[GoNative]

My wife and I both work and have had our little girl in child care since she was 6 months old. My wife just isn't the housewife type. The first six months nearly sent her crazy being at home all the time. The child care place is awesome and she loves it and frankly I think it's better for her to have the social interaction from a young age and the opportunity to learn Japanese. She knows a lot more Japanese now than english and we often speak to her in Japanese at home since she responds better to it. We also have cleaners come in once or twice a week as neither of us can be much bothered with cleaning after coming home from work. It's not that my wife and I are really that big career types, we would never have come to live at a ski resort in Japan if we were career and money types (we both made a lot more in Australia) it's just life with 2 wages is a hell of lot better and easier than if one of us stayed home the whole time.