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: 03-27-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:20pm
You don't HAVE to wear boots if you visit a northern state in winter, but I sure do advise it. The thing about weather-gear is...it really IS geography dependent. What is unnecessary in one part of the country is practically mandatory in another part of the country. If somebody from Minnesota insists that you had better own snowboots by November, then in Minnesota you sure had better. But not in Florida.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:22pm
That's not true. I'm sure there are thousands of people who "live" and "work" in New York and other cold weather/snowstorm cities that would agree with the perception of their "own" cities. And furthermore, they would agree with each other the appropriate clothing worn during a snowstorm.

It's the folks in Tennesee who don't live and work there on a day to day, month to month basis that have the skewed and wrong perception of what the "real" people of those cities do in a snowstorm.

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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:23pm
Susannah :

Oh Susannah don't you cry for me I haven't experienced that snow that deep. :)so I will take your word for it. Glad you like all that . There's another song I think that it's appropriate for this topic. It never snows in LA so Santa don't bring me a sleigh. I will the keys by the door there's no chimney anymore....... Remember where you are so you better bring your car cause there's no snow in La.

LOL. We have dustings and not much snow so I am greatful :) Good to know you all get that much and when people say ahh you all should move here or there I have my reasons now :)
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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:25pm
Needer:

We get sick when we are out in the cold. And I found the opposite to be true. Knock on wood. And by the way children in general are breeders of illness. Hahahahaha my aunt says that and I laugh.b
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:26pm
Again, this is geography dependent. We do not have a monolithic nation-wide weather policy in schools. In the northern states, children own winter coats, boots, mittens and hats and wear them to school every day from late November till sometime in spring. If you live in the northern states it is NOT considered negligent to send kids out in cold weather, but they must be dressed appropriately. A northern school system would never make a policy which kept children inside most of the school year.
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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:26pm
Melissa traveling through Texas stopped in a mall in Oklahoma nice malls.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:27pm
Gym shoe *do not* perform just as well as boots in 0 degree weather with a wind chill of 30 below in wet blizzard like condition snow.

Oooooh you *can* wear them. BUT they will absolutely, without a doubt, not perform as well.

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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:30pm
Design it is a song. I don't live in La I mentioned the areas I spent time in were glorious with warm weather :) I know the whole state isn't like that. My cousins live in Northern and they view it differently.

I am from the south so our weather is pretty mild and the last blizzard was maybe in the 70's.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:32pm
I was thinking more along the lines of "I will tell you how to dress in your state even though I don't live there" debate
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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:32pm
No we have impaired immune systems from disease thank you and it's not germs. And not because of boots.

We don't need boots, we are having a glorious Christmas no snow warm weather Yeah ha.

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