When my son discovered that stay-at-home moms exist
Like many working parents, I spent the months before my baby?s birth agonizing over what I would do for childcare. There was no doubt in my mind?or my bank account?that I would return to the office when my maternity leave ended after only seven short weeks. (Sadly, as an American, that is a generous amount of time since many women in the United States return to work in less than half of that.) But I still worried about finding a childcare situation where my son would feel safe and loved and be shown the tenderness and attention I knew he would need to grow and learn.
After he was born, we scrambled to find a nanny. When he was less than two months old, I dropped him off?with tears in my eyes?for his first full day without me.
Over the next few years, my son achieved all of his big milestones?crawling, walking and talking?under the kind and watchful eye of his loving nanny. At two, when his baby brother arrived, he moved on to full-time preschool. Since then, my son?s days at preschool have been packed with fun and learning. He has made new friends and begun to understand that other children and families live differently than we do.
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