SAH doesn't support change,

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Registered: 05-08-2003
SAH doesn't support change,
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Sat, 08-26-2006 - 4:58pm

"SAH doesn't support change, it supports going backwards to the 1950's,"

Statement in a post below.

I wholeheartedly disagree. To me, SAH is a choice. How is that going back to the 1950s, when a lot of women didn't have much of a choice.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 12:08pm
Where's the evidence? And does the evidence show incentive programs that are practiced in "moderation"?
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 12:11pm
And it's awfully bizarre when someone compares children to dogs.
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Registered: 06-02-2003
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 12:12pm
Let's be clear that Ihaven't used anything to motivate him at home. It's not like I'm paying him to read. The program through school (which by the way is not a plastic anything or pizza anything...it is the t-shirt w/the decals as I stated earlier) is the only motivator he gets. And sometimes it was enough to get him to read a few more because they are all interested in wearing their shirts on fridays and seeing how many of the decals they have. I got him books that were interesting to him, but he still didn't want to take the time to sit and read them. Now he does. Mission accomplished (so far)
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Registered: 11-12-2003
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 12:13pm

Okey dokey :) So, you're slacking off now, right? (There's a time for everything!)

BTW, what exactly IS there in high school that is harder than Sr. AP classes? I can't even think of anything that could have been harder than AP Physics and AP Calculus.

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Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 12:15pm

"I've picked up enough of this cheap plastic junk out of the rain gutters to have to worry about the intelligence of the average 8 year old. "

Do you regularly go around picking junk out of rain gutters?

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Registered: 06-02-2003
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 12:15pm
I agree. I would just like to do whatever I can to get interested in it while he's young, because I think the younger you start to enjoy it and see value in it and take time out to do it, the better chance you have to enjoy it when you are grown and busy.
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Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 12:19pm
Did you forget the question? I have answered everyone of your questions.
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-12-2003
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 12:21pm
I know it was a difficult connection to make, but since she said she lives a block from the school, I would imagine she's picking them up out of her OWN rain gutters. Unless you think it's weird to clean up your own property?
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Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 12:22pm

The companies still in business gives me a clue as to how big of a deal that junk is to children.

If there was no demand for it, the businesses wouldn't be in business.

Got it?

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Registered: 01-15-2006
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 12:23pm
are you saying attendance awards discriminate against the less healthy? nope. they're designed to prove (my) child the deserving child of an honor over the child who habitually shows up late or absent for *unexcused* reasons. and while that is no fault of the child,the family does get the hint someway,somehow even if school district 1 police officer has to get involved!!

 

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