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You are asking about work.

But the issue that I see here is that you are paying someone else to raise your child.

jw

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None of us could play poker when my kid is around. He distrcts too much. He demands control of every computer.
He only sleeps 9 hours a day. The most we can do is 2 hours playing time.

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No time for wild sex on a "typical day"?.

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nh. That's why I'm never going pro.

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We provide the same service that Casinos do: entertainment. That's why people play blackjack, and that's why they play poker. They play for fun.

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Sure, and they can play for fun against other people who are playing for fun, or they can play for fun against people who are constantly studying to improve at taking their money. This "we provide a service" line is pretty amusing to me. Remove all the 2+2ers from Party Poker and you'll certainly have more enjoyable and less costly games for the fish. Expert players ruin the experience just enough to make money, but not enough to scare the fish away entirely, and they use variance as a smoke screen. Let's not kid ourselves.

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Like casinos and all other service businesses, we charge for the service we provide. That service is competition, gamble, and fun. That is, competition and gamble provide the fun for the fish. Fun (i.e. entertainment) is what they are buying. The fish could easily decrease the competition in their game by dropping down a level or two. But that would decrease the gamble, too. On the whole, they would have less fun, so they stay at the higher level, where they are destined to lose over the long run. But that's ok because they are there for fun, and their loses have simply paid for their fun.

It is common knowledge that the casino has the edge in all table games. Yet millions of people play them anyway. Why? Because gambling is fun. Winning gives us a rush of euphoria. Apparently, for many people, that short-term rush is worth the long-term losses that are inevitable in those games. The same is true for the losing poker player. He is paying for that short-term rush with his long-term losses. It is his choice to do that, and there is nothing wrong with either the casino or the winning poker player charging him a fee for his fun.

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" If I said I put kid in daycare for a job, no problem."

No. You are giving up possibly the biggest joy in life. You will never get a chance to revisit this sh+tty decision 5 years from now. Dump the daycare and raise you kids. You alreadt know it's the right thing to do or you're not really a Mom.

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None of us could play poker when my kid is around. He distrcts too much. He demands control of every computer.
He only sleeps 9 hours a day. The most we can do is 2 hours playing time.

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I'm going to try and respond to the previous response to me as well as this post.

Yes, I sleep about 6hrs a night. I'm fortunate that I function pretty well with that level of sleep. I'm 32 and it affects me more now than it did 5 years ago. Not everyone can survive on 6hrs sleep (my wife definately can't). I'm not suggesting that you should get only 6hrs sleep. I am suggesting that there might be other times during the day when your husband is around to take care of your child or when your child is asleep that you could play.

I have a great deal of respect for you trying your best to save $$$ and buy a home. Its not an easy thing to do. I'm not questioning that you love your kid or that you want what's best for your child -- having enough $$$ to support a family is tough these days. I just think that taking your kid to day care every day isn't the best solution, but I'm not living in your shoes and I don't know the answer.

As for the post quoted above : if both you and your husband are home then one of you should be able to play. A 2yr old shouldn't "demand control of every computer." One of you takes care of the child, one of you closes a bedroom/office door and plays. If the child is loud, the caretaking parent can take him/her to the park or for an errand.

If you are in a situation where you HAVE to do it the way you describe then go for it and I hope you run well!

Best of Luck,
FishNChips

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None of us could play poker when my kid is around. He distrcts too much. He demands control of every computer.
He only sleeps 9 hours a day. The most we can do is 2 hours playing time.

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I think you have two choices. Either keep dropping your child off at daycare or figure out another solution.

As stated by Fish and Chips, it's much better for the child if he stays home with Mom or Dad and does not go to daycare.

In My Opinion, you are making excuses here to justify putting your only child in daycare. He will only be three ONCE. Right now, YOU are God to him. In five years he won't give you a hug and kiss in fron of his friends and in 10 years, when he's a teen, you go from being God to being an [censored].

You have a unique opportunity to stay home with your child. Hold off on the house for 18 months until he starts school and you can play poker then. Or just hold off for six to eight months and put him in pre-school for three hours a day.

When he leaves for college in 15 years will you says "I'm so glad I played poker when he was three" or "I'm so glad we sucked it up for 18 months so I could stay home with him. I'll have those memories forever"...

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No time for wild sex on a "typical day"?.

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mention of a child pretty much eliminates this option.

you kids these days are so much fun!

FishNChips

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None of us could play poker when my kid is around. He distrcts too much. He demands control of every computer.
He only sleeps 9 hours a day. The most we can do is 2 hours playing time.

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I think you have two choices. Either keep dropping your child off at daycare or figure out another solution.

As stated by Fish and Chips, it's much better for the child if he stays home with Mom or Dad and does not go to daycare.

In My Opinion, you are making excuses here to justify putting your only child in daycare. He will only be three ONCE. Right now, YOU are God to him. In five years he won't give you a hug and kiss in fron of his friends and in 10 years, when he's a teen, you go from being God to being an [censored].

You have a unique opportunity to stay home with your child. Hold off on the house for 18 months until he starts school and you can play poker then. Or just hold off for six to eight months and put him in pre-school for three hours a day.

When he leaves for college in 15 years will you says "I'm so glad I played poker when he was three" or "I'm so glad we sucked it up for 18 months so I could stay home with him. I'll have those memories forever"...

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ugh... when I read something like this it makes me realize that I'm often an overblown windbag ... HRFats has said in 3 paragraphs what I've tried to say in like 15 posts in this thread.

Spot on sir, spot on!
FishNChips