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: 07-21-2003
Fri, 12-26-2003 - 11:55am
Huh? How the #*ck should I know? Or care?

They must have let you out for the holidays.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 12-26-2003 - 12:01pm
Oh, cool, GOD is posting on the board now. How insightful....or perhaps, I should say inciteful...of you to tell us what millions of people who aren't you are thinking.
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-02-2003
Fri, 12-26-2003 - 2:51pm
And some SAHM's don't want to be bothered raising their children either. Your point is??
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-02-2003
Fri, 12-26-2003 - 2:55pm
Did you post this in the wrong place? I can't seem to figure out what it has to do with my post.
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Registered: 03-28-2003
Fri, 12-26-2003 - 4:57pm
Just for fact-checking reasons, which establishments would those be? nt
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Registered: 03-28-2003
Fri, 12-26-2003 - 4:58pm
Hey, now. You just bite your tongue there, lil' missy. As soon as she finds out we don't wear boots out here, she'll be on the next plane. Ssssshhhhhhhh!! Zipski the lipski.
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-08-2003
Sat, 12-27-2003 - 12:01am
No but maybe if you keep it up they will put you in .b
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-08-2003
Sat, 12-27-2003 - 12:05am
Mygriffen what are you refering to cause your post is like 961?
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-01-2003
Sat, 12-27-2003 - 8:52am
Thanks be to God that you are able to SAH. Some of us are not so lucky. I spend every minute with my children when I am not at work. I don't sit and watch TV, soap operas were made for the SAH mom. I don't spend all day cleaning and cooking, etc. I read, play and do everything with my kids. I have to work. I make the best of it.
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-01-2003
Sat, 12-27-2003 - 9:13am
What a "BOY FRIEND" makes has nothing to do with Child Support. She could have 2-3 boyfriends all making great $$ and it has absoulutely NOTHING to do with how much CS your DH pays. He pays because he IS THE Father.

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