Work

I was talking to someone of an older generation this past weekend and encountered my first negative response to me going back to work. When I mentioned I'd be going back to work next summer she just looked at me in this disapproving way. I said "he'll be a year old by then" and she said "but they're still so little then!"
She never outright said "that's horrible" but you could tell that's what she was thinking. And it made me feel a bit guilty! I can't imagine how hard and guilt-ridden it must have been to go back to work years ago when the overall mentality was that it wasn't good. Oh well...