We shouldn’t have to say we’re staying home for children’s optimal development, or at least, that shouldn’t be the only factor in the decision. I’m well aware that many people don’t want to be an economist for eight hours a day. Just like it should be okay to say that you stay home with your kids because that is what you want to do. The eighth hour at my job is better than the fifth hour with the kids on a typical day. The physical and emotional challenges of work pale in comparison to the physical and emotional challenges of being an on-scene parent. Yes, the eighth hour is less fun than the seventh, but the highs are not as high and the lows are not as low. The first hour with them is amazing, the second less good, and by hour four I’m ready for a glass of wine or, even better, some time with my research. In part, this is because kids are exhausting. But the “marginal value” of time with my kids declines fast. It isn’t that I like my job more than my kids overall-if I had to pick, the kids would win every time.
I’ve figured out that my happiness-maximizing allocation is something like eight hours of work and three hours of kids a day. But I wouldn’t be happy staying home with them. Having the numbers is a tremendous relief – and so is the occasional glass of wine.“I’ll say it: I am lucky enough to not have to work, in the sense that Jesse and I could change how we organize our life to live on one income. Knowing that the health of your baby is paramount, readers can know more and worry less. Oster offers the real-world advice one would never get at the doctor’s office. In EXPECTING BETTER, Oster shows that the information given to pregnant women is sometimes wrong and almost always oversimplified.ĮXPECTING BETTER overturns standard recommendations for alcohol, caffeine, sushi, bed rest and induction, while putting in context the blanket guidelines for fetal testing, weight gain, risks of pregnancy over the age of 35, and nausea, among others. They hear frightening and contradictory myths about everything from weight gain to sleeping on your back to bed rest from friends and pregnancy books. Pregnant women are often treated as if they were children, given long lists of items to avoid – alcohol, caffeine, sushi – without any real explanation from their doctors about why. FREAKANOMICS meets WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING.Īward-winning Emily Oster debunks myths about pregnancy to empower women while they’re expecting. A groundbreaking guide to pregnancy: empowers women with the facts and allows them to make their own decisions.
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