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@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...