If you hadn't had kids...

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Registered: 04-23-2004
If you hadn't had kids...
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Thu, 05-20-2004 - 10:34pm
And your dh made enough $$ to support both of you comfortably, do you think you would be working?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 05-26-2004 - 4:50pm
Sure! That's the beauty of Christian servanthood. You can be my minion and I can still be yours!
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Registered: 03-25-2003
Wed, 05-26-2004 - 4:51pm
Did you or did you not write that you put juice in your dd's sippy cup when she attempted it for the first time?

Hugs,

Bridget & Ethan (5)

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Wed, 05-26-2004 - 4:54pm
Nope.

Hugs,

Bridget & Ethan (5)

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Registered: 10-18-2003
Wed, 05-26-2004 - 5:10pm

Any parent can be neglectful and inferior. There are bad SAH parents. There are bad WOH parents. There are bad WAH parents. A bad parent is a bad parent; whether they WOH or SAH really doens't have squat to do with hit.

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Registered: 10-18-2003
Wed, 05-26-2004 - 5:12pm

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Guess its okay for school to provide that respite, but not okay for a paying job to do so. Whatever.

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Wed, 05-26-2004 - 5:14pm
"I guess what I'm saying is I just don't get the condesending tone that always appears to come across in your posts. . .as if you are supermomma and your child is somehow going to turn out better than the rest of the world's children for it. . ."

Just because my views are backed by research doesn't mean that I'm supermomma LOL. And actually yes, I do think my dd *will* turn out well (if not better) based on the fact that we made optimal parenting choices. For example, yes I do think my dd will turn out to be healthier, brighter, and have better tooth and jaw development than formula fed children based on the research I have read.

However, every choice I made wasn't necessarily optimal. For instance, I opted for an epidural rather than a natural birth. And yet, I absolutely acknoweledge that this was NOT the most optimal option available to me. Would it make any sense for me to argue and claim that having an epidural makes no difference at all?

It wouldn't, I've read the research, so has everyone else. Why not just accept things for what they are? *I* can and do. Some things are optimal and some things are not Period. There'e really no reason to argue about what's best, because underneath it all, people know what is best and what isn't. Why claim that something doesn't really make a difference when everyone knows good and well that it does?

I don't know how many times I've argued with someone who claims that there is no difference between bm and formula. Are they just trying to be stupid on purpose? Of course there is a huge difference between the two. Just because I point out what is best, doesn't make me a bad person. I think it's more about people not wanting to hear the truth, or being insecure about what the research actually has to say. Again, just because I point out the truth based on research doesn't mean that I'm a bad person. I had an epidural. I know the truth about the research. What good would it do for me try to lie to myslef and claim that it doesn't make a differnce? What good would it do for me to try to say it was optimal *for me* when it simply wasn't?

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Wed, 05-26-2004 - 5:16pm
"Unless her nanny is smuggling sippy cups into her home without her knowledge, I'm pretty sure she WOULD know if her kids were using them or not!"

It wasn't a question of whether they were *using* them, it was a matter of whether they carryied them around during the day.


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Registered: 12-10-2003
Wed, 05-26-2004 - 5:20pm
Nah.....nothing that extreme. You just don't get the "I am the best mommy" badge to wear. And you are disqualified from any further Mommy Olympic games. LOL
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Registered: 03-31-2003
Wed, 05-26-2004 - 5:30pm
"I am not as up on the Old Testament as I should be...can you point out where Christians sacrificed humans and animals to atone for their sins?"

Prior to the *human sacrifice* of Christ (which took away the *need* to use *animal sacrifice or burnt offerings* to atone for/take away sin), *burnt offerings or animal sacrifice* was used to atone for/take away sin.

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Registered: 03-29-2003
Wed, 05-26-2004 - 5:44pm
except that your the only one who is touting YOUR choices as THE MOST SUPERIOR choices of all parents everywhere -- IRL and here on this board. That comes through loud AND clear in your posts. In fact, NOWHERE have you EVER made allowances for anyone doing anything their way -- and that way being "right".

eileen

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