I feel for you. As the father of two children I know it’s an expensive road to travel. The only financial benefit are the sizeable tax deductions.
Not really. If you want to work full time you still have to organize (pay) the following in primary school and kindergarten:
- lunch (not offered at school)
- afternoon and/or evening care on the days they get out early (usually Wednesdays always finish before noon)
- the seemingly random days when the teachers decide to have a training day and there is no school
- vacations (1-2 week every 6 weeks)
- public holidays which don’t match your days off work
It gets more complicated if your kids have different afternoons off like mine do. They both only have morning school on Wednesday but the younger one also has a short day on Monday. In kindergarten she had more of those but not every day.
Finally, when your kids grow up the other costs grow with them. It’s not a winning equation but it also shouldn’t be considered as such.