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@rainbow35 Yeah I just left a full professorship in chemistry. This is so much harder.

@lizzieb90 I am not sending mine. I don't see a need for it, he has friends he socializes with and family members that watch him sometimes for independence from us. I teach him everything he needs to know. I plan to homeschool long term though, if I weren't homeschooling I'd want him to...

@dmhanson511 Mine was and is still like this. He has about 8 very healthy and balanced meals and that's all he will eat. I've tried everything. All the stuff everyone recommends. I had fed him a variety, I did all the "right " things. He's FOUR and still is like this ha. My second eats...

@nevadabest I think it's the best case scenario, yeah, but I don't like to say they'll be better than the kids in daycare since a good chunk of kids are. I think there's advantages and disadvantages. I think kids in daycare for example talk more quickly and pick up a lot from seeing other kids...

@seanjm Yeah that's a good point, I've never heard anyone say "I really feel daycare at 2 shaped me as the adult I am today" haha

@daryle I'm sick of the comments and posts by SAHP asking if they should send their kids to daycare because they're missing out. Like we are selfish to keep our kids home. There's advantages to daycare just like anything, but there's no better place for a young kid than home with a SAHP. Let's...

@hew0007 A lot of factors affected my decision. I was tenured and it was a considerable amount of work, we were doing wfh during the pandemic and I was still having difficulty doing everything. I've got two kids, a 4 and 2 yo and I was pulling 20 hr days sometimes. My husband makes an income we...

@hew0007 Well I was a professor , and left. It is tough to leave the field and I think of it every day. Do I regret it? Nope. But it is hard.

@oddduck123 I still struggle with losing my professional identity, ngl. Volunteering and tutoring helps a bit. If people ask me what I do, I usually say I was a professor but am a SAHP now. So I can't seem to drop my old career title ha.

@oddduck123 35 and left a professorship for SAHP. I have a PhD in STEM, was a successful professor and scientist, I was a workaholic overachiever who completely identified myself by my career. SAHP for 3 years, I'd never go back. I am so lucky I can always be there for my kids, they have such...

@drdeck Right? I'm a professor and some of the pressure I see on students to become the next doctor when they would have been way happier in a trade is immense. Find something that you love or can put up with to pay the bills, or literally any job so you can pay rent, and be open to change if...

@regret_living How do you respond when she does this stuff? When my 2 yo is not nice to the baby, I say this is how we treat a baby and show him. If he swats or whatever I take his hand and say "be gentle" and show him how to gently rub the baby's head. If he grabs a toy, I take the toy and say...