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| Fri, 09-05-2003 - 11:46am |
Do you think a SAHM should go back to work once the kids start school?
- Absolutely, why shouldn't she? There's no reason why she shouldn't.
- It's up to her & her family.
- No, not really. What do the kids being in school have to do w/ her working?
You will not be able to change your vote.

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I did get your point, but it's clear you totally missed mine.
You condemn SAHMs for claiming to need down time where nothing productive gets done, while supporting WOHMs for doing it. And you attempted to claim that TV increases in quality at night over daytime. I laughed at that ridiculous logic, because my point is trash TV is trash TV and it's programmed 24/7.
You know what that judge did in that case? Would you even care to see HOW WRONG it was for him to just make that arbitrary decision?
BTW. The judge entitled the SAHM a Salary, based on a hard job. and she won nearly 50k/yr as a salary that was "her earned right" b/c she WAS a SAHM, based on the agreement of the couple when they started out.
Now, according to THAT ruling, ANY spouse who chooses to SAH, is entitled to a "said" income, whether the other says they earned it or not. They did earn it, cause no one else was home taking care of the issues there.
SO for you to declare arbitrarily that "the breadwinner" deserves his "earned" right, is argumentatively wrong.
TwinsMom
John attended a different elementary school for kindergarten than for the rest of grades 1-5, but within the same school system. Because we lived within the 1 mile distance for kindergarten AND because there were no major highways to cross, John walked to school (from his daycare, with his other K classmates, accompanied by one of the daycare teachers). We lived within the 1 mile restriction at the other school, but he would have had to walk most of that distance along a very busy highway with no crosswalks or sidewalks, where the posted speedlimit was 50mph, so the school offered bus service to our neighborhood.
However, many parents in this school district drive their kids rather than expecting them to walk and the reasons vary. Some kids are expected to walk, daily, along bike paths which have a reputation for not being safe, because there are many places along these paths which cannot be seen from a street or house--If I had a daughter, I would have been leery allowing her to walk such a path every single day. Similarly, the homework schedules at the higher grades were so stringent, that many kids take home ALL their books EVERY night, which makes bookbags hideously heavy...much too heavy for most adolescent muscular and skeletal development to handle appropriately and the lockers at high school and middle school aren't big enough to allow a rolling backpack to fit inside. At the higher grades, the distances for walking increase to 1.5 miles (middle school) and 2 miles (high school)
Those are just some of the reasons and I can understand why a parent would be reluctant to make a kid walk just because the school system says the school is "close enough."
Explain to me how a Dictatorship is working together.. I seem to have missed that part.....
TwinsMom
What world do you live on where that is even feasable? Like I said earlier, SHE DOES earn her way by being there, making dinner, taking care of finances.. You might as well do it alone by your way of thinking.. I can hardly believe your still married.. Damn, maybe I am just missing something in this long thread.. But I have read every post, and you come off sounding like one stuck up ...., not only that, but your selfish to boot.
TwinsMom
I reitenerate my stand point. From MY position, this statement is one of the reasons I said you were SELFISH!!! Just b/c he hasn't earned a retirement with a company, doesn't give you the right to be the JUDGE, JURY and EXCUTIONER in his decisions. YOU, Yourself said YOU make YOUR OWN career decisions withOUT his imput. YET he is suppose to sit back and TAKE your Demands, and not retire b/c you feel he hasn't earned it. Yeah RIGHT.
And if this man, did spend UPTEEN yrs trying to find a job that DOES interest him. MAYBE you SHOULD spend a few years a job you hate, so you can see his pov.
**shiver** You really scare me.
TwinsMom
PS. Um, Why are you married? Is/was convienence??
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" And you attempted to claim that TV increases in quality at night over daytime" Ha! Also wrong. In fact, I claimed that almost all TV was crap, day or night, just that it didn't seem to matter as much if you wasted time at the end of the day when you weren't going to do anything productive anyway.
Do you even READ my posts? It doesn't appear so.
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