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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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Hollie
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Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
Hollie
http://attach.prospero.com/n/docs/docDownload.aspx?guid=7E117344-D332-46AD-A2B2-30B19FAEACCF&webtag=iv-pssahwoh
Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
You do realize carpentry doesn't always mean barn raising and the like, right?
Why can't a woman have the strength it takes to carry those beams or bags of cement.
My father was a master carpenter/cabinetmaker, and I spent nearly every waking moment in his shop from the time I was born until he died when I was 12. I know just a little something about the work. Any hand can do the heavy lifting, and usually does; using a master carpenter for that sort of work is a waste of money. The carpenter is the one next to the beam waiting to make sure it is level and square before fastening it down correctly, he (or she) would not normally be the guy hefting it up.
The primary issue in terms of strength is controlling the power tools; they have a kick.
However, modern safety guidelines have all but eliminated using most of those tools as handhelds; nail guns being the primary exception. These days, you bolt them down and use fixed jigs and fences to make sure the blades stay where they need to be, and away from your hands. I assure you, I can handle large power tools just fine, and I'm faster than many men I know. Doing things like sinking nails with one blow is a matter of skill, not strength; I've been able to do it since I was 5. It is all in the way you wield the hammer, the length of the swing and the angle of the strike. If you don't hit it square, strength won't really help.
BTW, what was a carpenter doing working a jackhammer? That's mason's work. (Now masonry DOES require a lot of brute strength; it is hellishly hard on the body in many ways.)
Um, Hollie. . .ya know I love ya, but. . .why doesn't the carpenter just put the 50 lb bag of cement mix INTO the wheelbarrow to move it from truck to porch, then cut it open (using
Hollie
http://attach.prospero.com/n/docs/docDownload.aspx?guid=7E117344-D332-46AD-A2B2-30B19FAEACCF&webtag=iv-pssahwoh
Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
Hollie
http://attach.prospero.com/n/docs/docDownload.aspx?guid=7E117344-D332-46AD-A2B2-30B19FAEACCF&webtag=iv-pssahwoh
Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
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