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: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:15pm
No, what you said was,

"Guess what I live right next to Michigan and tons of us do not have boots."

If you live right next to a state then that means that your state borders it. So any assumptions were made based on your false posts.

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-08-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:16pm
Design I didn't say I was from Ohio. I said Ohio was under one of the states under Michigan as well Kentucky, Tenn, Georgia, Florida even Indiana. I didn't say that again you all assume way too much.
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Registered: 12-08-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:21pm
Design I didn't say where I was from I said I was southern big difference. I know agreat deal about different states so that isn't going to help you. If you noted I said where I live doesn't have snow presently and what we have been getting is dustings. It is cold. We do get snow not much.

And so far the folks here haven't put on their boots. They don't even put them on in the rain however; you ran with your own interpretation of my posts. Which I was showing my mother since she is here and she laughed at you all.

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-08-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:22pm
The key is to be evasive Horseyme it's a public message board and I am not spouting where I live. They should of been clued in but I guess all that cold and snow made them think more slowly.
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-08-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:25pm
No I have a life and it's Christmas and I did explain I answered Texigan's but didn't say where I was actually I answered it explaining what was under Michigan which means you all aren't going to get where I am .

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Registered: 12-08-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:27pm
Design I didn't say I lived in OHIO. And I am southern through and through. So there you go again assuming your making false statements. Which I am going to view as a personal attack thanks for playing bye bye.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:31pm
Ahhhh...the web we weave.........What she needs to do is a better job of keeping her story straight. LOL
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Registered: 12-08-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:32pm
Design as far as I know the following is the south unless you have rewritten history.Texas, Alabama, Louisanna, Georgia, Ark, KY, Georgia, Tenn, the Carolinas, Virgina, West Virgina, Florida. And I didn't say I lived in Ohio I said it borders Michigan along with Indiana. And I said Kentucky and Indiana and Ohio all border near the Indiana stateline near the casinos. Notice not one time there did I mention I lived in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana or Kentucky for that matter?


Maybe Florida isn't the only state we have to worry about literacy in.

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-08-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:36pm
Susan since you lived in Ohio did you think Kentucky was south. And since you lived in Ohio you did know that Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio all meet right down near the casinos. By the way some of these folks must not travel or live in condo's or have home communties where the drives must be kept free of snow and such. And have streets cleared. Cause we certainly do we pay it in our maintence fees. As well we pay for the landscapers. But god forbid.

Also Susan did you live in Northern OHIO? That might explain all the snow. I do know that they get snow more so then the southern part. Now watch Design with run with this cause god forbid I might have family living or going to school there that I speak and visit. And I didn't wear boots to any of these visits.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-29-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:40pm
StereoTypes R Us came out with their Holiday Catalogue, didn't they? ROFLOL! I'll just make this short and sweet.

1. morals and values do start at home -- given good parents. nothing about woh prevents one from teaching these to their children.

2. strangers are not, did not, have not, will not be raising my kids. that is MY job.

3. children can be in FT dc/preschool and they are STILL the parents TOP priority. working does not change any of that.

no re-evaluating of priorities needed.

eileen

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