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<blockquote data-quote="arkmark" data-source="post: 2062099" data-attributes="member: 26338">Is it really an issue of cost of living or an issue of spoiling ourselves too much?&nbsp; where things really that much different in the 40&#039;s and 50&#039;s when mom stayed home?&nbsp; A family had one car, no cable, internet, or cellphone they didn&#039;t waste money on processed food, we just came out of the depression and didn&#039;t waste anything therefore lived much more efficiently than we do today.&nbsp; You didn&#039;t have credit cards if you wanted something you saved for it, people weren&#039;t up to their eyeballs in debt, they weren&#039;t owned and enslaved to a bank.&nbsp; We&#039;ve got ourselves into quite a predicament as a consumer economy.&nbsp; My wife and I have discussed this, our oldest son is 5 and in pre-k where he and his brother go to daycare, my wires entire paycheck goes to paying the daycare and covering her and the boys health insurance.&nbsp; We are trying to find a good deal on health ins. for them and then it would be more cost effective for her to stay at home than to work.This is pretty dated info but in 2009 oklahoma spent just under $8000 per student in one fiscal year.&nbsp; So for my 2 boys if they could pay us $1300 a month for my wife to stay home and teach them.&nbsp; That would more than cover curriculum and some health ins.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="arkmark, post: 2062099, member: 26338"] Is it really an issue of cost of living or an issue of spoiling ourselves too much? where things really that much different in the 40's and 50's when mom stayed home? A family had one car, no cable, internet, or cellphone they didn't waste money on processed food, we just came out of the depression and didn't waste anything therefore lived much more efficiently than we do today. You didn't have credit cards if you wanted something you saved for it, people weren't up to their eyeballs in debt, they weren't owned and enslaved to a bank. We've got ourselves into quite a predicament as a consumer economy. My wife and I have discussed this, our oldest son is 5 and in pre-k where he and his brother go to daycare, my wires entire paycheck goes to paying the daycare and covering her and the boys health insurance. We are trying to find a good deal on health ins. for them and then it would be more cost effective for her to stay at home than to work. This is pretty dated info but in 2009 oklahoma spent just under $8000 per student in one fiscal year. So for my 2 boys if they could pay us $1300 a month for my wife to stay home and teach them. That would more than cover curriculum and some health ins. [/QUOTE]

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