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  • When moms have the freedom

    I am so happy my husband supports my desition of staying with my child at home. I just couldn't leave him in childcare. I tried 3 different center after I actually visited like 15. It was just so devastating. I came home to cry all evening for leaving my child with who know who... We couldn't afford for me not to make money, we need my income. But ...
    Posted to Number 1 by ptiffany on May 10, 2008

  • what mommies do

    Lots of moms who have decided to stay home because they just can't leave their babies in daycare, either because they find the separation too hard or because after having to pay childcare fees and gas they don't really bring much money home, they are doing GPT sites from home. I am one of them. No, I didn't believe in those sites at first. My ...
    Posted to Moneybox by ptiffany on May 10, 2008

  • Toddler Dreader

    Wowsers, that guy who dislikes being around his 2-year-old may think he's self-interested, but he has no idea how to do it. Properly addressed, your own kids can make you feel like you have lived longer and more intensely — through co-experience. I have no younger siblings (one older sister) and had no tots around until the first of my three. I ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by mikerocom on March 20, 2008

  • More Women Driving Men?

    I've noticed this recently for some reason. Married for 16 years, when I go some place with my wife, I drive. Not out of some machismo or male domination, rather I consider it part of my responsibility as does my wife. Yet I have noticed in my suburbia of Florida- perhaps a microcosm of all Suburbia America given that Target, Walmart, 7-11, ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by Usama2 on December 17, 2007