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 can't speak for suzy here, but it isn't always about what's wrong with the school system but what's right bout the alternatives.
We put dd in a charter school for K and 1st. We had many people say "Why don't you like the public system?" or "What's wrong with sending her to public school?" Our answer was always "Nothing. It isn't about the public school being bad, but about this particular charter school being better."
For us, we had several options: public school, 2-3 charter schools, Catholic school or homeschool. We looked at ALL the options and the charter school we chose was simply the best option. So that's where we sent her. She would have been fine in any of the schools. There wasn't anything *wrong* with any of them. But the charter school was the *best* of the lot. For some people, that kind of analysis leads to choosing homeschooling.
Jennie
<<...unless you have a child who is very, very different than most children they will do well in whatever education system they are put into.>>
You don't mean that, do you?
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