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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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-16-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 10:54pm
WOW Ohio a southern state....hmmmmmm What would that make Canada? Central America?
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-16-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 10:58pm
Maybe she's looking at her atlas upsidedown?
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-08-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 10:59pm
Reis Kentucky is And I didn't say where I was at. And you can be southern and not living in the state where you were born. But I guess you think Kentucky is Northern. But then again I don't expect too much from this board anyway when they bash working mothers, and dictate that people where boots.



iVillage Member
Registered: 12-08-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:01pm
Wear them in Miami they will go over in SouthBeach really well.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-16-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:03pm
I would figure that after yesterday's earthquake she probably figures California no longer exisists LOL either that or I now have beach front property up here just NorthEast of Sacramento.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:03pm
You said that you lived next to Michigan.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:05pm
Yes you did. You said people from MI came to your amusement parks. That's Ohio.
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-08-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:06pm
Kristi:

They have no clue where I live and I am keeping that way. But go Volunteers. And by the way some of these people on here that commented about the boots don't know whether to wind their butts or their watches.

God forbid they think beyond. They assume too much. I was answering that Michigan was up above where I live and it's up above a great many states :) Such as Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia and even Florida.

This whole thing started cause the original poster negated the mother of her step children negligent cause she didn't rush out an buy boots at the first sign of snow. And then I was given the virtues of boots. And parenting by some of these folks who put their children out in 50 degree weather.

I was accused of giving my child a complex cause she,and my family and myself prefer warmer weather and southern states as opposed to the North.

God forbid anyone live where snow is cleared off and salt is put down and taken care of. And god forbid if schools don't put their children out when it's cold.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:10pm
Did you feel anything? We felt it slightly. I personally slept through it because I haven't been feeling well and was napping :)
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Registered: 12-08-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:14pm
Kristi:

I have friends that live in Lousiville, in Lexington, in Sieverville, in Knoxville, in Franklin, in Hendersonville. I have family in Virigina , in Florida and Georgia. I was talking to my mom asking her what she thought of boots. She has an old pair but never wears thems. I might even live in one of those places, but I am not even going to divulge that over a message board. I told them I am southern. Yet they dont' have to know where I live.

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