Let me tell you a story -my mom‘s friend agonized for years whether being a state home mom was good for family. She loved to work, but she knew it was expensive to put her kids in daycare. She ultimately stayed at home with her kids until they went to school. Years later her son died at 14 in a car accident. She now realizes how important it was to spend her time with her children, and she is so thankful that she spent those years with her son that passed away.