My daughter sleeps from 11-1 every day; you can set your watch by her sleep schedule. When she isn’t sleeping watching her is as easy as taking her for a walk or bringing her to see the cats. There are difficult children or children with special needs but by far staying at home is much more rewarding and less stressful than any other job.
I’m glad to stay at home and know it is the right choice for me and my family. But I will not say that it is easier than when I worked out of the home. In some ways, yes, it is easier, but in other ways it is harder. What keeps me going is knowing that I’m doing the right thing for me and my family.
The people that I know who are stressed about staying at home do it to themselves: baby gymnastics, swim lessons, piano lessons, on to soccer practice, and then a few hours of homework before bedtime. I’m not saying that staying at home will never be a grind - I’d take anything over staying home with a colicky baby - all I’m saying is that it’s not true there is never any respite. There are plenty of chances for naps, kids’ shows, play dates, or some other fourth thing. It isn’t all that bad if you don’t try to take on too much.This is hilarious. Is this a serious post? “Lay down for a nap when you want?” “Staying at home can be as easy as you want to make it?”
Ha ha ha!
Let me adjust that–“Staying at home can be as easy as your toddler allows it to be.”This is hilarious. Is this a serious post? “Lay down for a nap when you want?” “Staying at home can be as easy as you want to make it?”
Right.
There is truth to this-aside from the nap part. None of my kids ever napped. Well, my youngest does but that’s 1 out of 8. The rest quit napping between 6 and 12 months. She’s almost 3 yrs now and still naps daily.
Not to overpost, but you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Um…no.
I don’t and can’t sign up either my 2 year old or 6 month old for activities.
My hats off to all mothers here. My few episodes of babysitting toddlers opened my eyes to the challenges and the rewards. I remember toilet training a toddler and the satisfaction I felt when she was finally potty trained. I know I’m giving away my age but the toddler I babysat is now in grad school. She turned out fine.
I nearly took my oldest out for a celebration when she finally became toilet trained.
Yay!
Sounds like you have an easy kid- it’s probably not fair for you to make generalizations, then, considering that yours appears to be rather easygoing. As you can see, not all of us have children who take consistent naps or are easily entertained.
If union construction was rarely associated with higher pay, then there would not be so many non union workers hoping to get on prevailing wage union job sites where they will be required to be paid union rates. Union job sites require even non union workers to be paid union rates. That can be the difference between $10 a hour and $27 a hour or $18 a hour to $32 a hour. There would not be so many non union guys asking us “How do I go union” when we work with non union people on jobsites when they compare how much we get paid to how much they are getting paid.
Very good!
I don’t want to get too far off the subject at hand but your political view in unions differs from my own. I loathe unions. It’s called “working poor”. I could tell you stories about unions that would make you see red. They have a vested interest in providing you just enough sustenance that you will always think you need them. They prey on the idea of class warfare. Unions started as needed entities and then transformed into the work “mafia”. I fought my Union and won on several key issues. 1 the literature they put in my mail was unwelcome politically charged and frankly incindiary. 2 I fought to have my dues be given to a catholic charity of my choice. So I could physically write the check and then provide the receipt to the union.
I could care less about the political aspect of my union and I can tell you horror stories about working for non union contractors too. Bottom line for me… I get paid a lot more as a union worker, they put my through trade school which helped me and I do not pay a penny for my health insurance. Imagine how valuable free health insurance would be as a parent of multiple children. Or if it does not remain free, at least good insurance that does not suck up most my pay check. As far as pitting workers against management, my union reps have stated to us a long time ago the the days of construction union vs contractors is long gone in our area. We work WITH each other for mutual benefit instead of always trying to one up each other.
Yep. Unions have their advantages. Major advantages. But not all unions are the same. Often they all get lumped together in people’s minds.
Oh absolutely yes. I use to be a part of a non construction union in my past before I got into construction and I often said that the only thing that particular union was good for was preventing people who want to miss work every other day for no good reason from getting fired.
That wont fly in construction no matter what union you are part of. You will get a reputation as unreliable even at our union hall. Dispatch knows who is good and who is no good. Funny thing… the managements obviously were not union in that company I use to work for before I got in construction but my supervisors’ wife was a regular employee with the union while he was not. He sure did like the fact that he got to enjoy being covered by his wife’s health insurance that she got at a cheaper rate than he would have to pay I did not care about health insurance at that point in my life because it was not a law that we had to have it and I am one of those people that never gets sick and I would just try my hardest not to get hurt on the job. But now I do have health insurance because it is free through my union for me.