Do you think a SAHM should go back to...

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Do you think a SAHM should go back to...
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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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Registered: 03-25-2003
Fri, 09-12-2003 - 4:25pm
If you want to call that "personal limitations" you are welcome to. That's just your biased and obviously limited opinion. My "personal limitations" are just that I hold different things in a higher priority than you.
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Fri, 09-12-2003 - 4:30pm
OH! Not laid back. We school from about 7:30 am to about 12. Then, we break for lunch and go back at about 1:30. I would go back sooner, but the babies need stuff about this time. We just school until we are done which is usually about 2 ish, sometimes later. It does entail much more "work" to get all of us ready to go than the average 2 kid family, so maybe that is why we feel so much pressure sometimes. We have a very rigorous academic schedule that we follow strictly... except for me... I sneak off to check the board. Our day is not all that laid back . I wish it was. I think perhaps more laid back than going to school outside the house, but not in the way you have suggested. I am not an unschooler. I don't get how having sons has anything to with it. They are just like other kids.... they just happen to school at home and usually have free time earlier. Only because time management is up to them.

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Fri, 09-12-2003 - 4:34pm
I get it now. You didn't read my post. I never said higher SES isn't generally better. But higher SES isn't always better, and DWOH doesn't always provide a higher SES. There are more factors to turning out better children than JUST SES... which is my point. Your only point is that WOH is better because it provides a higher SES (not always) and that SAH is never better because of that same reason. I am only pointing out that SES is not the only factor taking into account, and WOH is not conducive to improving some of those other factors.
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Registered: 07-21-2003
Fri, 09-12-2003 - 4:35pm
So you're saying that only 1% of the students ride the bus? Has anyone looked into the incredible waste of tax dollars going into your bus system? Why have it if no one will use it?

Why won't anyone use it?

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Registered: 07-21-2003
Fri, 09-12-2003 - 4:39pm
I agree with that too. I can't remember the last time my kids had an activity that started immediately after school. They (and I), really need to come home, have a snack, chill for a bit then rush off to practice or whatever.
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Registered: 07-21-2003
Fri, 09-12-2003 - 4:46pm
Hee, hee. I love to ski too, and my kids are in the ski club, so you know what I do? I volunteer to chaperone the ski trips. I ski FREE, I get to be with the kids, and they get to do one of their favorite activities. We all get something to eat in the lodge, and get home around 8:30.

Of course my husband isn't along on these trips, but I don't have a problem going places without him!

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Fri, 09-12-2003 - 4:48pm
slim, can you recommend any good ski resorts in ny that have lodging at the resort?
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Fri, 09-12-2003 - 4:54pm
I've never skiied in NY. When we go afterschool night skiing it's just to Southington in CT, and when I was in school we went to Mt. Tom in MA. When we go for the weekend we go to Vermont, usually Okemo, Mt. Snow, Killington or Butternut.

I know a LOT of people who used to live in the city went to Hunter MT., but I don't know about lodging. If you want to go further with good lodging, try the Berkshires (lots of great inns, and loads of smaller ski slopes like Butternut), or even futher to Lake Placid.

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Fri, 09-12-2003 - 4:56pm
When you talk about not wanting to live close to others or paying more for food. Those are the inconveniences of living in a more urban area.
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Fri, 09-12-2003 - 5:03pm
I would call the inconvenience not having public transportation, and living somewhere I can't afford not possible. Of course, I can't imagine living that close to others AND wanting to pay 4 times as much to do it.. but who knows.

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