# of kids=total income?

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# of kids=total income?
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Tue, 07-24-2007 - 10:26pm

How did your household income/potential income influence the number of children in your family? Did you and dh stop at a certain number of kids because you wanted to be able to provide certain things for each child?

Robin

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Fri, 07-27-2007 - 2:20pm

I send Liza to a Catholic School for many reasons -- our city has fairly good elementary schools, disastrous middle schools and good high schools - but they are HUGE and liza is the kind of girl who can get easily lost in that shuffle. AT her tiny school she's really been able to blossom and grow and the emphasis on showing respect to one another, good behavior, accepting responsibility etc.. has been very good for her as well. I enjoy also that her school does alot of outreach to recent Somali refugees and other african refugess in the form of generous scholarships so Liza is making friends from other cultures which is wonderful. I'm fairly sure Ill keep her in parochial school through middle school but the public high schools here are quite good so she could go to public high school -- but that's six years away so i don't have to make a decision for a while!

I also chose to send her to a private school so that her school would not depend on her dad's or my address-- if one or both of us moved she could still go there and that's important to us.

 

Yes. We. Did.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 2:20pm

<<Our school system is very good and there is no reason to have to send a child to private school.>>


Actually I don't have to send my children to a private school, I choose to.

PumpkinAngel

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Fri, 07-27-2007 - 2:22pm
You're here so much I'm suprised you even leave the house!
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Fri, 07-27-2007 - 2:25pm

We have one of the best children's hospitals in the country....about a 20 minute drive from home.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 07-26-2007
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 2:26pm
Exactly.
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Registered: 07-27-2007
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 2:27pm
This poster is a homeschooler?
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Registered: 07-27-2007
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 2:29pm
"The sun, the sun" said in my best Tatoo voice.
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Fri, 07-27-2007 - 2:30pm
Don't know if you have been here awhile but most people, especially PKA ALWAYS want a link to prove something AND I would think it would be something you are familiar with, not something you just happened to fall upon and try and use for an example because she thought this was in "my area".
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Registered: 07-27-2007
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 2:30pm
If there's a public school child in the next room, do you shiver?
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 07-27-2007 - 2:31pm
Why do I feel like I"m in a David Lynch movie all the sudden. Fellini even...

 

Yes. We. Did.

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