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Rock and a Hard Place
| Thu, 11-20-2003 - 10:45am |
There's something on this board that has been bothering me, and I hope I can articulate it.
| Thu, 11-20-2003 - 10:45am |
There's something on this board that has been bothering me, and I hope I can articulate it.
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As a financial advisor, I do advocate living on one income - or being able to that is. Relying on 2 incomes is what gets many people into trouble. Adequate insurance to cover disaster is another thing that I advocate. If 2 income families can adjust to living on one income, they will most certainly build and accumulate wealth. I strongly advocate for living far beneath one's means.
Personally, I don't think my income would put us into a higher tax bracket. We have a great house, two new cars and everything the kids need at this point. I just don't see how it would benefit my kids for me to go to work every day and to put them in the care of another full time.
What difference does it make what other parents do in my neighborhood? What matters is what I give my children not that some other mother doesn't read to her kids enough. My kids didn't even meet these non readers until they started kindergarten and then only saw them in school. Sorry, but I don't see what they have to do with my kids. This is a reflection on those mothers, not the schools or my kids. Both of my kids were at the top of the class, actually, dd#2 is the top of the class, with regard to reading readiness. Why some other child isn't, you'll have to take up with their mother.
As I have said, the schools are good here, the neighborhood safe, the parks usable and the city provides a lot in the way of enrichment activities. All of that has nothing to do with my neighbors not reading enough to their kids. All in all, this is a pretty desirable place to live. So much so that they're building McMansions on main boulevards and small interior lots. Sorry, but I don't see what whether or not another parent feels reading to pre-schoolers has to do with my SES. Is how much you read to a child now a determinant of SES? It would have to be for you to proclaim that I live in a lower class neighborhood based on the fact that many kids enter k having little in the way of knowledge about books.
Edited 11/25/2003 5:25:57 AM ET by cyndiluwhoagain
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