Then, quietly — almost not believing I was saying it — I muttered: I'll give up my job and look after both of them. The decision made financial sense too. Another child in "full-time" care would reduce my monthly pay-packet to double figures and the stress wasn't worth it.
In fact, I'm not sure our marriage could have survived. My wife returned to work six months after the birth of our daughter, Eliza, last year. I remember feeling happy for her and apprehensive for myself.
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I knew it was going to be hard work; after all, that's why I had dodged bedtimes in the first place. But after the first week with my tiny wards, I realised childcare was as stressful as the job I had left behind, only now everyone thought I was unemployed. I was amazed at the brain-mushing drudgery of large parts of the day, the constant goading, chiding and tantrums. I was always exhausted, often irritable and sick of Fireman Sam.
And what of my fellow stay-at-home dads? It's believed that , men nationwide are now "home dads", a tenfold increase in as many years. But while, anecdotally, many men are choosing to get more involved in childcare — for their partners' sake and their own — the number of home dads appears to wax and wane with the economy. Professor Charlie Lewis, of Lancaster University's department of psychology, says that as far back as the s there is evidence of the number of stay-at-home dads rising when the economy crashes.
In line with this thinking, most home dads don't seem to stay at home for long — Lewis says this makes the "group" particularly hard to study — they tend to escape back to the workplace at the first opportunity. So, would I recommend what I'm doing to other parents? While I wouldn't rule out returning to paid employment in future, I am still committed to being a stay-at-home dad.
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I owe it to my wife to give her time and space for her career and I am, through careful planning and duping granny into visits, able to do some freelance work. Most of all, despite the whinges, I do love being with my children. In the short time I've been with them, I've experienced things I would have missed sitting in an office — Eliza's first word, Seth's drawing of a dog in a hat.
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