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Posted on 1/4/17 at 12:43 am to Chazzy McRamzee
Do they make a petite husky?
Posted on 1/4/17 at 3:52 am to genro
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What? : lol:
Don't look like that guy I work with whose wife doesn't work and they have 4 kids together. I keep waiting for the buttons on his shirt to go flying across the room when he sits down.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 7:36 am to genro
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Once you have enough money to live on comfortably day to day and you eliminate real money stress, there is no added happiness benefit. All you can do then is buy stuff to distract from your unhappiness
This is the single biggest life lesson a young adult needs to learn.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 7:51 am to genro
My wife would be miserable staying at home. What works for some doesn't work for others.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 8:25 am to genro
The highest income earner in our household got to go to work. The other got to stay at home. With the first kid, I was making better money so she stayed at home. By the time our second kid came around, my wife's part time startup business turned into a full time business. She was making more than I was so I stayed at home. Youngest just turned 16 and now I'm reentering the workforce and going back to school.
It'll be nice to have the two incomes again. We look forward to downsizing and looking for a lake house.
It'll be nice to have the two incomes again. We look forward to downsizing and looking for a lake house.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 8:52 am to genro
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And people who are miserable because they struggle to pay the bills
And most of this could be solved by simply living within your means
Posted on 1/4/17 at 9:10 am to genro
Is this the thread we add this
As much as us white males would love to bring back the 1950s, we should probably not do that.
With 2 kids so far, I am glad that both of us work and survive doing it. My opinion of children raised by stay-at-home moms is probably not like others. Those kids on average (not all) tend to be less socially skilled entering school and many times behind in the educational level. They also tend to get sick more, as daycare kids have already built up immunity to many germs.
As much as us white males would love to bring back the 1950s, we should probably not do that.
With 2 kids so far, I am glad that both of us work and survive doing it. My opinion of children raised by stay-at-home moms is probably not like others. Those kids on average (not all) tend to be less socially skilled entering school and many times behind in the educational level. They also tend to get sick more, as daycare kids have already built up immunity to many germs.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 9:33 am to genro
Money doesn't equal happiness. Your story shows that.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 9:34 am to DarthRebel
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My opinion of children raised by stay-at-home moms is probably not like others. Those kids on average (not all) tend to be less socially skilled entering school and many times behind in the educational level. They also tend to get sick more, as daycare kids have already built up immunity to many germs.
Yeah, you pulled that straight from your rump
Posted on 1/4/17 at 9:47 am to DarthRebel
I see nothing wrong with that graphic.
quote:No clue what race has to do with anything
As much as us white males would love to bring back the 1950s, we should probably not do that.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 10:01 am to genro
Excellent post
It is how we have done it our whole marriage. She is no lesser a person than me. My wife loves being able to volunteer at the schools and involved with parent groups.
There has always been little chaos living this way. For 3 years she worked in sales for her brothers company opening a new territory. She was successful but unhappy and missed picking up the kids and all the other tasks of being a mother.
She no longer is in sales for her brother and all is smooth and Happy again.
It is how we have done it our whole marriage. She is no lesser a person than me. My wife loves being able to volunteer at the schools and involved with parent groups.
There has always been little chaos living this way. For 3 years she worked in sales for her brothers company opening a new territory. She was successful but unhappy and missed picking up the kids and all the other tasks of being a mother.
She no longer is in sales for her brother and all is smooth and Happy again.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 10:07 am to DarthRebel
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My opinion of children raised by stay-at-home moms is probably not like others. Those kids on average (not all) tend to be less socially skilled entering school and many times behind in the educational level. They also tend to get sick more, as daycare kids have already built up immunity to many germs.
Lolz is all I can say. This is your opinion to make you feel better about your choice. You must feel a tinge of guilt deep inside to have that baseless opinion.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 10:29 am to RockyMtnTigerWDE
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You must feel a tinge of guilt deep inside to have that baseless opinion.
No not really, just the way it is. Stay at home parenting is not bad in any way as well. It is just not significantly better.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 10:32 am to genro
When my kids were young, I made the decision to take a job that allowed me to stay home with them while my wife worked. So, in a way, we didn't buy into the political bs that the husband should be the one that goes out while the wife stays home. We also didn't care about traditional gender roles. I did the laundry, made dinner, read books to the kids, etc. I got to spend quality time with my children that a lot fathers don't get to do and I feel very thankful to have had that opportunity. Now that my kids are older, my wife and I both work outside the home. We don't put as much value in material things as we do experiences. We work hard so that we can travel and expose our children to the natural world and other cultures.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 10:36 am to DarthRebel
quote:Solid backpedal
Stay at home parenting is not bad in any way as well.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 10:49 am to genro
The problem isn't all politics. Part of the problem is the gap gap and the decay of the middle class. My grandfather raised a family of five kids and a housewife on a house painting career. That seems crazy to a modern person. Many people need their wife to work to make ends meet that were easier to make in 1950.
Personally I have pushed for my wife to get another degree before we have kids, because I want her to have the ability to drop out of the workforce if she wants and come back maybe when the kid gets older. Daycare is expensive too.
Personally I have pushed for my wife to get another degree before we have kids, because I want her to have the ability to drop out of the workforce if she wants and come back maybe when the kid gets older. Daycare is expensive too.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 10:56 am to genro
I do know one thing: My girlfriend and I hate having all this extra money, free time and lack of responsibility. It really sucks knowing that I can call her at 11 PM and we can go to the midnight screening of any given movie of our choice.
Sure is terrible.
Sure is terrible.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:14 am to cardboardboxer
Very valid points. A man could work a regular factory job with a wife at home and live well in the middle class with a family. Now it usually takes both just to get by. Both parents working has masked our relative decrease in standard of living
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