hockeydad
09-25-2004, 05:41 AM
Hello,
I'm a SAHD been doing it for 4 1/2 months when our first was born. A daughter named Isabella. Found this site after checking out a few others at parenting magazines. Really they should just name them Mothering magazines cause that's all I see there. Someone gave us a subscription to one of them as a birth present - now I can coordinate my hair color to my diaper bag - very important stuff.
Glad to see there is a collection of guys out there who sahd. Sometimes I feel like the only one, at least in little old Missoula, Montana. My previous occupation was early childhood ed. a.k.a preschool. I worked at the head start in town in a variety of capacities mostly teaching and literacy for almost 4 years. My wife made more money than me as almost any spouse of someone in that field does. So it just made sense for me to stay home with Izzy. We still needed a little extra $ so I daycare for a friends 14 month old at the same time. It's been going pretty good. My experience and training working with kids definitely helped. I was able to structure my day much like I had in my classes. And I was already used to not acting like an adult while still being the adult.
But, and this is a big whooping but, I worked with preschoolers not infants. That has been quite a change. Especially since Isabella is a VERY fussy baby. She is the all time champion at screaming. And that is difficult for me. For some reason it is easier to deal with an off the wall screaming kicking punching bad mouthing 4 year old than a wiggly squiggly screaming 4 month old. But she is getting better or at least I like to delude myself into thinking. Anyways that's long enough. I have questions, worries, and good stories about this experience. Plus I want to see what other dads are doing out there so I'll be around. And I promise next time not to write so long.
hockeydad
I'm a SAHD been doing it for 4 1/2 months when our first was born. A daughter named Isabella. Found this site after checking out a few others at parenting magazines. Really they should just name them Mothering magazines cause that's all I see there. Someone gave us a subscription to one of them as a birth present - now I can coordinate my hair color to my diaper bag - very important stuff.
Glad to see there is a collection of guys out there who sahd. Sometimes I feel like the only one, at least in little old Missoula, Montana. My previous occupation was early childhood ed. a.k.a preschool. I worked at the head start in town in a variety of capacities mostly teaching and literacy for almost 4 years. My wife made more money than me as almost any spouse of someone in that field does. So it just made sense for me to stay home with Izzy. We still needed a little extra $ so I daycare for a friends 14 month old at the same time. It's been going pretty good. My experience and training working with kids definitely helped. I was able to structure my day much like I had in my classes. And I was already used to not acting like an adult while still being the adult.
But, and this is a big whooping but, I worked with preschoolers not infants. That has been quite a change. Especially since Isabella is a VERY fussy baby. She is the all time champion at screaming. And that is difficult for me. For some reason it is easier to deal with an off the wall screaming kicking punching bad mouthing 4 year old than a wiggly squiggly screaming 4 month old. But she is getting better or at least I like to delude myself into thinking. Anyways that's long enough. I have questions, worries, and good stories about this experience. Plus I want to see what other dads are doing out there so I'll be around. And I promise next time not to write so long.
hockeydad