sasha asked:
If you’re a stay-at-home mom, when do you plan to go back to work? When your child starts First grade or later?
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If you’re a stay-at-home mom, when do you plan to go back to work? When your child starts First grade or later?
I went to work when he was 6 months old lol!
when i tell them too
um whenever the mother wants to, but i guess typically is maybe after 6 months. Some mothers even take a year off from work after they’ve had a baby, then go back to work
I planned on going back when my son started pre-k, but my husband and I realized that we were making it very comfortably on just his paycheck so we talked it over alot and we BOTH decided that I will stay home. He is now in second grade and I dont regret my decision at all. Just go back when you need to or want to.
Most moms i know go back to work once the children start school.
well in Australia the government is trying to get them back to work asap don’t know how it works where u r
I didn’t, they may not like the empty house, but I filled my days with volunteer work for the school and the local library. Short hours and I could quit whenever I wanted to without upsetting the budget.
but the mentality is from the 70s the old “I cannot be fulfilled without a job but its okay to dump the husband mantra”.. it a bunch of crock! I hated working, I don’t like being controlled by a company and its time clocks.
It depends on when you feel ready. I am a stay at home mom but I also have my own home business (internet business) that keeps me busy. Having a sense of purpose outside of being a mom helps me. Other moms that don’t have that may be anxious to go back to work as soon as their kids are in school, if even for a part-time job in the mornings.
It depends on our income but I really hope I can stay home until they graduate high school. Just think of the opportunity you would have to clean your house and plenty of time to make good healthy dinners. Also, we will need time to go to all the different sports and dance lessons and then there will be school plays and what not. Either I will be a stay at home mom if we can afford it or I will teach elementary school so that I can be home when my kids are home.
In canada women are granted a full year of maternity benefits so my wife spent a wonderful year at home with our baby, now she’s back at the office three days a week.
I went back 8 weeks after my cesarean:
1. because I had already used up 4 of my 12 family leave act weeks off.
2. Because my short term disability only paid for 8 weeks of post partum cesarean disability.
I regret having gone back at all. I was fired from my job a few months later.
Um, call me confused but if you are a stay-at-home mom, wouldn’t you… stay-ay-home?
Now, if you are asking “When can I go back to gainful employment without feeling guilty about it?”.
Then it is simply a matter of budgetary goals for you and your family and what level of income you are comfortable with.
stay-at-home-moms never go to work, they have enough of it at home. you must be referring to stay-at-home-moms
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When all my children start first grade, but at the rate I’m going I won’t be back to work till I’m 40!
My daughter is a stay at home mother. She plans on getting a part time job (mothers hours) this year when her son goes to first grade.
I’m a current stay at home mom. I have a daughter who is almost 6 months old. I actually plan on going back to work part-time very soon. I figured this way I can get the best of both worlds. I’ll be able to spend a resonable amount of time caring for my baby while earning an income. I’d love to wait until she starts school, but for a few minor financial reasons, I’m unable to do so.
i’m a stay at home mom and i think the biggest reason today moms go back to work is FINANCIAL……nowadays it takes two incomes to sustain most households. i have a 4 month old and a 3 year old. i would like to go back to work today if i could because i actually like to work. however my childrens well being is my priority right now. we are just taking it one day at a time and not rushing things….when the time is right, i’ll return to work.
I have a 4 year old and a 2 year old. Our county is working on getting a 4 year old kindergarden up and running. I would love to get my 4 year old in there if at all possible. If that happend, I would probably put my 2 year old in child care for a few hours a day, so I could go back to work - part time. I could also wait until both of my children are in school all day (my youngest would be in 1st grade) and then sell Real Estate ( I went to school for Real Estate 10 years ago) Right now I am a stay-at-home mom and I work on Saturdays at a consignment store.
My mother was a stay-at-home Mom for almost as long as I can remember. There are 3 of us, I’m 23 and no longer live at home, my sister is 20 and is in college, and my brother is 16 in the 10th grade. We were always in sports and other clubs, so Mom was a taxi as well. There was a time where my father got laid off at work and she had to pick up a job, but when my dad found another job a few months later, she quit. (I was 13) Those few months were really hard. I had to be the mom in the morning. Get my little brother and sister ready, and we would all walk to school together, good thing we all went to the same school. Now that the nest is close to empty, she is working part time(I guess you could say) as a real estate agent. She works on her own terms, and she is very successful with it. I am very proud of her.
I have been a stay at home Mom since my twins were born, that are now 6.
I homeschool them and my Husband and I have decided that I will probably never go back to work. We do just fine with his income and see no reason for me to not be home for our children.
***thanks for the thumbs down**** I forgot to add that my children have had 6 surgeries combined in the last yr. I have to be home with them.
when ever you are ready but i have heard in australia that mothers last child who goes to school is earged to do some thing eg: go to tafe or find work. not shore if the government has made it happen yet.
When they graduate high school. The kids always need mom there until going off to college.
Yeah, I plan on waiting until my children are in school, unless I’m needed to go back to work sooner, then I’ll just have to.
My husband and I decided that I would stay home with our children who are now fairly young. I’d always thought that there would come a day when my husband would kick me back out into the work force but he likes me being home not just for the kids but for him as well. Being with small children can be frustrating but for the most part I love it. As long as the economy holds out and I can stay home I will. My days are plenty full with laundry, dishes, church, bible study, school activities, etc. I have a sister who is home with her boys ages 16 and 13 and she is busier now with them than ever before. I don’t consider a stay at home mom to be that until after the regular maternity leave is over and then for sure until they are in school.
I have been home for 4 months and stir crazy. I had a crappy job when I was pregnant so I am looking for something more substantial. When I find what I want I will be back at work.
I think it is also good for the child to learn to interact with other children and adults. I will not be there forever. I think it is an easier transition to start school if they have already been in daycare.
In the UK, you currently get about 24 weeks standard and 24 weeks additional maternity leave - if you want to keep your job you have to go back after that. It’s changing in April but I think I may just miss out on that.
In an ideal world, we would live off my partner’s wages, but this is not an ideal world and both of us need to work to keep a roof over our heads. I have worked part-time since my son (who is now 6) was about 1, and I’ll be doing the same this time round. I think I’d go crazy as a stay-at-home mum!
Our plan is for me to stay at home until they go to school. Then I’ll get a part-time job so I can be home when they get home from school. If I do go back to work full-time it probably won’t be until they’re in high school.