I believe this may be contraversal, but I am willing to hear your say on this. This article says there is no way to go back to one parent staying home. I stay home and yes I am broke most of the time, but I think it's worth it to be with my kids. There are so many things that I leave behind to do so. All of this talk about how great it is for a mother or father to let their child be with another person for huge amounts of money is just crazy to me. I do in home daycare, charge $500.00 a month, for many that is a lot, to some that is a fracton of what they pay a month. A few of the kids I watch are here from 8:30 to 6:30, that is ten hours a day, and that's not including the half hour that it takes to get here and to get home. So, that is 11 hours a day that that child is away from home. Wow, I say, I guess that just really makes me sad. Sorry if I offend anyone. Hugs to all the kids and their parents!


The child-care crisis - MSN Money

spitvenom

My dad always worked and my mom stayed home with us until I was in second grade and then i became a latch key kid. I mean she really had no choice and didn't want to but she had to do what she needed to do to keep a roof over our heads. I am very very happy she did decide to go back to work. Me being home with just my sister made me learn responsibility at a very young age.

I mean obviously not when I was in second grade but as I got older i learned to cook for myself do my own laundry and clean the house. She never asked me to do these things but I was hungry and had dirty clothes. I asked her to show me once and I learned very quickly. needless to say she was very nervous about me using the stove. But I never burned the house down.

My GF today is very happy about it cause she never has to yell at me to do the laundry once in a while or say how about you cook for once. Or do the dishes ok we do argue about doing the dishes I really hate doing them!!!!!!

Sometimes I look at kids today and just think how easy they have it and how spoiled they are. I know a 10 year old who doesn't even know how to cut his own food yet. It's a shame!!!!

kewlkat

I use to work and my house was doing mad... I finnally staied home and my kid's grades went up and my daughter is now ready for kindergarden...... I find that staying home is better for the house hold because if it wasn't for the mothers I swear there would no be a house standing

twinkiedooter

I stayed home with my son and did not work. We learned to eat spaghetti almost every night as well as turkey soup and somehow we made it. Every time I would get a temp job and put him in a day care he would come home with whatever crud was going around and both my husband and I would get raging ill for a week or more. Any money that I was ahead by working was sucked away by missing work and dr bills. My mother kept him starting at age 3. She took him to the library to learn the love of books first hand. She would read to him and teach him things first hand. They would go on field trips all over the city. She didn't just sit at home with him. He always was a well behaved child with excellent manners courtesy of granny. I for one did not like the fact at day care he was kept in a room with a lot of kids who liked to bash on him (I saw this for myself when I took him early and watched this activity and saw the attendant do nothing to stop or prevent it). I don't think that daycare is for everyone.