Confessions of one sahm

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Registered: 01-09-2009
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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Ducky

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Registered: 01-08-2009
Fri, 07-03-2009 - 3:48pm
So why don't your kids play with other kids in the neighborhood and run in and out of each other's homes? What has changed since 1980 to make that undesirable or impossible? Are there not kids their age in the neighborhood?
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Registered: 04-22-2009
Fri, 07-03-2009 - 3:48pm
that's ME making the challah french toast!
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Registered: 01-15-2006
Fri, 07-03-2009 - 3:50pm

when with friends,i've been known to blame my drinking on my dad.

 

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Registered: 10-08-1998
Fri, 07-03-2009 - 3:50pm
Are there not many kids?
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Registered: 01-08-2009
Fri, 07-03-2009 - 3:51pm
Three out of the four of us don't do well unless we have some kind of protein at breakfast. I still cook breakfast for the kids most school day mornings although in the summer I usually let my older one sleep later and get his own breakfast. I can't be hanging around until 9 or 10 am until he is up and ready to eat. The younger one is usually up and out the door by 7 am because he likes to mow a lawn or two before it gets hot.
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Registered: 03-26-2009
Fri, 07-03-2009 - 3:51pm
I am sure you are aware of the change in America and dinnertime. I have heard it many times how families just do NOT spend dinnertime together anymore. Are you aware of how families are today? Calling on cellphones from one level of the house to the next. Emailing and IMing each other in the same house on different computers. Many activities for each person that they are running around all the time.
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Registered: 04-22-2009
Fri, 07-03-2009 - 3:51pm
come out of left-field much???
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Registered: 10-08-1998
Fri, 07-03-2009 - 3:54pm
LOL- my parents didn't drink wine when I was
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Registered: 04-22-2009
Fri, 07-03-2009 - 3:54pm

Most parents not only had no issue with my use of e-mail this year -- In fact, most WELCOMED it. It allowed us to communicate on a time-table that worked for everyone.


there were a few issues where phone contact was needed so I called.


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Registered: 01-08-2009
Fri, 07-03-2009 - 3:56pm

Well, I have been known to call my kid on the cellphone to ask him to come upstairs! Better than hollering through the house!

I don't really trust the media to tell me how other people in different parts of the country are living; I know what I see with my own eyes and what goes on here. I know, for instance, that when the kids were rehearsing for the spring play at school this year and were required to be there from after school until about 6 pm that several families complained about how hard it made dinnertime together, especially for those kids who had other evening activies; that tells me that dinnertime together is a priority even if it is not always realized.

We manage to have dinner together almost every evening, maybe five out of seven nights a week. It used to be more, but I really think that the kids' growing independence and outside activities are important. I would have a full scale rebellion on my hands if I told the kids they couldn't be in jazz band or play high school sports because they have to miss dinner ten times a year for it!

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