Expectations on your children...

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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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Mon, 06-07-2004 - 1:42pm
I don't agree. The guy wielding the nail gun doing the framing is more to my mind the lower paid joiner than the guy (or gal) master carpenter doing the fine craftsman work and/or the work which requires a thorough knowledge of the code and the engineering behind it.
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Mon, 06-07-2004 - 1:46pm
Of course I do. And in the case of someone who relies on his or her hands for a living, it would be colossally stupid for many true carpenters to be handling things like jackhammers.
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Mon, 06-07-2004 - 1:46pm

You know.

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Mon, 06-07-2004 - 1:47pm
I think your "iron lung" comment is a bit of an exaggeration.
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Mon, 06-07-2004 - 1:48pm
The piece of paper provides options over and above those that are available without it, in ways that have nothing to do with the exact nature of the degree. Noone is going to ask the owner of the degree, how much partying occured. You are totally misinterpreting the nature of the broadenning. All horizon broadenning is not within the control of the individual.

Trades training and education, is much more specific and provides benefit of a much more limitted scope.

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Mon, 06-07-2004 - 1:51pm

Yes, but you've never lived in a house where the roof very nearly DID collapse on your head (I'm guessing here) or had waterfalls coming through your kitchen cabinets when it rained....LOL...it's all about perspective...

BTW, I do have some very nice custom moldings, etc done, but if I had to choose between those moldings and my roof staying up....I'll choose the roof staying up.... ;)

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Mon, 06-07-2004 - 1:52pm

<ow come so MANY women choose teaching and health care jobs? >>


Because, by nature, physiologically, men aren't as good "nuturers" and those are more nurturing jobs. I think the average woman is more likely to be a good nurse than the average man, because of her hormonal and chemical makeup. Can some men do it successfully? Sure.


I think a lot of the "stereotypes" out there started with good reason and were justified. ie. in "pioneer" days, men were significantly stronger than the women and needed to be out in the fields and on the ranches, etc. Women then had to be more active in roles as teacher, nurse and shopkeeper. If a man took a job teaching, that left one less able body out harvesting wheat. All the men were so needed doing the manual labor that only women were left

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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Mon, 06-07-2004 - 1:52pm
But what determines whether weight is "excessive" or not?

For me, carrying/lifting/whatever 60 lbs would be excessive. For my DH, it wouldn't be excessive. If a job requires regularly carrying/lifting/whatever this amount, my DH would be better suited for it than I would. A wheelbarrow would make it easier on me, but I still couldn't do this as a regular part of my job.

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Mon, 06-07-2004 - 1:53pm
The child in question is 10 - and already capable of making her own decsions in terms of her wants and needs. As I have explained. In this case, demonstrate interest in skateboarding, and get one, or don't and don't get one. Totally - totally - up to her. She will most likely never find herself in a position to decide how to spend my disposable income according to her wants and needs no matter how old she gets.
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Mon, 06-07-2004 - 1:53pm
Oh, c'mon, aren't you going to fight back more than THAT? What fun are you?

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