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Expectations on your children...
| 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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Mondo
I love that show.
Well, do you think there is any merit in encouraging a child who is really half-hearted to just GO AHEAD and get your degree, THEN go figure things out....because 10 years from now when that child DOES care and now has a family to support - that degree could come in really useful - even if it was gotten in a half-hearted method.
I think it's OK to strongly encourage a child to do what is best in the parent's opinion is OK even at 18, or 20, as long as it's not FORCED on them..
Mondo
I absolutely disagree that "all" of the jobs on the career list that you presented with few or no female workers "involve tough physical labor" or that there is any indication in the information that you have presented which suggests that the dearth of women is "the primary reason that there ARE few or no women in these occupations." I mean, c'mon, engineering? Subway transport? Small engine or elevator or auto glass repair? You could be in ANY of those fields if you were in physical condition just this side of needing an iron lung.
Oh Opinion,Another post I actually agree with you on!
And now I'll take this to college. You don't want to buy a skateboard unless you have evidence it will be ridden by your dd and not just sit in the closet. The same logic should apply to college. Why spend $$$$ on a degree that somebody doesn't really want? Better to say "if you want to go, I'll pay for it" rather than "you must go or else no $$$ for you". Don't you want evidence she's going to "ride" that degree and not let it sit in the closet? Somebody who doesn't want college at 18 might want it at 22 after working at Starbucks for 4 years, and then she'll get those broad horizons that college can give to people who really want it. But if she gets a degree just because YOU want her to, not because SHE wants to, the degree will "sit in the closet" as unused and non-broadening as an unridden skateboard.
There are wheelbarrows and hand trucks and a dozen other ways to move the cement. Two people can carry the 4x4's.
No one should be carrying excessive weight, whether or not they can, whether or not they're male.
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