Stay At Home DAD

[TTLauPeh]

I'm a WAHD (Work At Home Dad). Run my little Lone Ranger business from home. We don't have a maid and my wife travels a fair bit so I'm the sole caregiver sometimes. Drops him and wife off at work, school, skating lessons, etc and tries to do my share of housework -- and my own work -- before wifey gets back from work so we can spend more time together as a family in the evening.


School is a short bus ride away so when I have meeting with clients, my kid makes his own way home (and them SMSs me). Just asked him how he feels about me taking a regular salaried job next year since he'll be starting secondary school next year and he said he'd rather I continue to work from home. Will miss having him as my lunch kaki and makan place explorer

[3Boys]

My long term plan is to be a SAHD…play chess and tennis with the boys, tend to the garden, paint walls, lacquer furniture, yeah, sound like fun (really!).

[smurf]

TTLauPeh:

I'm a WAHD (Work At Home Dad). Run my little Lone Ranger business from home. We don't have a maid and my wife travels a fair bit so I'm the sole caregiver sometimes. Drops him and wife off at work, school, skating lessons, etc and tries to do my share of housework -- and my own work -- before wifey gets back from work so we can spend more time together as a family in the evening.


School is a short bus ride away so when I have meeting with clients, my kid makes his own way home (and them SMSs me). Just asked him how he feels about me taking a regular salaried job next year since he'll be starting secondary school next year and he said he'd rather I continue to work from home. Will miss having him as my lunch kaki and makan place explorer

you are a wonderful husband and dad. :udaman:

[kiasimom]

I am not in favour of DH being a SAHD.

He is much fussier than I am.
He is much stricter than me, more organised ( he does all the groceries shopping ) etc etc
He is a better housekeeper than me. He knows every corners of the house...
But he being a perfectionist will also mean my maid and children will suffer as he will always be telling them, \" Why are you doing this and not that?\" blah blah blah...
So I will still prefer him to work and I will gladly miss the presence of him while he is at work

[peapot]

Smurf, I like your emoticon. So appropriate!


My DH don’t mind being a SAHD but unfortunately he earns more than me so whoever earns more should get his butt out there and bring in the dough. However, I don’t mind staying at home myself. Beats getting into office politics and meeting boot-licking people.

[tankee]

TTLauPeh:

I'm a WAHD (Work At Home Dad). Run my little Lone Ranger business from home. We don't have a maid and my wife travels a fair bit so I'm the sole caregiver sometimes. Drops him and wife off at work, school, skating lessons, etc and tries to do my share of housework -- and my own work -- before wifey gets back from work so we can spend more time together as a family in the evening.


School is a short bus ride away so when I have meeting with clients, my kid makes his own way home (and them SMSs me). Just asked him how he feels about me taking a regular salaried job next year since he'll be starting secondary school next year and he said he'd rather I continue to work from home. Will miss having him as my lunch kaki and makan place explorer

:celebrate: :udaman:

[mrswongtuition]

I’m pleased to annouce (after 1 week) that my hb is not cut out to be a SAHD. I had to pick up after him like he’s the kid and not my boy!

[SBKS]

sorry for digging up the thread…


but are there more SAHD or WAHD that can comment on the lifestyle he is in right now and are things the same as what you expected before becoming SAHD or WAHD?

trying to explore this option right now?

given the current society, its difficult to change the mindset of man working and woman staying at home.
and also i believed that given a fair comparison where same industry, similar scope of work, same age, the women will still have higher pay than men due to women coming out to work earlier than men who are serving NS.
that is to assume that nothing wrong or bad comes along at work to the 2 on the above example. I am not in that example as my career took ahit. Instead of 2yrs experience, my wife gt 4.5yrs more experience than me. so as mentioned in prev posts, i should be the one staying at home to be practical.

So for wat I foresee for me becoming a SAHD, I think I might get bored soon doing all these stuff over and over again. Any SAHD can help to determine if its true?

any other things that I need to prep myself if i were to be SAHD?

[pirate]

SBKS:

any other things that I need to prep myself if i were to be SAHD?

You don't get maintenance (aka as alimony) on a divorce. It's called the Women's Charter.

Choi choi choi! Dai kat lei si! :siam:

[sharonkhoo]

SBKS:

So for wat I foresee for me becoming a SAHD, I think I might get bored soon doing all these stuff over and over again. Any SAHD can help to determine if its true?


any other things that I need to prep myself if i were to be SAHD?

I think all SAHP get bored! And FTWP also get bored doing housework after returning home. So that is not really an issue at all - it just has be done, and someone has to do it.

I think the main thing you have ask yourself is whether your ego and self-esteem can take the comments you will get from family, friends and complete strangers. It was bad enough for me when I became a SAHM (shock and horror that I was 'wasting' my education, doing 'maid's work', reducing the family income, etc etc), and I'm sure it will be worse for you. My husband has told me frankly that he could never do it. I would say that it may be crucial for you to have some kind of paid employment or income even while you are a SAHD just so you can say that you are a part-time or freelance something. Just my thoughts.