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| Fri, 12-12-2003 - 8:31pm |
I just have to ask those working moms....How do you do it?????
I am a Step-mom to two boys ages 6 and 9. I have a three year old that has been in minimal nursery school since he was one. He only goes three days a week for a couple of hours.
My step-sons BM (birth mother) just had a baby with her BF and this is her schedule:
She drops my step-sons at school to the morning-care program at 7:15AM (school starts at 8:45AM). She then drives her three month old baby to an in-home sitter that has five or six other kids at 7:45AM and then goes to work. She picks the baby up at 6:00PM and then she picks my SS up from after-care at 6:15PM (their school is over at 3:10PM). So my ss's are at school each day for 11 hours and the three month old baby is at a sitters for 10 hours each day!
Doesn't that seem like a lot! I just don't understand this. I offered to watch my SS's and she let me for two weeks and then got mad at my DH and put them back in the scholl child care program.
Why would you bother having children if someone else is going to raise them for you?

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Go right ahead and wear your ridiculous shoes. Enjoy your frostbite. At least once your feet are amputated, you don't have to worry about the stench of gangrene.
Laura
When I'm 50, I'm going to be glad I have my kids college educations paid for. When I'm 70, I'm going to be glad I'm not a financial burden on my kids. No, I won't regret the time my kids spend in dc. As my grandmother used to say "Time passes anyway". My kids will grow up regardless of what I do. I can't see how I'll have more memories at 50 if I SAH than I have now and even if I did, what good will memories do me when my kids college tuition needs to be paid or I become ill and don't have enough to retire on? Whan I'm 55, I will have both memories and financial security and I will be forever grateful to our dcp for being a wonderful addition to all of our lives. Had I not WOH my kids would have missed out on knowing someone they have come to love dearly. How could I ever regret that?
I can't believe the nerve of the parents judging the parents that aren't lucky enough to have the money to stay at home and raise our children. Some of us have to help our partners to acheive what we want in life. Yet you sit at your desks at home with your children and judge the parents that are out making a living and doing the best that they can for their kids. Whats the difference between daycare and school? At least with daycare you get to choose who influences you children and who is installing the same values that you are. Do you think it is easy to drop you children off and go to work? Do you think we enjoy this? Or it's a way out of being the parent. Who ever started this has just a little to much time on there hands, it must be nice..... By the way, just a little bit of advise.The next time you judge us parents, why don't you go out into the work force and see how it is before you sit your prissy little ass down and judge us. We love our children just as much as you do, if not even more for having to leave them and go to work every damn day of the week.
You much have us confused with a different part of the country.
Edited 2/6/2009 10:40 am ET by pumpkinangel
Edited 3/25/2009 12:25 pm ET by pumpkinangel
PumpkinAngel
My children have learned about life through both good and bad friendships. The only forbidding I did was when my oldest daughter wanted to date one of the high school's drug dealers.
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