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Do your parents nor desperately desire to spend time with their grandkids? Mine (and my wife's) make drop-of-the-hat multi-day visits across state lines, often
by QuarterReptile 3y ago
Do your parents nor desperately desire to spend time with their grandkids? Mine (and my wife's) make drop-of-the-hat multi-day visits across state lines, often precipitated by nothing more than us sending a cute picture of the baby. My wife's mom is just waiting for us to send an adequate signal that she should quit working to spend more time with our kids.
- syntaxing 3y agoI think there’s a difference between need and want though. My parents would drive 8hr+ to see their grandkids for 2-3 days but my comment was more about how grandparent child care is needed in our generation.
- QuarterReptile 3y agoYou're saying that you wish there were some way that neither grandparent nor parent had to stay home with the children, other than spending a full salary on childcare, right? I guess my instinct is that all worthwhile pursuits require sacrifice and childrearing, being the most worthwhile pursuit, should reasonably take the most sacrifice. And I revel in the fact that, through decades of schooling and job experience and saving, I can keep my wife home with the kids and live in reasonable material comfort, just a little below the median income for equivalently sized households in my state.