both parents work, kids with inlaws?

Sara516 · June 30, 2010, 5:54pm

Okay Nadz… let me tell you my story… I currently work full-time and I have a 4 year old. I’m also pregnant right now… I started working when my daughter was 8 months old, since my husband had a really crappy job and we hated raising our daughter in a crappy $500 rent wala apartment in Flordia which we had to share with cockroaches & bugs (I shudder when I think of that) and mexican laborers living downstairs who drank beer every single night, we couldn’t afford anything else so I started working and sent her to a daycare.

Alhamdulillah, I got a great job offer… was earning more than my husband, we moved to a better apartment, after a few months husband got a better job offer so he could quit his crappy one, daughter was happy at daycare so I didn’t quit… we saved up and then we moved to Virginia and now MashaAllah my husband is making double what I make and we have our own house and a good life we can give to our kids. Now, InshaAllah I’m going to quit when my second one arrives (although my mom doesn’t want me to) and will go back to work when he/she’s old enough to go to daycare/preschool.

I have mashaAllah had a good experience working and raising my child, she has better manners than a lot of kids I know, is very naughty also and mashAllah is very smart and can even read at this age all by herself (I taught her how to, no daycare/preschool involvement in that… they were amazed when they saw her reading). And my daughter is happier going to school as opposed to staying home, the days I work from home… she makes me drop her to school since she says she’s bored at home all by herself and needs to play with her friends.

Well now see you should have let her become friends with those roaches and bugs.