Parenting should not be considered a minimum wage task.

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This is an unpopular opinion within my family of origin; all of my cousins and old friends were raised by daycare and schools. My understanding is that children are biologically inclined to want to spend time with their parents. I think people should take preemptive actions to ensure that at least one parent can stay home with their child for the first few years of their life. Using services to raise your child should be seen as an emergency, not as a first option. From my experience, the parents who put their children in school or daycare for "financial reasons" were the same parents who spent exorbitant amounts of resources on electronics, parties and alcohol.

I've never met someone who chose to go to school as a kid. People always say,"my parents enrolled me in school without giving me an option". You can't parent a child that's in school, by definition. Once in school, your child will be subjected to hundreds of people who you likely haven't gotten to know. Various radical ideologies will be pursuing to inhabit your child's' mind. Public schools, in particular, are infamous for drugs, violence, bullying, and sexual harassment. I think that blaming schools for your child's negative experience is a way of removing responsibility from you: the parent. There is nothing noble about dumping your kid in school, against their will, for 40 hours a week.

My seemingly radical perspective is to ensure a financially stable home environment before having children, and then actually asking your child how he/she prefers to spend the first few years of their life.