Confessions of one sahm

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Confessions of one sahm
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Fri, 04-03-2009 - 1:58pm

I've been thinking about this *debate* lately, and I think that many of my

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Registered: 04-22-2009
Thu, 07-02-2009 - 5:14pm

you've SO missed the point. Here it is:

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Registered: 04-22-2009
Thu, 07-02-2009 - 5:17pm

seemed to me to be a no-brainer, BUT it may be that people that don't have middle/high school kids OR don't have kids involved in extracurricular activities (that take place outside of school hours), don't really "get it".


we do our best to have family dinner as many nights per week as possible. Sometimes it just doesn't work that way.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Thu, 07-02-2009 - 5:17pm

I did, it made me lol....so true about teenage boys, ime.


PumpkinAngel

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Thu, 07-02-2009 - 5:19pm

I am thinking we averages about 6.9 dinners together during the week when the kids were smaller. It's probably about five nights a week now, between the kids' schedules and mine and DH's. I do more travelling for work now, something I would not do when they were babies, and the kids are sometimes busy with sports, or invited to dinner at a friends' house or something like that.

We also have this kind of "half and half" dinner together thing, because, especially during summer, half the neighborhood seems to be over at our house come dinnertime, and I will often have the boys and their friends eat out on the deck -- our table only holds six without the leaf, and if there are eight or ten kids hanging around waiting for the burgers to come off the grill, it is easier all 'round to feed them outside, particularly if something like watermelon or ice cream gets involved. It is easier to hose off the deck than get all the sticky off of the indoor furniture.

There I go, taking the easy way out again!

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Registered: 05-13-2009
Thu, 07-02-2009 - 5:20pm
I often hear how polite, well-behaved my kids are too, but I don't find it flattering. Are there really so many unruly kids that behavior that I find a normal expectation is exceptional to others? I think that's kind of sad.
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Registered: 04-22-2009
Thu, 07-02-2009 - 5:24pm
you made me chuckle. Sometimes, I've had to tell my dd, "no honey, it's not about you all the time".
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Thu, 07-02-2009 - 5:26pm

Ah....I'm not alone, kids come and go at your house as well?

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 01-08-2009
Thu, 07-02-2009 - 5:34pm
Yeah, I missed whatever started that, but our neighborhood seems to hold a lot of free range kids who are always in and out of each other's homes. We see that as a good thing, though. Is is supposed to be a bad thing?
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Registered: 10-08-1998
Thu, 07-02-2009 - 5:54pm
Our neighborhood is the same.
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Registered: 03-26-2009
Thu, 07-02-2009 - 6:06pm

I think you forget I have a skinny 10 yr. old girl and 5 yr. old boy. Yes, they do need help opening a water bottle and I find nothing wrong with that.


So you have no problem with wasting food either?


I find it amazing how some people will say how fast the years go by and how fast the kids grow up. Maybe if they let them stay young a little bit younger, they wouldn't feel this way-shrug.


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