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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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The fact is, we are so spoiled in this country with the availability of cars and the vast amount of space, that we have built a society that makes a lot of public transpotation impossible to manage. It is such a shame. The sprawl is such a terrible waste of land and puts a big strain on our resources, not to mention the horrendous traffic jams and pollution. Which further requires building new roads, and so on and so on.
Yes, it was the car companies that promoted a lot of this. What is worse is when young people like you don't even consider public transportation a viable option, ever.
Americans do have a great love affair with their cars. It is a great convenience and luxury that we take for granted. Public transportation would be a much more efficient way of moving lots of people around, but nobody wants to be bothered.
Personally, I demand that my kids have music lessons. Depending on schedules, that may just be one day a week or, like this year, two days a week. Then there is sports. We choose to put our kids in the YMCA sports program as long as possible. Unfortunately, DD is too old for their baseball program now (they only have t-ball), but they can both play the other sports for a lot longer. With the YMCA, it is usually two days a week. Either one practice and one game per week, or two practices or two games. But with two kids, if they are both playing soccer, and on different teams, that may be 3 nights right there (all games are on Saturdays, but practices vary). Then figure in church activities and art lessons or girl/boy scouts, and it makes for a hectic life if we were a dual WOH family.
Okmrsmommy-36, CPmom to DD-16 and DS-14
As an example, because my son went to an after care program outside his assigned school's bus route, my ex had to take him to care after school every day. Because my son didn't ride the bus in the afternoon, he was not permitted to ride the bus in the morning. Plenty of kids face the same dilemma, whether it's a matter of their before/after school care programs, after school activities or joint custodial arrangements with one parent living outside the school district.
When we first moved to the condo (in John's 1st grade year), I spent most of the summer before seeking before/after care with a provider on our neighborhood bus route (school regulations prohibited a child riding a bus different from the one that was assigned to his neighborhood of record). There was 1 and we were on a waiting list for most of the summer, hoping a slot with her would open. and it did, fortunately. Halfway through that school year, the school system arbitrarily split the bus route in half, and my provider ended up on the OTHER route. I had to practically throw a fit to get the supervisor in charge of transportation for the county give my son a waiver permiting him to ride the other bus for the remainder of the year. If they hadn't agreed, my provider would have had to quit, and I would have had to find alternative care, outside the neighborhood route and John would have had to been taken via car to and from school.
Our school system is not unique in that requirement. Many school districts forbid children riding any bus other than the one to which they are assigned, and if a family's personal situation doesn't permit the child to be in the neighborhood to catch the bus, they have to drive the child to school.
She isn't little either. She is in the 6th grade.
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Did I say WOHM's can't do the same things as SAHMS? Nope, Didn't. You can't call me personally on that one.
I really could care less about your little research and little studies. Blow it.........because I do not go buy such crap to justify or decide my positions and choices in life!
It made a difference to me personally that I had a sahm, I was always so thankful I wasn't a kid of a working mom. So I wanted to do the same for my kids. My husband had a working mom, it was enough for him to know he'd have a sahm for his kids!
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