You need to always keep in mind the blessings you receive on a daily basis, and consider yourself very lucky. If you think day care work is rough, try running a dairy farm - talk about smelly, exhausting work, and milking twice a day certainly is no treat, especially in the pre-dawn hours.

hey cult-boy: only a miscreant misanthrope would find farm animals worthy of the same esteem and care as human beings.

Most farm animals are more polite, good natured and civilized than human beings. You're living proof.

There is no comparing taking care of farm animals to caring for other's people children day in and day out. That's like comparing fruits and veges. Yes, they both require care but need it differently for them to flourish.

The only way you can judge and have perspective is if you have ever done it yourself. Yes, I have milked cows and Yes I have taken care of other's people's children.

I have to call bull on your reply. Both my husband and myself not only work in childcare but also live on and operate a farm full time as well. There is no comparison. Childcare is much harder, more demanding, much less pay (we really count on the farm to bring in added income as opposed to childcare supplimenting our farm income), and we spend way more time caring for other's children than it takes to care for animals, crops, and cutting/bailing hay. Until you have really tried both please do not bother comparing the two.

Isn't the "informed opinion" a thing of beauty, messyOne?

OR should I call you by an alias, say, 'the unibomber we haven't heard about yet'?