Stay-at-home parents vs jobs

[scottish]

Lol have some of you people answering ever been around a young child? It is really hard and quite tiring

i know I would prefer to stay at home with my children over work, and I believe work would be draining aswell as the idea of missing a full day with my kids but it's no walk in the park to be a stay at home mum

anyway me and my bf already decided if we have kids he'll be the one staying at home!!

yeah but you'd need childcare too so he can focus on his games.

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yeah but you'd need childcare too so he can focus on his games.

id need childcare for our kids and you since you need babied all the time haha x

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Depends on the job. Don't find my job v stressful at all, I enjoy it and have energy when I get home to do things. I imagine being a stay at home mum would be a lot more work and you get adult conversation at least going to work too.

[Catchy]

I think both have it's own challenges and stresses really, personally I'd probably PREFER going out to work as a break. Can you imagine being with children day in day out without a break? Not for me thank you very much, think I'd go insane.

[RuthOnToast]

You can't just say ones harder than the other because it all depends on the circumstances. My mum has been a stay at home mum for all 3 of us and also done abit of stay at home granny. She was 19 when she had my sister and at the time my dad had a job until her got made redundant. But when i came 16 years later i didnt make it easy for my mum to get a job. She didnt get a break 8-3 no it was 24/7 job. Most days school would either send me home for a few days or sometimes just for a few hours. So how is she meant to have a job when i was often excluded? Does she get a break at night? no i wouldn't sleep in my own room till i was 10 and tbh i just wouldn't sleep.

Enough of that my point is just because they dont go out to work doesnt mean they have a easy time because you don't know what they have to deal with. And tbh yh some stay at home mums will have it easy and generally just lazy.

It also depends on what job you have and how much you enjoy it. You might have a really good job you love doing that maybe only be down the road. Or you could have a really shit stressful job.