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| Tue, 07-31-2007 - 10:20am |
Why does the media portray working moms, always, as having guilt?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/family/07/30/hm.mommy.guilt/index.html
| Tue, 07-31-2007 - 10:20am |
Why does the media portray working moms, always, as having guilt?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/family/07/30/hm.mommy.guilt/index.html
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"Yes I have been at work where I am very busy. However I take my lunch break early, or I leave work early."
I think what PNJ means is that sometimes it is neither possible to take a lunch break nor leave work early. There is no guarantee that one gets a free hour every day.
I've certainly been in that position any number of times. A certain amount of work had to be accomplished within one day regardless of my personal desire for a lunch break or the option of leaving early (in those cases, I often ended up skipping my lunch break and working later). Also, many people who face that kind of situation do not earn any overtime pay or other compensation. Both dh and I, for example, are not entitled to compensation of any kind for overtime work.
If there is a significant time cost to riding on the bus, I can kind of see the point. Otoh, I never found commuting via public transportation to really be a waste of time since it gave me the opportunity to just sit back and relax or catch up on fun reading. Obviously, it depends on the child to some extent.
In any case, yours is a very specific case of one child and one bus route. I don't really understand why Mbanc would categorically declare that her children will never ride the bus unless she has something fundamentally against the whole concept of bus riding for children.
Yes. We. Did.
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