[quote]Rocky101 wrote:
I’ll hunt, fish , play guitar , lift and …[/quote]
Getting out and doing a bunch of stuff I love with my kids is how I always envisioned it. But, as a father now, I can be pretty shocked at how quickly my five year old son will get tired of doing some activities that I love.
This winter we would go skiing (me on a board) once a week. After nearly a two hour drive up and looking foreword to the same back, he wants to leave after only 3-4 runs. After 4 or 5 trips he starts wanting to go only every other week or so.
It goes the other way, too. While I can wrestle with him or climb trees in the back yard all day, playing his spaceship games or other fantasy games can get old pretty quick.
I still think being a stay at home dad would be great but it would definitely be challenging.
[quote]Rocky101 wrote:
Yep all that estrogen made me gain 17 lbs of muscle last year. Most guys couldn’t handle being a stay at home dad and when I tell them that I am, they get jealous as hell. So go to work and bend over for your bosses everyday and be part of the corporate grinder, I’ll hunt, fish , play guitar , lift and bang my lady everyday stress free. Yep and my wife does think I am the best thing and so do all the women she works with.
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In theory, that is what it would be like. Reality is entirely different.
[quote]rainjack wrote:
The argument could be made that, if you have a boss, you are traveling the same estrogen-superhighway as a Mr. Mom.
I would never work for anyone again. I have done that, and have quit every job in which someone besides myself signed the paycheck.
Going on 10 years of me being my boss, and I have made more money in each successive year.
Even better than being my own boss is that I am a defacto stay-at-home dad because I set my own work hours, and am at home with the kids way more than most people.
Point being - if you are an employee, you sell your nuts to your boss in exchange for a paycheck.
If you are going to accuse a stay at home dad of being a nutless wonder, the only difference between you and him is the the FMV of your nuts.
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I was going to say something similar - you beat me to it.
[quote]CaliforniaLaw wrote:
Rocky101 wrote:
Yep all that estrogen made me gain 17 lbs of muscle last year. Most guys couldn’t handle being a stay at home dad and when I tell them that I am, they get jealous as hell. So go to work and bend over for your bosses everyday and be part of the corporate grinder, I’ll hunt, fish , play guitar , lift and bang my lady everyday stress free. Yep and my wife does think I am the best thing and so do all the women she works with.
In theory, that is what it would be like. Reality is entirely different. [/quote]
It all depends on your “reality.” You’re basing your opinion on the experience of one friend.
I have the best of both worlds in that I work from home, so I can be there for my kid. I can think of few things more important than taking care of your child.
I bet the guys who think it’s all Xbox and snowboarding, or who think it’s not much of an “achievement,” don’t have kids. It’s what you make of it. If you sit around on the couch playing video games and watching TV, you will have fact, lazy, stupid kids. At that point, you should be gelded because you don’t deserve a pair, and your wife should control you because obviously you can’t control yourself.
PeteDaCook is pathological.
NeoSpartan is living in some kind of really bad Cuban soap opera.
I wouldnt be able to do it full time. I would feel like I have wasted 8 years of MD/PhD training (I’m in my 6th year of med school with 2 to go!)besides I like surgery too much, couldnt stay away for too long. But the time for training would be great!
A point someone brought up to me,
Being a stay at home dad is akin to being a pimp, as a pimp makes his money and way of life from women.
I don’t completly agree with it but thought it was an interesting thought.
Not to want to sound particularly sexist or anything but I think in a way i’d feel it was a waste. Im all for spending quality time with my kids and ofcourse partaking in all forms of chores etc but it wouldnt feel “right” to be at home 100% of the time.
Perhaps its instinctive but I would go crazy if i was at home! maybe it’s the eternal quest for power and appraisal that requires me to want to have a good job and feel that i^m “providing” for my family…