how do i convince my husband

iVillage Member
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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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-31-2003
Tue, 08-09-2005 - 6:47pm

"Keep *doing* what you want, but *call* it something other than homeschooling."

No :)

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-31-2003
Tue, 08-09-2005 - 6:54pm

"To insist on the objective superiority of utterly impractical childrearing practices that produce (at best) an incremental benefit to the baby (and in some cases none at all) is self deluded glorification of the mother's role."

I do not believe in objective truth nor objective superiority, especially when it comes to this debate. How exactly can I insist upon something that I do not believe in?

"As others have said, a mother who clings to these practices against all reason would be well advised to get and enjoy a life of her own."

Against all reason huh? And what reasons (or line of reasoning) are those LOL ?

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-31-2003
Tue, 08-09-2005 - 6:55pm

"For the record, the reason I find your misuse of the word homeschooling so offensive and annoying is 1)it is a mockery of true homeschooling and 2)it is unbelievably arrogant."

And once again, *your* opinion doesn't make it so ;)

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-31-2003
Tue, 08-09-2005 - 7:04pm

"You do know how silly this is, considering who you are disagreeing with here?"

No I don't, perhaps you could enlighten me :)

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-12-2003
Tue, 08-09-2005 - 7:05pm
Oh, I don't know, telling a literary professor what is and isn't fiction?

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-04-1997
Tue, 08-09-2005 - 7:15pm
I'm a professor of history, not a literary professor. But she knows that. And she also knows that you can't enlighten her, since she really isn't interested in learning anything.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 08-09-2005 - 8:25pm

You don't believe in the objective superiority of your childrearing practices? Then what on earth have you been posting about without end?

"Against all reason", as in logic or rational thought.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-12-2003
Tue, 08-09-2005 - 8:32pm
Something like that! ;)
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-25-2004
Tue, 08-09-2005 - 8:56pm

Let me explain this SLOWLY. You brought the site up, I told you it appears biased it is up to YOU who wants it believed to prove it's not. One only need spend about two minutes on this site to know it has an agenda.

Produce another site that isn't biased or forget it. You, obviously, can't support the credibility of the site you posted. No one, except you apparently, is going to assume something is correct just because it's posted on the internet. You do realize that just because something is posted doesn't mean it's right, right? You selected a heavily biased site. Find another objective one. None of us are going to accept what is printed on a biased site as fact.

If you think it is, then prove it.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-25-2004
Tue, 08-09-2005 - 8:57pm
Apparently not. If it's on the internet it MUST be right. I mean they wouldn't allow it to be put on the web if it wasn't the truth, ugh.

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