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: 03-25-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:48am
We've had some strange ones, but I think this one really takes the prize, doncha think?
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Registered: 08-16-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:52am
Actually at least for the schools my daughter has attended there hasn't been much of a "dress code". Yes there are limits, no midriff bearing tops, nothing see through without a tank top or camissole underneath no bathing suits for both boys and girls and no tee shirts/sweatshirts with inflamatory logs on them for either. For the boys, IF they wear the excessivaly baggy slacks they must wear shorts or appropriate boxers underneath OVER their underwear.

As far as footwear: When we lived in Central New York whether the children went outside in the winter or not was left up to the parents. If the parent sent snow boots to school the child would be able to go outdoors. If no snowboots were sent the child went to the gym during recesses. Alot of parents sent snowboots at the beginning of the school year to be stored all year in the child's locker so that he/she could decide IF and when they want to go outside. Where I now live in California the only time anyone dons snowboots is when they have driving the 2 hours into the Sierras during the winter and are in the snow because here it just doesn't snow. Footwear is sneakers, loafers, flip flops and whatever else they can get on their feet that will keep them dry when it rains. Actually during the summer most of the kids wear flip flops...I hears one mother remark that her daughter only spent $100.00 on shoes for the summer, that was for a wardrobe of flip flops. LOL. My daughter owns about 5 pair herself along with her sneakers and Doc Martin knock offs.
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Registered: 08-16-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:55am
Where I lived in Central New York when the plow went through it we usually got an extra 4 feet in our driveway because we were on a curve of the street...which is WHY I had to go out and clear the driveway TWICE so I could get my car out to go to work...
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Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:59am

Awesome post, ITA

 

Linda - wife, mother, grandmum                     &nb

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 12:02pm
Excuse me but you cannot dictate who someone does or does not post to. You can choose to not post here, or you can put the person on ignore if their posts bother you so much. But you dont get to choose who responds to your posts. And I didnt see any personal attacks. Maybe you should get a thicker skin or just stay off the debate boards.

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Dj

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Registered: 10-11-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 12:44pm
Okay embarASSing tourist moment. Drove up to Tahoe to attend a February wedding with my DH (then boyfriend) I had on the cutest pair of black loafers with a 3" heel. Fell smack on my BUTT after slipping on the ice walking to our rented cottage. Needless to say a pair of snow boots would have been a warmer and better choice, but darn I looked good!

I learned my lesson, I never wear ANYTHING but boots if we are going near the snow.

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Registered: 10-11-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 12:53pm
BAWAHAWHHAWHAWWHWHAHWH...Damn...damn...damn...I just drowned my screen AND keyboard in coffee!!!!!!!!!!!

PS you have wayyyyy to much time on your hands!!!!!! BAWAWHAHHAHWHAWHWAHW!!!!!!ROFLMAO!!!!

Ouch, ouch my sides are starting to hurt!!BAWHWAHWHAHWH!!!!!

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Registered: 10-11-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 12:58pm
BWAHAHAHAHA...I am still in pain from the last post!!!!!
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Registered: 03-25-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 1:13pm
<> I'll second that.
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Registered: 08-29-2002
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 1:13pm
Aaaaw, that just made my day! And just how did you know that I was a rampant Dr. Seuss fan? I still have my original set from the 1960s and read them to the kids (and the original Grinch cartoon, baaah humbug to the new version :-)).


Laura

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