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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iVillage Member
Registered: 07-21-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 5:37pm
You do realize that you just blasted a longtime working mom for sitting home on her prissy little ass all day, don't you?

Maybe you haven't quite figured out how this board works yet.

At any rate, I'm probably not the first one to clue you in.

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Registered: 10-18-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 5:47pm
The AVERAGE childcare worker (includes cooks, drivers, etc as well as teachers) is $6.75 for Oklahoma.

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: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 5:48pm
You can be pregnant while in the military but you cannot enlist while pregnant. Nor can you be pregnant in basic. You are given a pregnancy test before you leave for basic. If you do turn up pregnant in basic (we had a couple of airman in my basic training flight that that happened to because they were not far enough along when they took the test to get a positive result) then you are discharged but can enlist again after the end of the pregnancy.
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-21-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 5:49pm
Was the blowhard's name Dr. Laura?
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 5:49pm
California is a big state. It's impossible to make a statement like that because "California" weather is complete dependent on the area of the state you live in.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:03pm
"The school my child attends just doesn't put them out unless it's like 70 or above." Very sorry to hear that. I doubt very much you and your child would be so frail and sickly if you weren't indoors where all the germs are so much of the time. (You do realize germs cause colds, don't you?)

(Or maybe it's not germs, it's the cold, and you and DD are sick every time you go outside in the cold because you're not wearing boots, LOL!)

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-12-2002
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:08pm
Ummm...there is a difference between retaining someone who is pregnant and ACCEPTING someone who is pregnant.

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

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:14pm
Melissa:

If you will note the recruiter did not know I was pregnant for that matter I didn't know I was pregnant. And I hadn't signed which means I hadn't committed myself. I did not say I was in the millitary.
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:16pm
Sure if you want it to be lol
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:16pm
Wait wait wait. You would wear a jacket in June in Missouri but not snow boots in January in NYC?

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