I became a stay at home parent and we’ve been able to reclaim our weekends. 90% of the cleaning gets done during the week, so we have time to actually do things as a family. It also gets easier as they get older. Physically anyway. Just hang in there.
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I hate how this got so shittted on and now nobody even makes enough money for it anyway.
It is not fair that both people need to work when kid is tiny. Kid needs a parent around at that stage but we don't support parents in this country in fact we like to fuck them
I know a number of families with one parent working. They just chose differently. They don't have a massive, expensive house, they don't vacation in Disney, they don't have brand new cars, nor expensive cars, the kids don't have the coolest gadgets, etc, etc.
They just chose differently than other people.
I have a 4 day work week, at some point I tried a 5 day work week, within a year I was depressed and gladly accepted a 20% paycut to got back to 4 days
Yea, I think there's likely something that objectively makes sense to the 4 day work week. If you want actual time off that feels like it's yours ... 3 days feels like a bit of a minimum ... that middle day with a buffer either side feels like it's untethered to the work-week, something that 2 day weekend does not give you at all.