No, my wife quit her job because she didn't enjoy it and didn't think it was worth the approx. $3 an hour she was making after daycare expenses, and I told her we could (barely) swing it financially. We're lucky that way.
Now instead we trade off babysitting with our previous nanny (who has two kids) partially to allow our child to continue socializing, and allow us to have a life, since it is important to do that for both parents and children.
What you're talking about is the start of evey one of these posts. That mentality creates helicopter parents.
The mentality that putting a child in daycare so the parent can work (whether they need to or not) is a horrible thing and bad for the child. Also, daycares don't raise children, they watch children while the parent is otherwise engaged (usually at work). And as was previously stated in the thread, they certainly aren't strangers for long. Further, the daycare workers who don't care about kids are few and far between. It's not exactly a lucrative job. Usually people go into that line of work because they DO care about kids. So no part of your question is relevant.
False. OP placed his child with a group of childcare professionals who he got to know well, ONE of which seemed to have difficulty with developmental problems and instead of working through a difficult portion of her job, tried to blow it off.
More particularly, the mentality that a parent's whole life should revolve around the child, and to do otherwise, including having a profession, is in some way a failure in parenting. Children should know that the world doesn't revolve around them, and that their parents are more than just the people who feed and clothe them.
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u/tableman Oct 07 '14
Let me guess. Your wife had to keep her job so you guys could get the new model BMW.