INFANTS IN DAYCARE?

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Registered: 06-08-2008
INFANTS IN DAYCARE?
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Wed, 11-26-2008 - 12:20am

OK, remember this is a debate board, and I am going to play devil's advocate here, so please let's play nice.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 12-18-2008 - 3:08am
I know! You have been playing Sims.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 12-18-2008 - 3:15am
Right and strictly speaking all budgets are hypothetical, since they are projections.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 12-18-2008 - 3:19am
LOL. I got vista this year, because my college program can only run on explorer. I. HATE. MICROSOFT.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 12-18-2008 - 5:36am
Many of my objections are completely silly, like it offends me that when it boots up it has this ugly bar that says "© Microsoft Corp" underneath with the pixels showing, as if it is 1982 or something. Also, having never used windows before in my life, it is sometimes difficult for me to navigate it.
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Registered: 11-20-2003
Thu, 12-18-2008 - 7:34am

>>>I don't practice religion, I don't go to church, and I choose not to talk about it if I can.

Well you haven't tried all that hard to not talk about since in the post I reference here you tried to prove your point by citing some imagined correlation between parents buying too many toys and somehow children not being 'taught that christmas is about Christ'.

http://messageboards.ivillage.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=iv-pssahwoh&msg=18973.463

It was an unsubstantiated (and quite confusingly written) debate point and I called you on it.

As to the debt discussion, may I mention post 18973.435:

"I had loans and had to drop out, sometimes life sucks. Starting life in debt teaches you the value of your degree and education. It teaches you what it is worth."

While you've recently updated your arguments to restrict your hypothetical college plans for your daughter (hey guys, see how I got that hypothetical in there???) to only in Europe, that doesn't eliminate the fact that you used this statement about debt as a rationale from an earlier part of the thread about why it would be acceptable/even somehow positive for a parent to not choose to pay towards college even if they could because of what the massive debt would 'teach' a child. I don't care what your daughter's plans might be in 2 decades. It's *your* points I am debating.


iVillage Member
Registered: 07-17-2007
Thu, 12-18-2008 - 7:44am
The plural of anecdotal is not data.
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-17-2007
Thu, 12-18-2008 - 7:48am
The friends we have in mixed language households generally talk to their children in their native language. That means, in your case, the mother talks to the kids in English and the Dad talks to the kids in German. Generally, the kids speak to both parents in the language that surrounds them on the outside, but they still can speak and understand the other language.
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-17-2007
Thu, 12-18-2008 - 7:53am
I can't find the original post, but you mentioned your child going to gymnasium,, but you can't predict if she will go to college or not. How can you predict that she will go to gymnasium? As I understand it only 20% of German children go to gymnasium. It is a great deal if you can get in as they fund it so much better than where the 80% of the other children go.
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-17-2003
Thu, 12-18-2008 - 8:08am
You are completely missing the point.
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Registered: 07-23-2003
Thu, 12-18-2008 - 8:11am

I can' imagine that low of a mortgage payment but my house was a little more and once you add taxes and insurance on it would be higher.

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