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I seem to remember writing about my wife being a Stay At Home Mom, yet she is never home during the day.

But I digress.  Here is the deal. If a mother is the money earner and the father is staying home with the children, I don’t really have a problem with it, but it would be nice if Daddy-O would start a business that would enable his wife to quit her job so that she can enjoy the beauty and fun of raising her children.

Don’t you think that two parents at home raising their children is better than 1 (or none)?

How do we solve this problem?

Start a business of your own and then teach everything you know about the business to your son. Let’s make sure that this trend stops with us.

From the Seattle Times:

American men in their 30s today are worse off than their fathers’
generation, a reversal from a decade ago, when sons generally were
better off than their fathers, a new study finds.

The study also says the typical American family’s income has lagged
far behind productivity growth since 2000, a departure from most of the
post-World War II period.

The findings suggest “the up escalator that has historically ensured
that each generation would do better than the last may not be working
very well,” says the study, released Friday.

Irish rock star Bono on Friday launched the U.S. version of his “Red” campaign that turns shopping into a funding stream to fight AIDS in Africa.

The program — the brainchild of the U2 singer and Bobby Shriver, nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy — encourages shoppers to buy Red-branded goods, while manufacturers pledge to channel a portion of the profits to AIDS programs financed by the U.N.-backed Global Fund.

Bono launches campaign to fight AIDS in Africa – Celebrity News – MSNBC.com

Then I remembered that I had an opportunity to write a blog post about PersonalHomeLoanMortgages.com so I visited the site and checked it out.

I found out that the monthly payment for a $6 Million home would be about $35,000 – $40,000 a month give or take and I figure it would take an income of roughly $100,000 a month to justify such a home.

They don’t call it the Street of Dreams for nuthin’

There was a time when children hardly saw their fathers during the day, because they were away at work. However, in our ever-changing culture, the family dynamic has become, well, dynamic.

Today, there is a growing trend of fathers moving their jobs out of the office and back into their homes so they can be close to their kids. Too hard to resistToddler Gracie Ogabe is hard to resist and her father just couldn’t.When she was born, Emmanuel Ogabe, an international attorney with ties to the White House, downsized his practice, so he could stay home with his kids, 5-year-old Jonathan and little Gracie."It’s the father daughter thing. I wanted to be around to protect her as soon as I could," says Emmanuel.

Now, he’s feeding Gracie with one hand, checking emails with the other and answering the pink, Mary Kay phone provided by his wife.

Life is good.

…Both men have wives with full time jobs. They admit that enables them to work from home.

WNDU-TV: 16 Moms Story: Stay at home dads: a new trend? – April 17, 2006

Here is a snip from a wonderful post at QuixtarBlog titled, Joe Trippi Gets It:

The primary message of Trippi’s essay is that the Internet (and specifically bloggers) is disrupting the status quo, in both politics and information distribution, while putting more power into the hands of the people. This is a message that many of the existing power brokers (Global PACs, Mega-Corps, Big Media, etc.) have trouble comprehending.

The post continues:

But how are the power brokers dealing with these networked conversations? Unfortunately, most are still trying (desperately) to manage, control and direct the conversations instead of simply participating. Such efforts have given birth to the corporate blog, the “trendy” email newsletter and discussion board marketing which all still work to control (or at least influence) the conversations.

Trippi (who managed Howard Dean’s presidential campaign) decided to join the conversations as a participant. He genuinely embraced the “market of opinion” instead of trying to control it and you know what? It worked. He understood that a successful conversation combines speaking with listening. He “gets it.” Do you get it? Does your business?

The QuixtarBlog usually tackles information on Quixtar and occasionally Network Marketing. The recent post is worth your time even if you have no interest in Quixtar or Network Marketing.

If you can dream it, you can do it! Young Americans believe that independent business ownership is a vital key to their present and future economic growth. The Office of Business and Community Initiatives, within the Office of Entrepreneurial Development, has designed this website to introduce teenagers to the concept of small business ownership as a viable career choice by helping you shape your dreams of entrepreneurship and making them come true.

Thanks to: The Entrepreneurial Mind

Hire this eleven year old spokes-model and start a modest apparel clothing brand. You might even call the brand….Modest.

Ella Gunderson became frustrated trying to find something fashionable — yet modest — in a world where she seems to be surrounded by low-riding jeans and tight, revealing tops. So she penned a letter.

“Dear Nordstrom,” she wrote. “I am an eleven-year-old girl who has tried shopping at your store for clothes (in particular jeans), but all of them ride way under my hips, and the next size up is too big and falls down.

“I see all of these girls who walk around with pants that show their belly button and underwear,” she wrote. “Your clearks sugjest that there is only one look. If that is true, then girls are suppost to walk around half naked. I think that you should change that.” (sic)

Work At Home Dad has a soon to be 7 year old daughter, so when you make your millions on this idea…a free outfit would be nice.

Mahalo!

WAHD

The Seattle Times article.