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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?
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Cindy
My blog, Letters From Midlife
Our "ymca" isn't any more new than the parks & rec dept activities or the school that has been around for years.
S.V.
Edited 9/10/2003 2:23:35 PM ET by silverunity
We are grateful there are 3-6p programs that fit our lives.
We have some friends w/2 kids, one school age, the other a toddler and they love the activities from 3-6p because they eat dinner, take baths, and every body in bed by 9 and you've got to have family time (and they are like us, that isn't sitting at soccer practice that qualifies as "family" time) and of course there is homework for the school child that has to be done.
S.V.
Oh and school activities? Yes I know. Teachers want to go home. Thats why they're early. Our school activities don't even start till Gr 4 anyway. By Gr 5, my kids can walk themselves home and stay there for 30 mins alone. This year, all thats offered is cross country running. Works out perfectly, its in the am when my child is in the before school program anyway. Its not going to be a problem. I wasn't talking school activities -those aren't the "prime" things I'm going to quit work to facilitate. The private leagues provide the real stuff. Parks and rec? Thats always low end too. Its cheap, its designed to provide low cost activities at tax payers expense, to people who can't afford anything else. Ditto for the Y. I have nothing against that - I'm just not limitted to it myself so I don't care what their schedual is. School and parks and rec and the Y are not even soccer league, or baseball league, or hockey league. Its not gym club, or dance studio. These programs aren't the stuff one quits work in order that a child may take advantage. They are where you go if you can't afford anything else. Lived in an area where even dual working families couldn't afford anything else, back when we were one. Guess what...the scheduals of even parks and rec were...can you believe it...accessible to dual income families. This IS how things work. But as I said, this isn't the stuff one quits work to access. Its the other stuff for which one works so that their kids may have access - the leagues, the studios, the clubs. With income, comes choice. As usual. And you get what you pay for, as usual.
So, It may be the norm in your community for all events/activities to take place between 3-6 but not necessarily all communities . However, since your are a SAHM you may have never investigated if there are indeed activities in the evenings in your community. When I had my baby, a SAHM friend said I wouldnt be able to do activities with my baby since I worked and everything offered is during the day. It turned out not to be true. We did gymboree and he is now in a baby and me swim class on Saturdays.
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