Thanks for sharing this! I can feel the distain for Early Retirees oozing off this article... How funny.
The warning about early retirees DYING makes me chuckle.
1.) How many retirement decisions are made by health scares?
2.) If someone retired early due to poor health, it makes sense that they are inflating the whole "Early retirement leads to shorter life!" stats.
This is totally anecdotal, but I'm starting to wonder if women live so much longer than men because the stay-at-home-wife era led to less stress on women. Their husbands are long gone, but the women in my family are still kicking in their late 80's and 90's. They haven't worked since they were 25. "Early retirement" seemed to have done wonders for them!
Your family experience as a stay at home Mom must be different than mine. I go to work to escape. Staying at home is HARD.
I've done both. And right now as a working parent with two school aged kids, this stage is harder. It sucks getting two sleepy kids into the car by 7 am each morning, and it sucks not returning home until 6:30 each night. Throw in meals, homework, and baths and the evening is shot. Weekends revolve around laundry and food prep for the next week.
I'd much rather be home with my kids than working.
That's an interesting paragraph. I don't how old your kids are, buy I wonder if you could fix the morning part. Tell them the problem that you have. Get them alarm clocks, have them lay their clothes out the night before, coats and boots too.
Make it clear, they have school 5 days a week, they need to get themselves ready, 5 days a week, make it clear, it's not your job to get them ready, it's their's. They could even get in the car and wait for you! What do you have to loose if you train them that way? If they are young, now's the time to start, if they are older, they can certainly do it.
Why allow the kids to make you do all the stuff that they need to do anyway?
I make it sound easy, but in the long run, is doing what you do know, harder than
training them to do for themselves?
Or if I misinterpreted and the problem is just to much to do, sorry. Or does that have the same solution?