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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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What is bothersome about CLW's outlook is that because she was utterly bored and miserable at home, she therefore feels there is no value in it. I'm sure if she had had a PT job where she could have done her engineering AND SAH, she would have been much happier.
We all need our outlets -- call them creative or whatever. For some it is scrapbooking (something that would drive me insane), for others it's dickering with an autocad drawing. My colleague is a WAHM and she is an engineer like CLW. She has an MBA and an MS and is quite happy working 15 hours a week for one client and SAH the rest of the time until her children are a little older. She is like CLW, too. Sees everything in terms of numbers. Drives me nuts. But I drive her nuts because I see everything in terms of marketing. :-)
outside_the_box_mom
My parents in essence did this for my brother and me. My father owned a family business in, and thus we grew up in, a district with a terrible school system - he had gone through it when it was ok but it had deteriorated badly. My mother got on the phone and found that one of the next districts over was underpopulated for the size of their school and was willing to take my brother and myself tuition-free if we provided our own transportation. For the next 5 years my mother (in a pinch, my father) drove us the 11 miles to school, drove back, drove 6 miles the other direction to work, drove the 17 miles back to our school to pick us up, then drove us the 11 back home. And much of the time we had school activities that were far enough into the evening that she drove us BACK over and sat in the car for the hour and a half or so that we practiced, then back again. (THAT's my definition of an extremely dedicated parent! With a very high-mileage car, LOL!)
That is why everyone is debating with her.
I really don't think so.
"educational" TV is frowned upon.
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