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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Did you really think I'd think otherwise? Surely not.
My family, as well as I, don't see me as financially dependent. I'm in a marriage, we are a team, we have a bank acount that is ours. Sure, dh earns the dollars that go into it, but that doesn't keep it from being ours. Just like the deed to our home is in our name, both cars are ours, so forth.
My brother wants me to work for him because he wants it to be me in that position for his 4 restaurants rather than hiring out to someone else. We like the idea that family works for family. My dad's niece is one of his nurses for instance. She didn't need him to give her a job. But my dad would rather hire a family member over another person when they are both qualified equally to do the same job. Perhaps you don't understand that we enjoy each other & want to work together, if we are going to work out of the home.
My brother's wife is a sahw. My sister, owner/manager of a company, will become a sahw when she marries. I really don't think they see anything difficult or odd about sah. lol
Your post is so funny. It could not be farther from the actual truth of our family. Your odd view of life is well, odd and thank goodness none of us share how you believe people should live and raise their kids!
And since my brother's wife is a sahw & my sister will become a sahw, you are wrong.
My dh is not a money bucket. He has worked hard & earned every penny we have and we have ever spent. Nothing was given to us and he is far from a trust fund rich boy lol There is also nothing wrong with a husband and wife being a team, which we are.
I am employable. But explaining it to you again, is really not worth my time when I could be sipping wine with dh which is much more fun
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