Expectations on your children...
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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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You know.
Trades training and education, is much more specific and provides benefit of a much more limitted scope.
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.... ;)
Mondo
<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.
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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