Parental Leave - Highly recomment it!

Post by **Big Bass Buddy** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:43 am

My wife had to suggest very hard that I take parental leave with my little girl. So I decided to take it from June to September. What a blessing that was. Enjoyed every minute of it. Took the little one fishing with me. Got the pictures on my desk....... I even took the wife.

The only thing about parental leave is trying to get EI from the governement. It took me 2 months to get my first payment. After that was hell........................

Post by **MichaelVandenberg** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:19 am

BBB,

I hear you about EI. It took me a while as well. Make sure you have some extra cash in the bank while you wait for the E1 checks. I didn't. Good thing the wife was bringing in some cash.

Cheers,

Mike

Post by **Big Bass Buddy** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:29 am

Yeah I did pro, but that went very quick. It is amazing the cost of baby supplies. As well as being home you can go out more, thus you soend more.............My complete savings 3 months salary did me for 1 1/2 months..........

Post by **teppy** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 6:05 pm

I too took the parental leave back in 1992 and it was great, Would suggest it to anybody and everybody. Now my daughters going to be 13 and I don`t know where the time went. Great experience and besides lifes too short not to.
teppy

Post by **Moosebunk** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:16 pm

Parental leave would've been great, but the wife knew what she was doing with the kids and didn't trust that I knew too

She took 8 months. Sure I could have got my 4, but the lost revenue would've meant 4 extra months in the North. And, that's not part of the grand plan.

Leave has it's benefits for some though.