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: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 9:37pm
Hee. Well, I gotta admit, the last winter I was there on business, I was pretty much screaming "tourist" myself, but not because of my footwear. My ex had given me a bright red, Skittles Racing Team jacket for Christmas and I was so broke that year I couldn't afford a wool (dressier) coat, so I figured I'd get by with the jacket--that was before I learned I'd be spending the lion's share of February in Manhattan in the Financial District.

Wanna talk about tourist, try being the ONLY person *not* wearing black.

LOL I stuck out like a sore thumb; as soon as I could afford it, I bought my plain black wool coat :)

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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 9:40pm
No it's called hypothyroidism and yes she gets cold in 60 degree weather. As do I after having radiation for Graves. And we have other autoimmune diseases that coldness and the damp air wrecks havoc on our joints, and muscles.

And thank you we have very good endocrinologist, ears nose and throat, pulomonologist and cardiologist as well neurologist that deal with our disease very well.

As "Suspicious Minds" play in the background.

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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 9:42pm
Nah that is okay I am fine without snow we maybe had a 1 to 2 inches at best even if that. It's more like here today gone tomorrow.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 9:45pm
yeah, right, whatever. NYC streets clear themselves of snow and ice WHILE the snow is falling. There are never EVER piles of snow between the sidewalks and street and slush is verboten. Sure.
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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 9:45pm
Well since you can finish your haiku you will proably need a tissue when we have to say God Bless you. Due to all that freaking snow. By the way our city would shrivel up and close up.

I am fine with our light snow city be even happier if it was 85 all year round :) With sun and air conditioning. And shorts, and capri's However such is life.

bb

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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 9:46pm
Tick thank you :)
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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 9:51pm
Hank:

First off you assume because I shortened the long nick that I was name calling not so. Seond off nothing wrong with being a tourist :) Besides great things happen when you are a tourist. You are excused for alot of the confines that limit locals. You can be expressive.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 9:58pm
gha: Sell it elsewhere; once is a mistake anyone could excuse. You have crossed that line and beyond and I'm not buying that steaming load of bovine excrement.
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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 10:25pm
Hank

Whatever Yankee fly and be free.
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Registered: 08-16-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 12:02am
Ahhh one of those Dr. Laura types? LOL...of course Dr. Laura won't tell you that while her kids were small when she first started out in radio they were in daycare. LOL. In order to get to where she is in radio now she would have had to have started out on the bottom rung and they don't allow little ones running around radio station studios on a regular basis. I have also made it a point to never give much credence to the "experts" on child rearing be it working outside the home or staying home. I even told my own mother to butt out that my daughter was MY child and I'd raise her as I felt was right. All those books that were recommended I never touched. Even the potty training books...of course the pages COULD have been used as toilet paper I guess :-)

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