Stay at Home Moms and Dads

If you are one of those fortunate few who get to stay home with your children because your spouse makes enough money to support your whole family, I envy you from the bottom of my heart. I hope that you get up every day and thank God in heaven that you are able to be there for your children every time they need you. You get to make their breakfast, send them off to school, make their lunches, pick them up after school, help them with their homework,volunteer for their school projects, and generally fulfil every need that they have without being pulled into 30 directions at once. If you work for Walmart, however, try to fit the desire to be there for your child around these hours: 6a.m. to 3p.m. or 2 p.m. to 11p.m. (I personally think of that as the shift from hell) or 10p.m. to 7a.m. Can one of you tell me which one of these shifts makes it possible to be involved in your child's life, and still bring home a paycheck? And if you are able to live off Walmart wages and support a family while your spouse stays home, quit reading this and write a book about it. Clearly you are a financial wizard/genius and should devote your talents to making the rest of the world a better place. I hope you share your gift with the rest of the world. Earlier, I had a conversation with an older gentleman, who thought that a mother working was because she wanted things that the husband could not provide with just one salary, and that was going to be the down fall of this society. I would suggest that this gentleman hasn't seen the price of a gallon of milk lately. Perhaps he doesn't realize that many many families don't like having two incomes they need it to pay bills. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think so. One of the complaints that Walmart gets is that it needs to pay a living wage. I would agree with that. After a time, you can make decent money with this particular company, but I don't know any family willing to live in a cardboard box until you've put in enough time to make that living wage. And now that there are salary caps on what you make for Walmart, you better start hoping that they have inflation caps, also. Or you are going to be in for a nasty shock at what you can no longer afford. You can always check the want ads for that part time job,I guess. So don't throw the paper way until you check out the classifieds. You'll thank me later.