stay-at-home parents

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Hi guys so I’m currently a SAHM with a 7 1/2 month old. I’m so lucky to be able to spend my days with my baby boy but it’s been harder than I expected and I feel guilty for feeling sad. Daycare was not an option as we couldn’t even find a daycare for him, and it would have taken both my checks...

My husband works a lot. A lot, a lot. I used to be a teacher. He used to be Active Duty military and we moved constantly. My career could not keep up. He suggested I stay at home. When our eldest was a few months old, I became a SAHM. Earlier this year, he made the switch to Reserves and started...

Let’s pretend you are a SAHP to a 2 year old with plans for several more children, and you had the choice of two houses: House A- very desirable neighborhood. Excellent school system. Wonderful walkability, would walk to parks, shops, ice cream, etc. Neighbors consist of young families with...

Here’s how burned out I am: two week vacation with my wife and three small kids, wife working part of the time on half the vacation, middle of vacation was split up with a one overnight trip back home, left vacation last night and spent the night on the way home. When we arrived at our stopover...

My 3 year old has been sick for 2 weeks. Was sick, got better for a day and then caught something else. Took her to the dr on Monday, 2 hours of driving to get X-rays and tests and everything came back negative. Told us to come back Wednesday if she was still sick. Spoiler alert she was. Said it...

I would like to work on my yelling. I often get complimented by family how patient I am, and although it’s true, it’s like once my patience is gone I automatically go to yelling. Kinda like 0 to 85, if that makes sense. I am noticing I am more prone to yell toward the end of the day (naturally...

MY LO is currently a little over two and a half and we are planning more in the near future. While this is going on, I've slowly realized that I still despise dropping LO off with someone else every morning, going to a job I hate, then going just to have him call me Miss (Teacher's Name). I hate...

Other than daily walks and trips to the farmers market (we love cooking w/ fresh produce and I don’t mind grocery shopping multiple time per week since it’s close to home), I’ve also found a free mommy & me yoga class on Friday’s and a free storytime at our local library. What other ideas...

Stay-at-home-parents, what is your actual child-care duty split during "off-hours", and are you happy about it? What do you wish you could change? I recently transitioned into the SAHM role with one child in K. My SO, who works regularly 50 hr/w, wants "flexible" support at home - i.e. he is...

I just realized that the majority of conversations I hold are always focused on others. Like whenever I’m having a casual conversation with my husband it switches between being about him (career, work day stress, hobbies, goals, future plans, etc) and being about the kids (what they did, new...