How will the economy affect WOH/SAH?

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How will the economy affect WOH/SAH?
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Wed, 02-11-2009 - 1:09pm
How do you think the economy will affect decisions by women to stay at home versus work? With so many people losing jobs, do you think more women will be forced back into a job to help out (or take over) family finances? Is SAH parenting

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Sun, 03-22-2009 - 3:29pm
What gives you the idea I'm trying to insult you?
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Sun, 03-22-2009 - 3:31pm
OMG, you are SO totally right, I have never in my life disagreed with ANYONE but you and tinder.
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Sun, 03-22-2009 - 3:48pm

"Why bother if you don't really know until the child is actually

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Sun, 03-22-2009 - 3:51pm
It depends on the kid. Some kids are very flexible and adaptable
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Sun, 03-22-2009 - 3:55pm
If that is what it took.
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Sun, 03-22-2009 - 4:09pm

The only statistic that is 100% is that at one point we will all die.

Statistically moving may not be a good thing but that does not mean that it would be a bad thing for everyone.

I liken it to the children of divorce statistics. Statistically they are at a greater risk for all kind of things (dropping out of school, teen pregnancy, divorces of their own in later life etc). But many children of divorce grow up with none of those issues that they are statiscally more likely to got.

Also many children in intact families do have those issues that they are statistically less likely to have.

That tells me that there is more going on to cause those issues than just divorce.

The problems caused by children moving around a lot could have a lot more to do than just moving.

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Sun, 03-22-2009 - 4:21pm

I haven't been a classroom teacher in an elementary school yet (though I substituted a bit). This fall will be my first year, so I'm unfamiliar with how common or uncommon it is for parents to sit in on classes.

I do know that when I was trying to decided which college to attend, I sat in on classes in each one to get a feel for the environment.

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Registered: 04-22-2005
Sun, 03-22-2009 - 4:40pm
No disrespect taken. I wasn't talking about making a mistake about a school and getting a do-over. I was referring to the fact that sometimes circumstances arise in life (moving, recognizing a child's unique learning style, etc) that can lead to the decision to switch schools, and it may or may not have anything to do with the quality of the school. I think of it as similar to going on tours of traditional daycare/preschool facilities. I may think that one is great, and it is, and so I enroll my son in a safe and appropriate facility (no mistake made), but then I might later discover that my son reacts much better to a Montessori-style approach and switch.
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Sun, 03-22-2009 - 4:55pm

<< made dresses out of garbage bags instead of shopped retail>>

I've done that, but it was a Halloween costume.

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Sun, 03-22-2009 - 4:58pm

Yes, I think that is one of the most common reasons, other than purely practical ones like a move, for switching schools.

I am still happy that we resisted the pressure to put out kid in "the" school. It is supposed to be the greatest in every way, but it did not appeal to me at all. In 20/20 hindsight it was absolutely the right decision, but it was a hard one to make at the time.

At another school, everything sounded great until I went to visit with the 6th grade language arts teacher (although she did not have a class when I visited). She was very enthusiastic and talked about how her class read 10 (not sure about the exact number, but it was in that neighborhood) novels a year. It sounded very impressive until I asked to see some examples. The only books in her room were piles of cheap kid novels. I asked if they read any classics. She asked, "like what?" So I mentioned C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Twain and a few others. She looked very dubious and explained that she had never had a reader advanced enough to read such books. It is not something that would have emerged unless I had visited with her.

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