This was an amazing article that really does explain all the facets of how being a stay at home mum does become a necessity.
I didn’t have a career as such to return to when I had my kids however, as they got older I grew to really miss the financial independence of having a job.
The issue was the same for me in that no job was going to be so flexible as to allow for short hours so I could do the school run and give me their holidays and sick days off to care for them.