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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Thu, 07-02-2009 - 10:48pm
ooooh, I LIKE that. I'll have to use that on my 13 year old, LOL!
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Thu, 07-02-2009 - 10:57pm

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I see nothing wrong with either. All of our kids were opening their own water bottles from about age 8 on.

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Fri, 07-03-2009 - 12:37am

She occasionally asks for help, but we just tell her to either get herself a different knife (not all of them are the same sharpness) or to try turning the meat in a different direction.

Something my aunt suggested when my son was learning the skill was consider putting him in a higher chair (or resort to the old-fashioned way--sit on some phone books, LOL). She said her kids did better because it changed the angle of force from the shoulder (she had a longer technical explanation, but basically it was using physics to help :) That's also, btw, how she convinced kids who thought they were too old for boosters to use them--they weren't being treated like babies, they were using science :)

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Fri, 07-03-2009 - 12:47am

and i don't buy into notion that middle schoolers require supervision. mine can be trusted home alone.

Well, yeah , until they have to eat, and then they've got to wait for you to get back and cut it for them.

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The horrifying consequences of underaged
baking cannot be overstated.--me, because there's nothing you can't learn from teh
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"If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing."-- Kingsley Amis, British novelist, 1971 t .

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Fri, 07-03-2009 - 12:59am
My Mom's variation was, "Honey, I have good news and bad news. The good news is they found the center of the universe. The bad news is, it's not you." Even as annoying as it was to hear, it would usually make me laugh.

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The horrifying consequences of underaged
baking cannot be overstated.--me, because there's nothing you can't learn from teh
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Kitty

"If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing."-- Kingsley Amis, British novelist, 1971 t .

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Fri, 07-03-2009 - 6:20am

thank gosh some of us don't have to worry about being

 

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Fri, 07-03-2009 - 6:46am

nail on the head.

 

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Fri, 07-03-2009 - 6:57am

i was raised in a family of 6 kids.

 

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Registered: 02-07-2009
Fri, 07-03-2009 - 7:42am

Don't have to be gone all day to be gone during a meal time.

Since my kids were making their own breakfasts and lunches by about age 11 I do not see the necessity in making sure one is there to make it for them.




Edited 7/3/2009 7:48 am ET by semi-emptynester
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Fri, 07-03-2009 - 8:06am

you might be-- for example- Liza dances from 6-8 on on night 5:30-6:30 on another -- her rehearsals are always 6-8

her chorus concerts are all at 6:30

but here's the thing.... (wait for it) ...it doesn't interfer with dinner you know why?

Dinner. Doesn't. have. to. be. at. 6pm.
it doestn 'even have to be the same time every night. Suprisingly enough we still manage to sit down and eat meals involving all the major food groups and have conversations on these nights --sometimes we eat early at 5pm and sometimes we eat late at 8 or 8;30 -- don't matter to us.

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