To the previous unregistered poster - You are definitely NOT the kind of parent that we refer to here. I wish all parents could be like you!

It's the ones that work from 8-4 but have their kids at daycare from 6-6 EVERY SINGLE DAY, the ones who don't want their kids to take a nap at daycare because they want them to go to bed right after dinner, the ones that work all week and send their kids to grandmas EVERY weekend.... those are the ones that I don't understand.

I really respect working parents that miss their kids when they work and spend every possible second with them when they're not working...and they APPRECIATE that time. I'm sure it's super, super hard to leave your child in someone else's care while you work full time. I couldn't have done it.

I can totally understand THIS kind of parent needing a break once in awhile. I can't understand it in a parent who sees their kids for an hour or so a day by their own choice and then complains about that time.

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