Staying at Home with Nothing to Do

Anyone who feels that staying home with children is not a job has never done so. One toddler is enough to exhaust the most stalwart of souls but staying home with a toddler & an infant is be enough to make one recognize that life's little challenges really are little. Fortunately, being a stay-at-home-dad is primary a thankless job; it does come with the benefit of quizzical looks, rude comments, old people telling you that you are not a man, & buddies who snicker.
I thought that I took a lot of ribbing when I was teaching..."those who can do, those who cannot teach," or "you get paid alot for part-time work." Now I get the double look..."oh you stay home with the kids, how nice, what did you do before...oh...you were a teacher, how noble. Hello, have you ever tried to spend your days in a classroom? Have you ever tried to raise a child, to stimulate development & give them all of the childhood that you wanted. It's easy to look down on someone...to say "a baby just needs to be fed & changed, it easy." Anyone can comment but few can actually do.