More and more women are out on the workforce. Their salaries are catching up to men..What if your wife made enough money to support you and your family?
We tend to confer most parental responsabilities (and priviledge) to the women, but men can make excellent parents.
The reason I am asking is because my colleague is making a really good salary and her husband was just laid off. Since her salary is enough and they have some savings, they decided he would stay at home for the next couple of years to spend more time with the children and take care of the cooking.
I am ok with the idea of the guy staying home. I just don't know how I feel about not having that option anymore to decide to be home or go work. I like to keep my options open.
I'd be happy to stay at home while the woman works. in fact, I'd be delighted. love the staying at home part... the becoming a dad/kids part not so much...
the staying at home part while she brings home the halal bacon will have to happen without the kids. now that would be heaven.
I'd be happy to stay at home while the woman works. in fact, I'd be delighted. love the staying at home part... the becoming a dad/kids part not so much...
the staying at home part while she brings home the halal bacon will have to happen without the kids. now that would be heaven.
Nowadays its very easy to run a business from home . I might start writing open source software and few paper and read a lot of books that I always wanted to read . . . but at the same time I might get fat . Ok with a gym at home , and my laptop I am willing to sacrifice my freedom
Been there, done that, loved it - would do it again!
I was stay-at-home-dad purely for the reason of being dad by choice and not by circumstances. My wife decided to go out and work during those 2 years. We decided that instead of leaving kids on the mercy of day cares, I could mange to stay at home with our (then) 2 years old girl without hitting too hard on our gross income. I loved every second of it. I regret it now that why I did not stay at home at the time of our first kid (a boy). I went through the touchable moments and have build-up memories that I would have missed by working full time.
I did everything from waking kids up, getting boy ready for school dropping him to school, cleaning up diapers of my girl, taking her to music classes, swimming classes, making breakfast, snacks, dinner etc etc. Being an IT professional, I was still able to work 2-3 hours at night once my wife is back.
PS: did I mention that those 2 years made me realize that my wife work more by staying at home than I do at work.
Hence why i’m planning to go back to Pakistan for two reasons.
I will be able to have total say in what goes on in my little part of the world :cobra: Never having to work for anyone else but having many work with me… :k:
As i’ll be home and working from home my children can grow up in my shadow and learn from my stead… i’d rather they were not ever forced away from our little valley… heaven on earth :cobra:
hubby and I have this arrangement right now. He only works in summer time because of his graduate studies. He stays home with our daughter and wakes her up, gives her a bath, breakfast, does laundary, make dinner at time :) and manages to pay bills and take care of all our phone calls etc.. I work 10 hour days, 4 days a week so he gets to go and get his school work done over the weekend and sometimes if he is overloaded I let him take wednesdays off as well. Usually we spend wednesday going out for our date night. anyways I think he has learned a lot from staying home these few months.. about the importance of being a good father and being there with her has brought them very close to each other..
GO ONNNN
. . . but at the same time I might get fat . Ok with a gym at home , and my laptop I am willing to sacrifice my freedom 
and to tell you the truth I think he’d do an awesome job too 
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