I keep commenting because I feel very strongly about this, too. I'm so full of this "stay at home parenting as vacation" bullshit, particularly when it's proven to be no such thing to me. From a sanity and energy perspective, I would've found going back to work when my spawn was a wee baby much easier than I did find staying at home, but stay at home I did because the idea of putting a small breastfeeding baby into daycare when we didn't need to do any such thing was distasteful to me. (Well, that and the fact we do get 12 months of paid parental leave.)
Amusingly enough we're both doing unpaid work right now in an attempt to get our startup up and running, but neither of us thought of the traditional type of unpaid at-home work as worthless or as some type of a holiday because we're fully cognizant that newborns are intense and needy, that childcare costs and arm and a leg, and that you'll pay the same again for the other necessary props needed for both parents to have full time careers here. Not worth the hassle. And that's without getting to the fact that NOT EVERYTHING HAS MONETARY VALUE. Uuuuuuunfffff hrrrrrrgh wsfgh khhhhhhk.
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Amusingly enough we're both doing unpaid work right now in an attempt to get our startup up and running, but neither of us thought of the traditional type of unpaid at-home work as worthless or as some type of a holiday because we're fully cognizant that newborns are intense and needy, that childcare costs and arm and a leg, and that you'll pay the same again for the other necessary props needed for both parents to have full time careers here. Not worth the hassle. And that's without getting to the fact that NOT EVERYTHING HAS MONETARY VALUE. Uuuuuuunfffff hrrrrrrgh wsfgh khhhhhhk.