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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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I think in our society women hold some very important jobs that set up role models for our daughters. Nurses, Doctors and such and that is a great thing it allows us to be able to tell our children you can be anything you want to be if you work for it and you plan.
However; I do realize that our judicial system may not concurr with that because some have the idea that women should stay home to raise the children not all but some do. And that becomes a source of a problem
So what is your take Shelia?
I believe we teach our children as well school and experience. Meaning she goes to school but the academics and learning doesn't stop there. She is an avid reader, into music very musch so. She is working on being a doctor. However that is if I can get her away from the drums, fiddle and guitar. and she is thinking saxophone.
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