I want to applaud my mom and all the other families with a parent who stayed home with their children, at least until the kids are in first grade. Not the parents who stay home and still don’t raise their kids, I mean the ones whose job is raising their children and meeting their children’s needs everyday, rather than letting another mom or daycare strangers raise your children and while you spend one hour in the evenings and maybe a few hours on the weekend in-between birthday parties, play-dates all the things that keep the parent from spending one on one time with their kids, real time. Not time near the child, but time with the child. Your kids don’t care about the two new vehicles, expensive home, the insane $20-30,000 wedding (over in one day), or toys enough to fill three bedrooms. Its you who needs the money, not them. What they want is you.