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: 03-26-2003
Tue, 08-09-2005 - 9:27pm

Well, you're not homeschooling.


Why, exactly, did you give up teaching?

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Tue, 08-09-2005 - 10:17pm

I don't mind if she calls it homeschooling; what the hey, we're all homeschooling by her definition. I am going to be homeschooling this fall, I guess. I just joined a homeschooling co-op and my younger son is going to get French lessons in return for me teaching Latin to a group of middle school homeschoolers one evening a week. And he is going to play for the homeschool baseball team this fall. The homeschoolers call that PE. I call it extra-curricular activities. So I guess I get to brag that my kid is both public schooled, homeschooled formally by others and homeschooled informally by me (you know, when we go through the physics involved in picking up his room and stuff like that). Gee, I feel so very special.

In fact, he's been out all evening looking at the moon and Mars through his super-dee-duper garage sale telescope AND making a map of the craters of the moon (which looks not a whole lot like the poster in his room done by professionals, but I'm not giving grades. And tomorrow night we're going to family night at the university planetarium. Is that like a homeschool science field trip? Darn, I am SO good.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 08-09-2005 - 10:18pm

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No, you aren't.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 08-09-2005 - 10:37pm

I think you should keep calling it homeschooling.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Tue, 08-09-2005 - 10:48pm
I told you not to irritate the pig.
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Registered: 03-31-2003
Wed, 08-10-2005 - 6:30am

"How about acknowledgment of sources posted on the other side?"

Oh, you mean sources about *recent* history? Yes, I acknowledge that they are credibile, though not entirely relevent.

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Wed, 08-10-2005 - 6:56am

"Even the children's bible stories are categorized in non-fiction. Noah's Ark, a picture book, is 222."

Yes, children's bible stories, mythology, folklore and folktales, tall tales and legends, and fairy tales are all categorized in non-fiction. Do you catch my drift here?

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Wed, 08-10-2005 - 7:00am

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"Because unless I wanted to go to Ft. Leavenworth, I had to be at work by 6am and 5am was the latest I could put off leaving the house in the morning."

Oh, so in all actuality, *you* needed to have him up at 5 am.

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Wed, 08-10-2005 - 7:08am

"It is historical in the sense that it accurately depicts daily life at the time and also accurately depicts ecomomical and governmental activities. These aspects of the Bible have been verified by archeologists."

And it is fictional/mythological in the sense that many of the stories (The Creation Story, Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, The Tower of Babel, Jonah and the Whale/Big Fish, The Rainbow and the Promise, The Christmas Story, etc.) are fictional/mythological.

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Wed, 08-10-2005 - 7:24am

Do I believe that Objective Scientific and Mathmatical Truth exists? Yes.

Do I believe that Objective, Absolute Christian Truth exists? No.

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