Today's poll asks: Are you a stay at home mom (or dad)? Post your answer below.
Poll: Stay At Home Parents
Are you a stay at home mom (or dad)?
Yes (90)
No (83)
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I have been one for five years in July (I resigned full time "work" just before the birth of my first son) and I never regret it, no matter how "crazy" things may get! I have two little boys, so to go back to work it would never be lucrative due to childcare and buying/upkeep on a second car. I take online classes to finish my degree, but I love being a fulltime part of their lives at this most critical time.
I guess I could be considered a stay at home mom...I closed my store and raised the kids, then 'retired' to the country due to my husband's environmental illnesses. Here I decided to re open the business. I work from home and my children, all teens are home schooled. (eldest heading to college in Fall)
I will never regret taking the time off to raise and home school my kids. I get compliments on them all the time. They are GOOD kids. :)
I have been a stay at home Mom since our youngest was 4 and am not happy doing it! Don't get me wrong I love my kids ( three of them) but I loved working. I (in the mean time) have suffered a dibilitating disease that doesn't allow me to do much of anything (including playing with the kids). I have degenerative disc disease in 4 discs and 3 disks that are gone. I also have arthritis is my knees and back....which cause me to swell in both areas and make movement impossible sometimes. I also have osteoperosis, which is just making me shorter. I am always on pills that exclude me from driving (Morphine, percocet, valuim, etc...) so I can't even go anywhere anymore. I am almost done with my AA degree (my school has allowed me to do all of my classes online and some teachers have even stopped by to pick up homework). I hope I can continue to get my BA, just so I can say I have done something. I know my kids love me with all of their hearts, but I wish I could be the parent I want to be. The one I used to be. The one that played baseball, and did gymnastics with the girls. This is not a poor-poor-pitiful me post...it is a "I want to be better" post.
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