Met a mom last week with 3 kids under 3
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| Sat, 03-25-2006 - 9:59am |
A 2 year old and 17 month old twins. First she accomplished *that* through two surrogates! Wonderful what modern medicine can do.
Anyway, she doesnt work full time, she consults to several companies so is out of the home one full day then a few hours a day on other days. Sometimes for work, sometimes to go to the gym, etc.
She has a full time live in nanny, and two part time nannies. Essentially they always have someone with them and the kids. She feels she needs two to properly care for her three.
I immediately thought of all the comments her lifestyle would elicit from this board.
The day she and I met she had just come from a 2 hour session at the gym, and was then heading off to go do some shopping.
BTW, she's a complete rock star in industry, having 'retired' a year ago after a 30 year career that took her right up to the top of corporate America so she's definetly *earned* her right to do whatever the heck she wants.
But anyway, she feels she is a super hands on mom. I was curious what others would think?
MM

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Jennie
I agree
PumpkinAngel
It isn't shades of gray. How do you not see that there is a huge difference between spending 20-40hrs a week somewhere and spending 6 hrs a week somewhere? The parental involvement requirement is HUGE--there is almost always at least one parent in the classroom of DS's preschool and it is a very big deal to DS when it is my turn to be parent helper. Do you not see a difference in a classroom that has parents helping vs. a classroom w/no parents helping? Moreover, the schedules of the programs are extremely different, as there is considerably more "programming" in the 12 hr class vs. the 3 hr class.
Six hours of optional vs 40 hrs of necessity. How on earth is that a shade of gray?
i disagree....i'm not talking about kids that get caught up in some moment of fun. i'm talking about kids that use garbage language, look for trouble and poke fun in the form of insults at others ON A REGULAR BASIS.
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