Heart vs. Head: The work status decision

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Heart vs. Head: The work status decision
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Tue, 01-17-2006 - 1:03pm
Did you make your decision to SAH/WAH/WOH ft/pt based primarily on objective/tangible factors, or with your heart?

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Registered: 01-10-2006
Tue, 02-07-2006 - 4:08pm
Really?
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Registered: 01-10-2006
Tue, 02-07-2006 - 4:10pm
No, I mean group setting daycare. My apologies. I do not think the same applies in a nanny situation.
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Registered: 01-10-2006
Tue, 02-07-2006 - 4:11pm
I'm just saying I dont think everyone aspires to SAH so "proper planning" to SAH is irrelevant to some.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 02-07-2006 - 4:12pm

No, you have decided what I have decided, I didn't decide anything....that's why I asked a question.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-04-2004
Tue, 02-07-2006 - 4:14pm

***i live in pretty modernized and industrialized part of the US and the first house we bought her had no air conditioning - it is actually more rare around here for homes to have air.***

I guess it *is* a regional thing. Even here in the northeast though, around me virtually everyone has air and heat is necessary for our cold winters. For me I'd be a mess without air- allergies just aren't a good thing when one doesn't have that nice climate control LOL ;)

***we never have our house up to 71 degrees in the winter, one we would go broke paying the heating bills and secondly we feel that is just too warm, we keep our home at about 67 degrees***

Our thermostat is *set* at 68, but the house tends to get alot warmer than the set temp. Personally I'd be a popsicle if it were actually 68. WAY too cold for me.

***if a child is wrapped in a blanket how are they getting skin to skin contact?***

As newborns they were wrapped up with me in said blanket. Or in a sling. But for the first few weeks it was under the blanket in bed with me (I had c-sections so I was in bed quite awhile after their births.) Lots of snuggle time ;) Although the recovery was beastly...

Wytchy

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Registered: 12-29-2004
Tue, 02-07-2006 - 4:17pm
Not to pick on you, but I find in your posts a steady mixing-up of "reasons to SAH" that have to do with parental preferences and others that seem to be about what's good for kids. This post is an example. If you just want to SAH and enjoy your kids, great, why not? But to avoid separation anxiety or somehow cushion a kid from that? As another poster pointed out, they'll get anxious about your being in the next room if it's time for them to have separation anxiety. How does it help a child to remove all anxiety, fear, worry, negative emotions of all kinds? It's part of growing up.
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Registered: 01-12-2004
Tue, 02-07-2006 - 4:17pm

I see your point, but in this day and age the schools have to have strict guidelines. I am glad that they do.

Robin

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 02-07-2006 - 4:17pm

No it doesn't.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 01-13-2006
Tue, 02-07-2006 - 4:17pm
i like this post, it pretty much sums up how i feel about this. would my sisters kids have been as sickly if they had gone to daycare, who knows. would my kids have been as healthy if they had sah, again who knows.
Jennie
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Registered: 06-04-2004
Tue, 02-07-2006 - 4:17pm

Maybe. But when most of the other kids are doing just fine- I doubt it's an issue with the daycare.

Wytchy

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