I'm with you 100% too. I don't like the idea of other people raising my children. When I was a baby/toddler, my mom stayed home with me, even though at the time my dad was sick and unable to work. But it was important to her to be there and I appreciate it. After I got in school, she went and worked part time too.
I haven't been in the situation (well, my dad deep down thinks I'm wasting my life by only working part time now so I'd hate to see what he thought if I were married with children), but I'd just try to explain to her how much it means to you to be there for your kids and how much you really don't care about money.
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