My mom is a nurse and she went back to work when I was nine weeks old and then worked for the remainder of my childhood. She had a babysitter (back then it wasn’t called a nanny) until I was about 3 and then daycare and later latch-key. By fourth grade I was allowed to come home after school alone. It taught me a lot about keeping track of my keys and how to listen for the sound of my moms car in the driveway so I wouldn’t be caught with food in the living room.
Seriously I don’t feel like I suffered any bad effect from having a mom who had a full time 40 plus hour a week job for my entire childhood. Yeah, sometimes I wished I had one of those moms who let me come home for lunch or did PTA and came in with cookies or whatever but I got over it.
I think it made me more independent.
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andreadisaster said:
I had the exact same situation growing up EXCEPT I didn’t get a key to the house until I was 12. Those last few years of afterschool care really, really sucked.
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scarletbooksandthoughts said:
totally agree. both my parents worked full-time. I live in a neighborhood where a lot of the moms are stay at home moms and they just think i can hang out whenever. I have to remind them that I have a job constantly.
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abearfoot reblogged this from bluebears and added:
Definitely made me more independent....learned that if I’m hungry,
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(THIS IS A CONTEST AND I’M WINNING IT) (jokes) but was lucky that there was a new nursery in her company’s building, so...
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Wow…it’s like someone was reading my mind.
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neroon said:
both my parents worked as well and I was a latch-key kid from a young age. I agree, it taught me independence and made me grow up faster, I have no complaints about being left on my own a lot of the time.
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All of this plus when my dad lost his job...became a drain on the family (financially,...
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pandorasmittens said:
Amen. My mother did daycare until I was in kindergarten and then worked full-time out of home from there onward. They let me stay home alone from second grade onwards, and I don’t think I would be as self-sufficient if they hadn’t of done that.
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On Working Moms BBears developed...most important skills
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dr-wtfox said:
My mom worked too. For a couple years she worked full-time from home, but for most of my childhood she had an office position. My sisters and I knew how to look after ourselves pretty early on, our parents trusted us to do so, and we turned out fine.
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queenieinmanhattan said:
Amen to all of that.
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