how do i convince my husband

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Registered: 03-31-2004
how do i convince my husband
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Mon, 07-18-2005 - 4:09pm
how do i convince my husband to let me at least job-share so i can take care of our 3 month old dd? he grew up with his mom working & all his friend's moms working. we can afford it if we cut back on some things, but he doesn't want to cut back & just doesn't understand someone wanting to be a stay at home mom...it doesn't help mycause that the grandmothers will babysit. i'm so unhappy about having to go back to work...he wants me to work full time 1 more year & just doesn't get it! i feel like my heart is being ripped from my chest every time i hink about it.

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Mon, 08-08-2005 - 7:30pm

"Are you trying to goad me into giving you another one of my homeschooling days?"

Goad???

"Because I will if you don't cut it out..."

Sure, I'd love to hear another mockery of your homeschooling day LOL.

However, I really don't understand why you feel the need to resort to mockery, when you could just as easily share a *true portrayal* instead.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 08-08-2005 - 7:33pm
You still don't get it. The important part is "...in the sense of the word today, as a literary genre."
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Mon, 08-08-2005 - 7:35pm
The point is, following your dd around and calling everything she does "a homeschooling project" when the school she attends is not in session is a mockery of homeschooling.
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Mon, 08-08-2005 - 7:44pm

"I can only hope she stops before her daughter starts an indepth study of hormones and the reproductive cycles..y'know?"

Why wouldn't I want my dd to start "an indepth study of hormones and the reproductive cycles?"

BTW, nature is definately going to take it's course whether she does an indepth study on the subject or not LOL.

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Mon, 08-08-2005 - 7:45pm

"Just make her get up earlier. Put her to bed earlier. Really, routine is neither hard nor horrible."

What is this post in reference to?

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Mon, 08-08-2005 - 7:49pm

LOL, I know a biased site when I see one. It's not up to me to prove your site isn't credible, it's up to you to defend it's credibility. There you go again expecting others to do your leg work for you when it is your job.

If you're going to believe what they are saying, shouldn't you have already researched their credibility? Or do you just gravitate to sites that say what you like as I suspect?

I don't have to prove anything. You are the one trying to use the site to win your argument. I have told you I don't buy what this site is selling. It is now up to you to either defend the site with logic or alternative sites. One site doesn't prove anything. You can find a site on the internet to support just about any position you want to take.




Edited 8/8/2005 7:50 pm ET ET by kbmamm
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Mon, 08-08-2005 - 8:04pm

Ah, Groundhog Day. One of DH's favorite movies, partly because he is born on Groundhog Day. But he went through a phase of watching snippets of that movie over and over again. I don't think he noticed the irony.

We got in one of the worst fights of our marriage when he insisted that we use our week of vacation time actually to GO to Punxutaney for his 30th birthday. (We were trying to ttc - I thought a cruise might be more conducive, for some reason.) I finally went along with it but commented while making the horrific drive (very mountainous to get there from where we were living, and pitch dark) that it was an awfully long way to go to watch people dress in tuxedos and stand in the snow to meet a rodent people in our area ordinarily try to drive over. I thought it was funny. He didn't.

What do I have to do to view your signature any more, any idea? They used to come up automatically and they don't for me any more. :-(

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Mon, 08-08-2005 - 8:04pm

"So how old do you expect your child to be when she is finally confronted with sex, drugs and rock and roll, fights, etc?"

Well, on the rock and roll front, right now LOL. But on the sex and drugs front, I'm guessing about the time she starts middle school.

"That's all part of the "social experience" that school provides (having those things generally around)."

Yes, it is. And...? Are you suggesting that one needs to ride the bus in order to get "the full social experience?"

"How long are you going to shelter her from that?"

Well, I'm fairly certain that the bus won't be the only place for her to learn about sex and drugs LOL.

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Mon, 08-08-2005 - 8:08pm

"You still don't get it. The important part is "...in the sense of the word today, as a literary genre."

Ah, so some of it *is* fiction then LOL ;)

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Mon, 08-08-2005 - 8:09pm

"The point is, following your dd around and calling everything she does "a homeschooling project" when the school she attends is not in session is a mockery of homeschooling."

Prove it ;)

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