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,"

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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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Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 12:38pm

Well, not knowing anything about her life, maybe I thought she walked her children to school? Can you see how I could think that?

Or must we continue this game of pretend intellectual superiority on your part?

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Registered: 11-12-2003
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 12:38pm
She can't be, because she said her kids didn't get perfect attendance last year, and I highly doubt her kids would ever have unexcused absences, given how venemous she is about the subject.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 12:39pm
The best book I have ever rad on the subject is Alfie Kohn's "Punished by Rewards." Here's a link to an article that kind of sums up the arguments in the book: <http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/ngrp.htm>
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 12:47pm
Wow. Your kids think that getting to learn extra stuff and not getting public recognition for it is working for "absolutely nothing?" That's EXACTLY the kind of attitude I am trying to avoid with my kids!!!! No wonder we see the issue differently!
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Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 12:48pm
So, no evidence? Just a professor(?) with an excuse to bash Newt Gingrich.
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Registered: 11-12-2003
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 12:49pm
It's not "pretend intellectual superiority", it's calling you on being deliberately obtuse in order to be snarky.
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Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 12:54pm
What are you talking about? It's not my fault that she wasn't clear. She didn't specify *her* rain gutters. I just wondered what a person would be doing walking around looking in rain gutters for. Maybe something down there that I'm missing. I don't know, I'm not the one who posted it.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 12:54pm
Oh...well, sometimes when I am out on a walk in the neighborhood with my dog, and I see some trash blocking the neighbor's rain gutter, I might actually bend over and pick that up, too, since I carry a litter bag with me. I'm still not sure why you're interested in whether, where and why I pick up litter or not?
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 12:55pm
And snarkiness isn't anything new on this board. I guess it just depends on who the snarkiness is coming from, right?
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 12:58pm
No, it's more a matter of how well it's done.

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