Daycare(angry rant)

[John Adams]

This diatribe was brought to you by a posting on another forum. Since that forum is a support forum for those of us with similar medical issues I thought I would bring it over here.

A grandfather posted an email he received from his daughter. She was talking about a bully in the granddaughters daycare. In her email she complained about how she was sitting in starbucks drinking a latte (I don’t even know what that is) and she couldn’t even enjoy it because she was thinking about the bully.

She is a self-centered me oriented waste that shouldn’t have a child. She dumps the kid at daycare and goes to have a latte and complains she can’t enjoy it? WTF?? I know not everyone agrees with me but if you are going to have a child you need to raise that child! Do whatever you have to (legally) to be a parent. I am the proud husband of a stay at home mom. It isn’t easy, I don’t have a new car, we don’t go out to eat, we don’t spoil ourselves but we are there for our children. OK, so now you will probably say I am out of it, I don’t understand what it is like to raise kids in today’s economy. Well I have a 4 YO and 7YO and neither one has even been with a babysitter. Except for school for the older one my wife or I have ALWAYS been there with our kids. I don’t make a huge income but somehow we manage to get by. I see all our neighbors dumping the kids off with the grandparents or daycare and going off to work, meanwhile they have three cars for the two of them and spend money on ridiculous items like season tickets to some sports team (help me out here: they are the Georgia Dogs? What is that?). Why do you need to go to some sporting event? Take the kid to the park, you don’t have a long time before they would rather be with their friends, take advantage of the time they want to play with you. Every Thursday I go to lunch with my 7 YO and every Friday I take my 4 YO out to lunch and then to the park. Every weekend the kids pick what they want to do and we do it. Sound expensive? It doesn’t cost much to go ride bikes or take a hike. And yes, those are the type of activities they enjoy. Every night I read to my kids and my wife keeps them occupied during the day. My 7 YO is the youngest in his class (just makes the cutoff) and he is the most advanced (already finished the 3rd grade requirements ) and he is reading the books off the fourth grade reading list. Why? Because we spend time with our kids!

This justification just sickens me, “but we have to work two jobs, it’s so hard in todays economy: Bullsh.. if I can do they can certainly do it.

End Diatribe