home mommy.
In a sense I can agree with you. But it's obvious from Hooker's post that he's pretty much open to either choice. They'll discuss it. But, for all practical purposes, it will be his wife who decides what she wants to do. My original intention was to be a stay at home mommy. But my husband informed me that wasn't going to happen, that I was going to go on througn school. So here I am. He was absolutely right. A scholarly shepherdess
Hooker, clearly I can not speak for your or any other families situation. I can however speak for mine. When our second child was born my wife quit her job to stay home. After about 9 months she was stir crazy and went back to work. I think she almost made it a month before the constant worry drove her crazy and she quit to come back home and care for our little ones. Our third was born last may and my lovely wife (now on year 3) is still at home takin care of kids and house. I can tell you this.... is it easy NO is it worth it YES, is the house alsways clean when I get home NO, do I still help out with some house hold chore.. OF COURSE. But all in all we would have it no other way. Then there are the financial repercussions which of course only you can weigh per your circumstances. We happen to be blessed at this point in time as I currently make significantly more money than I was making when we first made the choice how ever there are still sacrifices made each month. Not buying that new truck, losing that extra vacation, etc. But as I said... I wouldn't change it for the world. One last thing... it requires one hell of a good woman to chase around 3 kids run the errands do the shopping all the household duties and still be smilin when you walk through the door at night. I am truly blessed! ( even though she may not ALWAYS be wearin that smaile ) LOL Best of luck to ya and congrats on the lil bastard LOL Cheers
My wife better work a job AND do the laundry, dishes, and cooking. What is all this progressive yuppy crap you all keep spouting off?!
