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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Great post.
PumpkinAngel
.....and those area a
PumpkinAngel
The teach Latin in your district in the
PumpkinAngel
Maybe it is a Midwest thing, but Latin isn't big here. Only at the more conservative private academies can you find Latin (and maybe one or two of the public districts.) Most of our suburban school districts do offer either Chinese or Japanese "instead" of Latin. Our school district offers German, French, Spanish, and Chinese. Chinese is taught by native speakers which is pretty cool. So if you are trying to say I live in an inadequate school system because I couldn't find a Latin tutor through school, I assure you I do not. Latin is not a big priority here as it may be on the East coast.
As far as chess goes, you can use the school district's program to play chess and meet teachers but if you want a master chess teacher, and you want the very best, you go outside of the school district. The school district can't afford the more elite chess masters, nor should they pay too much because that makes the afterschool program unaffordable for most. Perhaps using the connections of the school district is a good way to find a great chess teacher but I was disputing that the best were employed by the school district. Our afterschool chess program isn't even run by the school, actually.
And I'm not saying you can't find resources and mentors from school, not at all. I just think it is naive to think that the "best" are there working at school, especially at the elementary level. If I were to look for a mentor for my child, I would look at the schools but I wouldn't necessarily think that the people found at school were going to be the best. I definitely would look at the local university to find teachers, mentors and tutors. So maybe when she wrote schools and I saw "local public elementary school," other people saw "local schools including private schools and universities and such."
once again, what is the difference between 6 hours of optional and 21 hours of optional, and i guess more importantly what is the difference between 21 hours of optional and 21 hours of necessary
Jennie
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