Militants - are they for real?

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Registered: 04-22-2005
Militants - are they for real?
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Tue, 04-14-2009 - 6:59pm

Someone on another board posted this link.
http://blogs.babycenter.com/celebrities/2009/04/12/dr-laura-says-all-moms-should-stay-at-home/?scid=momstodd_20090414_A:2&pe=2U8vYLf
It's about Dr. Laura saying that all women should be SAHMs until the child is at least 3 years old.

Whether we're talking about working or staying at home, I can't quite wrap my head around what is going on inside the brains of people that apply the phrase "all women should".

Do you think militants are actually serious, or just trying to get a rise out of others?

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 04-20-2009 - 2:39pm
ITA and will even take it one step farther. The very ability to be savvy is itself a matter of luck. I never used to think so. Then I gave birth to an autistic daughter. Autism is, in its essence, the complete and total lack of savvy. This lack of savvy is happening at the neurological level and I have had to come to the sad realization that no amount of educational intervention is going to make my dd savvy. She can learn things, yes. But she will never be savvy. So the very fact of whether you can even be savvy is a matter of luck. One dropped protein here or there (or whatever it is) and savviness is out of the picture.
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Mon, 04-20-2009 - 2:44pm

>>And honestly even as a family who is "stuck in the middle where money can get tight at times" I know that we will survive.

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Registered: 04-22-2005
Mon, 04-20-2009 - 2:47pm

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I just keep thinking about this. I don't know how long it took them to build a nest egg and get married, but to add another 15 years of saving on top of that seems like an awfully long time to wait to start have children. I know about the whole "40 is the new 30" thing, but still, wow that's a long time.

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Registered: 11-22-2000
Mon, 04-20-2009 - 2:54pm

I know.


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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 04-20-2009 - 2:59pm

Yes, it's the smugness I can do without.


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Registered: 04-22-2005
Mon, 04-20-2009 - 3:02pm

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Whoa! That's impressive.

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Registered: 04-22-2005
Mon, 04-20-2009 - 3:07pm
I was a little kid at the time, but I actually remember what you're talking about with the "think yourself well" cancer idea because of the way that I played with my Barbies. I chopped off Barbie's hair because she had cancer, and her doctor told her that the only way to not die from cancer was to be happy. So Barbie was happy, happy, happy until one day at a pool party (in the bathroom sink), Ken pushed her into the pool and it made Barbie angry, so she died.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 04-20-2009 - 3:14pm

"I said being financially savvy or wise has nothing to do with luck. My grandparents were immigrants. They were poor, but my grandmother was incredibly wise with what money they had. That is not luck."


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Registered: 03-27-2003
Mon, 04-20-2009 - 3:22pm
OMG! That's hilarious. Little kids sure do pick up the social messages floating around them. As a little kid, you nailed it. "It made Barbie angr. So she died". I shudder to think that such a message was floating around but it was, and you plucked it out of the air and ran with it.
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Mon, 04-20-2009 - 3:28pm
OMG, you've got me

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