Expectations on your children...

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Expectations on your children...
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Thu, 06-03-2004 - 1:56pm
Wrt their working status/parenting as an adult?

If you SAH, will you encourage your daughter (or son) to do the same? How would you feel if they chose different from the path you have taken as a parent?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 06-07-2004 - 11:54am
A chef's education is unlikely to broaden horizon's much. Trade education and training is very limitted in scope. A university degree, whatever it is, has the ability to open up completely unrelated doors. If those head smackers ever decide the get tired of the hands on aspect of their trades...they may well find themselves being somewhat glad of that degree afterall.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 06-07-2004 - 11:55am
NO!

No reputable or marginally smart employer wants employees using that kind of brute strength. Jobs that are that physically taxing guarantee injuries and Workers Compensation claims. What would strain the back of one person can comfortably be done with a hand from another carpenter. It's called working smart and safe.

I don't know what CLW thinks carpenters do, but there's nothing about that job that an average woman couldn't do.

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Registered: 03-18-2004
Mon, 06-07-2004 - 11:57am

Oh yeah, and my favorite.

Mondo

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Registered: 12-10-2003
Mon, 06-07-2004 - 11:59am
Those are all examples of people taking care of you. Not YOU taking care of yourself.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 06-07-2004 - 12:03pm
Very good point. And thanks to teamwork and the invention of some truly wonderful power tools, brute strength is no longer the necessity it used to be.
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Registered: 08-19-2003
Mon, 06-07-2004 - 12:04pm
>>Your family sure seems to be bending over backwards to get you into less financially dependant position than the one you have worked so hard to create for yourself...right from your estranged mother through your Dad and brother and sister right to your sisters in law.<<

I thought this was interesting as well.

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Mon, 06-07-2004 - 12:10pm

Thank you for saying that so well!

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2003
Mon, 06-07-2004 - 12:12pm

I am assuming that your children are still kids.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-18-2004
Mon, 06-07-2004 - 12:14pm

Yes, but I've personally watched a demo and large carpentry job.

Mondo

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 06-07-2004 - 12:15pm
What on earth do you think a carpenter does? You keep saying that most women can't do it, but you haven't said what it is that women can't do.

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