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| Fri, 12-12-2003 - 8:31pm |
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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Now assuming she doesn't live in some bizarro world which prohibits children from playing outside in all but summer weather, she did what any other normal mom would do and bought them boots.
The only thing more assinine than sending children out to play in the snow with gym shoes would be forcing them to remain indoors all winter. Sheesh!
That would have been a good tirade if you hadn't obviously confused hnim with another poster. She doesn't have "boys", she has a grown son who is well beyond basket weaving.
That was pretty funny.
15 yrs, boy to 3 girls ages 4, 6 & 8. I go to work full time and I also go to school part time. My kids are "raised" by the care givers and the teachers. I make sure those caregivers/teachers know what our home life is about. I also support them both verbally and with my kids. I talk, talk, talk with my kids about what goes on at shcool/daycare. . . they know that I can be a mom and self supporting at the same time. I believe I am giving my kids a good life. My 22 yr old son will tell you I am a damn good mom, who works hard, plays hard, and can show my kids by example how to live life to the fullest, no matter what curves it throws at you.
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