If you have/are planning to have children, would you be happy to give up work to care for them? Or is it important to you that you have a career? My mum had a nanny for me, but I was just wondering what other people would do.
2007-12-14 06:11:03 · 44 answers · asked by xangel123x 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
For me I'm a stay at home mom and I love it. I like spending time with them while they're this young. They grow up so fast and you can always go back to work, you children are only young once and I think it's when they're the youngest that they are the most impressionable and I'd rather be the one teaching them morals and self esteem then someone else. Once they are all in school I'll go back to work. I don't see a point in sitting around a house when nobody is there. But thats just me.
2007-12-14 06:18:27 · answer #1 · answered by Bellaboo 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am planning on trying to start a family in the new year and these are my thoughts exactly. I don't think i could stop at home all the time 24 7 it would drive me crazy. On the other hand i wouldn't want to miss all the precious moments that you would miss if you were at work. I am thinking of just going back to work part time.
I also personally think that why have children if you are going to get someone else to look after them all the time.
2007-12-14 06:17:06 · answer #2 · answered by KT 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would give up a career for the care of my children, if I had any, in a heart beat, but I would definitely miss my career. But children are much more important. Just as long as they had the support they needed, I would do anything for them.
2007-12-14 06:15:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well of course that is up to you, but I have 2 kids and I am a nurse I love working and it is a break from the kids. I stayed with my children for approx. 6 months to 1 year before work they have been in daycare. They also seem to be little more intelligent then other kids that have not because they have been around other kids and there speech was better there playing skills like sharing and socialization seem to be better then kids that were home with there moms everyday. I have always extensively looked into the daycare my children have went to they love it they make Friends and get to play etc.. Obviously you like your career and like to work so no it is not bad for you or the child your thinking of having. Only for the first year I would be concerned after that it is a learning experience for them and a break for you.
2007-12-14 06:20:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If I were able to. I would give up work to be with my children. But since I am a single mom, I must work. Maybe someday....if I meet the right man. But my child/children are more important than any job I could think of.
2007-12-14 06:15:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I worked when my kids were very small. I paid someone to play with them, dress them, feed them, put their PJs on, listen to them, show them how to behave as human beings... basically I paid someone else to parent my kids. If I could shave those years off the end of my life and do them differently over again, I'd stay home with those babies in a second.
One is 16 now, the other is almost 15, and I'm so close to seeing them start their own lives. Yet I missed out on the beginning by not staying home. A year only seems long until you measure them in someone else's birthday candles, and then you wonder how they went by so quickly.
I'd stay home, absolutely.
2007-12-14 06:17:20 · answer #6 · answered by purplesometimes 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that the career is very important to a woman... It's a part of who we are.... A different and very constructive part of our lives...Choose a job that doesn't take all your time so that you can work and also give your children all the love and care they need .. :)
2007-12-14 06:15:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'll give up my job to raise ad keep an eye at my children and know whats really going on around them than just having someone takeing care of them when thats a mothers job!
2007-12-14 06:14:56 · answer #8 · answered by . 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that is seriously a tough question for me....I love my job...as irriatating it may be sometimes..it's actually the people, not the job itself. and I'm not really the type to just sit around though caring for kids is NO sit down kinda job. the 1st couple years it might be okay since you have to care for the child 24/7...but once the kid goes to school? what am I supposed to do with myself during that time? I'd still have to be doing SOMETHING...teach 1 class a week, see only a few clients during the week, continue to do the volunteer work (I do the Meals on Wheels thing)...something.
2007-12-14 06:23:52 · answer #9 · answered by Ms. Roger Rabbit 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was a stay at home Mom, and loved it. I even home schooled for a couple of years. That's a personal decision. I happen to be a nanny for a little girl, and love my job. I take care of her as if she were my own.
2007-12-14 06:15:17 · answer #10 · answered by tictak kat 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋