Reply #12: Your co-worker is an ignorant man. [View All]

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In July of 1996, my sons were 10 weeks and 3 years old. My wife, at that time the senior vice-president of a major trade association, had to be out of town (Hell, out of the country) for most of the summer. As a teacher, I had the summer off, and spent it taking care of the kids. Don't get me wrong, I treasure the memory of those two months. But anyone who claims that stay-at-home moms (or dads) have it easy, just doesn't know what they're talking about. I have been a construction worker, a combat infantryman, a college student, and, for the last 31 years, a public school teacher; but I have never in my life worked harder than I did for those two months when it was just my boys and me.