Guilt

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Guilt
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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


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Registered: 09-04-1997
In reply to: peteynjoeysmom
Mon, 08-06-2007 - 2:25pm
I don't think she is. There is a kind of investment strategy that involves picking up an undervalued home and then adding the kinds of improvements to it that will make it marketable and profitable, and then selling it for a profit. That kind of strategy involves a lot of time and effort, and the objective would be the profit, not the renovation itself. Obviously if you are renovating a home to make it more liveable for you and your family, and it happens to turn a turn a profit later, it's a whole different lifestyle and strategy.
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Registered: 12-29-2004
In reply to: peteynjoeysmom
Mon, 08-06-2007 - 2:26pm
Eh. Some people think of their 8yo's more like 6yo's, and some more like 10yo's. Makes little difference either way. But there are those who still think of their middle school-age kids as fragile flowers wrt transportation, and that's something I've never understood.
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Registered: 01-12-2004
In reply to: peteynjoeysmom
Mon, 08-06-2007 - 2:27pm

Ah, I understand.

Robin

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Registered: 03-27-2003
In reply to: peteynjoeysmom
Mon, 08-06-2007 - 2:28pm

I think child safety is a recent invention. It seems that each generation adds another layer of safety starting maybe 100 years ago?- whenever it was that people realized they didn't want hildren losing arms or lives to industrial machinery and some sort of child labor laws went into effect. But it's slow. Each generation adds a new element of safety beyond the previous one. (I'm not sure if there was child safetry as such before child labor laws. The child restraint widgets I've seen in museums from >100 years seem designed more to keep children from getting in mom's way.) I wonder what layer of safety our kids will add that will make us seem terrifyingly remiss in comparison?

edited to add: I just looked on wikipedia and found that the child labor laws were about getting kids into school, not keeping them safe from industrial accidents. And child abuse was entirely legal up until the turn of the century (wikipedia agian) so I guess it's actually quite remarkable that in 100 years we've gone from letting kids get their hands ripped off in factories to actually TRYING to prevent them from getting injured. It's a lot of preogress in a very short time. Each generation was significantly safer than its' parents starting about 1900.




Edited 8/6/2007 2:40 pm ET by susannahk2000
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Registered: 09-04-1997
In reply to: peteynjoeysmom
Mon, 08-06-2007 - 2:31pm
My neighbor is a house flipper. He is an electrician by trade, but he also has plumbing and carpentry skills, and he is constantly picking up an undervalued home -- usually one that needs just cosmetic upgrades, like the people have lived their for forty years and never changed the counters, carpets, and wall colors. He hardly ever has a time when he isn't buying a home, fixing a home, or selling a home.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
In reply to: peteynjoeysmom
Mon, 08-06-2007 - 2:31pm

<<Your words are very clear to me that you really dont get what I am saying. >>


You mean the words that clearly state that I get what you are saying?

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
In reply to: peteynjoeysmom
Mon, 08-06-2007 - 2:39pm

Curious as to why you aren't answering my questions....so let's add another to the pile, what does doing my current job remotely have to do with.....anything?


Do you not believe that I can not continue my job and/or career in any other area than my current one?

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-27-2003
In reply to: peteynjoeysmom
Mon, 08-06-2007 - 2:40pm

Eh. I personally would rather get another 1/2 hour -40 minutes of sleep than haul my cookies to a cold bus stop to sit and wait for a bus to take the fragile flower to school.

Meh. not a big deal as far as I'm concerned.

 

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Registered: 03-27-2003
In reply to: peteynjoeysmom
Mon, 08-06-2007 - 2:42pm

About ten years ago when i was working for our state's humanities council I ran a "living history " program each summer featuring different historicl characters. one year we featured PT Barnum and the scholar who portrayed him did a workshop for children about circus acts of old -- during his talk the kids in the audience fixated on one thing --

NONE of the daredevil acts wore helmets. they could NOT let this go.every single question these kids asked about circus daredevil acts was about the absence of helmets... it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. you could tell this was generation of kids raised with bike helmets who could just not conceive there was ever a time 'without' them.

 

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Registered: 01-10-2007
In reply to: peteynjoeysmom
Mon, 08-06-2007 - 2:43pm
No, they never take it as income. They are, in essence, a volunteer.

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