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: 11-12-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 4:14pm
FOR YOUR INFORMATION, Had you not noticed that she was bashing parents for putting their kids in daycare. Now if she is a long time working mom then why is she bashing us? Where did her kids go while she was working? And for your information, no one else got as mouthy with me as you, some working parents understand exactly how we feel. Do you have to work? Or do you get to be one of the lucky ones that get to stay home with their children? It seems to me your the only one with a problem about working parents, everyone else was worried about weather or not their kids were wearing boots in the cold weather or not. So good luck, and Merry Christmas.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 4:15pm
Why am I getting the feeling this is the same person with a different username.....speaking of ducks. And if we are a bunch of hens, what exactly does that make you? Considering that you appear to be doing most of the talking here and most of the flamebaiting.

dj


Edited 12/23/2003 4:17:58 PM ET by djknappsak

Dj

"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 4:28pm
So funny.....I thought the same thing when I read that. But remember *that* poster thought is was chickens that quacked! Maybe they are sisters. The "duck off" part is classic though...LOL
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 5:23pm
I am curious you live right next to Michigan and rarely have snow. The states that border Michigan are Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio and all have lots of snow.
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Registered: 03-29-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 5:39pm
AGAIN, i respectfully submit that YOU HAVE THE WRONG PERSON. I am a wohm, have always been a wohm and have always stood up proudly and hailed the benefits of dc. I've been on this forum for 5+ YEARS -- ask the "old-timers" what my stance is because you sure have gotten ME confused with someone else.

Please, take another look whom you need to post to because i assure you it isn't me. I have NEVER, EVER bashed ANONE EVER for being a sahp OR a wohp. PERIOD.

eileen

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Registered: 12-08-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 5:44pm
Texigan:

We don't have lots of snow at all. Right now we have rain and it was abit above 50 and dropping. We have some snow no doubt but not much as compared to say Blizzards and stuff that we see on television it's relatively warm.

You are forgetting Kentucky?? Bordering Ohio and Indiana. And different parts of these states see different parts of weather. For instance up north they may get colder earlier in August while we down here have still really warm weather. One area may have severe weather while the other doesn't . It just depends upon where you are.

In fact coming from lunch I was checking out feet yep you heard me feet I didn't see one pair of boots on anyone. Even at the bus stops. Even at the stores I went into. I checked at Fridays no boots. I checked when I stopped for hot chocolate at Mc.Donalds no boots.

It just depends upon where you are located an if you are in rural areas or not.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 5:55pm
What do you mean that I am forgetting Kentucky? Kentucky does not border Michigan. Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio border Michigan. You made the statement "Guess what I live right next to Michigan and tons of us do not have boots". If you live right next to Michigan then you must live in one of those states, unless you live in Canada which also borders Michigan.

And even in states where boots are the norm in winter you only generally only see boots when there is actually snow on the ground.

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 5:56pm
Yaaawwwwnnnn! Most of your posts make absolutely no sense, the one I'm replying to being one of the most non-sensical ones so far.

Keep trying, honey, you might actually learn how to debate one of these days.

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 5:58pm
Do you think perhaps you could learn where commas and periods go? Perhaps you can learn to punctuate a sentence before you go any further. It would save everyone here a lot of headaches. But then again, I don't know why I waste my time reading your posts. They are some of the stupidest things I've ever read.
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Tue, 12-23-2003 - 6:02pm
I love the old version with Boris Karloff's voice. I hate the new Jim Carrey version. Also, my favorite Dr. Seuss books were "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish," and "Fox in Sox." That one hurts my cheeks when I read it to the boys! LOL!

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