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: 08-16-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 7:27pm
Maybe the kind of "snow" she is refering to is the kind you snort up your nose?
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Registered: 03-25-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 7:29pm
Guess you don't need boots for that kind, huh???
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-16-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 7:30pm
And it does snow in Ohio. but let's not tell her that LMAO
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Registered: 08-16-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 7:32pm
ok one pair for Larunemom2boys...anyone else while I'm here?
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Registered: 08-16-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 7:33pm
Not that I know of but she will probably tell me I'm wrong...
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 7:34pm

and none are down south, LoL.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 7:35pm

Ahem...cough, cough, cough. I am from Tennessee and I think I am worth a visit. Plus, you have not truly lived until you experience a UT football game.

"I do not want to be a princess! I want to be myself"

Mallory (age 3)

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Registered: 07-15-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 7:36pm
First of all, instilling morals and good values should always start at home no matter how young the child is. Next, someone else shouldn't have to raise your children for you. A responsible and caring parent will schedule his/her life around the child's not vise versa. When you have children they become number one. Your boyfriend (sometimes even husband), job, etc. come second. If your boss doesn't understand that then it's time to be a resonsible parent and find a new job. If strangers are raising your children then that means you as a parent are not doing the job you took on when you had them. Children are full-time work eventhough it may not mean having then around on a full-time basis. Baby-sitters, pre-schools, etc. are a good start for a child but if that's where they are at all day then the parent needs to re-evaluate his/her priorities.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 7:37pm
I wonder if the state of Ohio know that she considers them a southern state?

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 7:37pm

I am trying so hard not to get invovled and I can't stand it any longer. Where is Mappers when you need her? She lives in Louisville and trust me it snows there. I grew up in Owensboro and it snows there every winter. One winter they had to call the National Guard in after a blizzard.


It even snows in TN. Last year, we had 7 inches of snow in Nashville which is quite alot for us. I did not have snow boots and my feet were very, very cold. I had snow boots when I lived in KY..

"I can be changed by what happens to me but I refuse to be reduced by it"

"I do not want to be a princess! I want to be myself"

Mallory (age 3)

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