How do you do it?

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Registered: 12-07-2003
How do you do it?
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Fri, 12-12-2003 - 8:31pm
I hope I don't start a big controversy, but this is a debate board right?

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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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 4:31pm
Laura you are in Sweden not America and you might want to alert our school system to that cause they don't send the children out in cold weather. They have indoor facilities the children play in.

In fact despite some of you some of the children that do play out in the colder weather here their parents are thought to be negligent and admonished by neighbors and such. I don't care as long as it's not my child live and let live.
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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 4:41pm
Guess what apparently our school system or state doesn't feel that way cause when i drop my child off they have them go inside during winter months and play inside. And if they didn't I find a school that did that very thing. And I am fine more than fine with the education my child is receiving. She has been accepted into a great program for next year. I am fine with it.

Look if you want your children out in 50 below then fine put them out there. I am just saying mine won't be out there and I am not going to support a school or any other type of facility that would encourage children to be out in cold weather all the time. I see no problem if they want to build a snow man or go sled riding if there is enough snow to do it or go skiing. However; she doesn't like to participate in those things much. She prefers other things.

And I really don't care what your kids do or don't do just as you don't really care what my child does or doesn't do.

Where we live doesn't necessitate boots so get off the boot issue. Gestapo.

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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 4:44pm
One more thing HOLLIE:

My child didn't go to daycare. I didn't fall into the category of stay at home or working I did both and then some. She did go to preschool and I was there with her.
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Registered: 10-18-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 5:04pm

Is that a Hawaii Five-O reference?

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Registered: 10-18-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 5:06pm
Boots? I was talking about boots? Damn. I thought I was talking about the importance and benefit of children playing outside.

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 5:08pm
Blizzard. Blizzards happen. Even in NYC. But they hadn't happened yet as of Thanksgiving. And it's not just the sheer inches of snow (which can be 12-24 as easily as they can be 1-2), but also the fact that the sidewalks narrow down to a sliver of cleaned- off part, with walls of snow on either side. And you WILL be squeezed into one of these walls at some point.
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Registered: 03-25-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 5:18pm
No, colds are caused by viruses, not by being outside. In fact, they are more prevalent in the winter when people are cooped up inside more. So if you want your kids to be healthier, get them outside once in a while.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 5:26pm
But all the action's on the "flannel PJ and long undies debate" board, LOL!
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 5:35pm
BWAHAHAHA! Good one! I know I never thought I'd hear the day when "SpongeBob" and "sexual" appear in the same sentence!
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Registered: 12-12-2002
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 5:35pm
Here in Oklahoma, I have yet to find a daycare worker who makes more than $6-7 per hour.

Okmrsmommy-36, CPmom to DD-16 and DS-14

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