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: 06-27-1998
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:32pm

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No it was stated that if you went around in their area for any length of time it was possible, and if you didn't care since you obviously know their conditions much better than they, then okay.


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What you don't seem to be getting, in some areas of the country boots are NEEDED.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:35pm
"60 and below is ridiculous". SAY WHAT? Plainly you have never lived in that huge part of the country where weather can dip below the 60's starting in late September and snow is measured in feet, as well as inches. I shudder to think that our many children would be kept inside starting from three weeks into the school semester until late March. (And we had a blizzard in April, too.) Schools might as well not bother building playgrounds since they would only get about 3 or 4 weeks worth of use the entire school year.

"We were raised that way." You were raised in an extremely warm part of the U.S., people who were raised farther north have no such rules- but we do have snow boots. Also, some of the people with kids playing in what you consider too-cold weather may be transplanted northerners who are experiencing their first southern "winter" (and it will be in quotes for a transplanted northerner)and can't believe it's still in the 40's.

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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:38pm
First off I wouldn't be NYC in January to begin with. NYC is nice for people who like NYC :) It has many wonderous things. That being said I prefer the south. Second off no boots I hate them wouldn't wear them here. Wouldn't wear them there. Wouldn't wear then even if you tied me up in the air. Now would I wear a pair of shoes yep and so some of these posters lose cause I can choose. And my shoes keep my feet covered, keep my feet sweet and they don't knock me off my feet and alow me to walk down the street.

And yes it was windy and not hot in Missouri that breezy cold day at the Arch that didn't show any signs of March. However; we were passing through and we caught a brew in Kansas without my sister we hit a twister ( tornado) Which kept us driving to the Canyon and we didn't get to see Mark OBannon.


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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:41pm
An you are picking on Tennessee because? Oprah is from Tenn and she wears boots we will sacrifice her to you. We should write Oprah and tell her to be the Boot Goddess of Tenn.
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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:44pm
Well just filling you Yankees in on what is going on down south.b
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Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:49pm
What do you want my shoes to do. They are to perform a function cover my feet as I get from point a to point b and so far they have served me well not only my ADIDAS and AVIA's but my other shoes as well. So I think the shoemaker and the elves did there job.

Check out Amy Grant and how she got married. NO SHOES. Julia Roberts who lives in NYC when she got married to Lyle Lovett no shoes. NO shoes :)

However; my child has shoes and wears them to school and snow isn't her bag. What is her bag is doing things she likes to do such as playing her instruments and reading and doing school work and that sort of thing.

We have indoor soccer fields. Indoor roller rinks, Indoor icerinks. We will survive we even have skiing with fake snow and snowboarding with fake snow :) Kewl beans.

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Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:49pm

Please try and follow this highly controversial thread!


Does anyone get the feeling the op123 has a sister here?

PumpkinAngel

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:50pm
I was thinking perhaps we can create a board of bossy hens trying to tell someone what type of shoes or boots to wear. Are you going to be the leader?b
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:54pm
I know I totally don't get that one.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 6:59pm
There is a big difference between 50 below and 68 degrees.

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