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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Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 2:44pm
You'll have to go back and re-read. There is nothing wrong with picking up litter. I am thinking of a little plastic toy that most likely would have fell into the sewer and seeing a grown woman on hands and knees trying to fish it out is what's wrong.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 2:49pm

I can read. I was responding to what you said:

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

To me that's picking up trash and people in our community don't bash others for doing that.

You assumed she was fishing stuff out of the drainage down lower than the street. I didn't. And many I'm sure would look down on others for picking up trash & making the community nice. Like all those people who throw the trash out on the street in the first place.

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Registered: 06-09-2006
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 2:53pm

"You assumed she was fishing stuff out of the drainage down lower than the street"

Right because the objects that she mentioned are too tiny to just sit on the top portion waiting for someone to pick them up. They would fall through.

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Registered: 08-12-2003
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 2:55pm
Would you care to borrow Madamarama Ikatarama's crystal ball?

 

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 3:00pm

I'm sorry, I thought she specifically said gutters and didn't say anything about grates.


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 3:00pm

I would, thank you!


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 3:11pm
I wouldn't know. I have never not made our traditional cookies on the traditional occasions. But what does gettiing heart-shaped peppermint-flavored chocolate-flled and frosted cookie on Valentine's Day have to do with reading incentives? I don't make them DO anything for the cookies.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 3:12pm
They often don't fall through right away. Around this time of year, the trash often gets caught in leaves. Eventually it will be forced through by water, but for a while it sits on top of the leaves that sit on top of the grate. That's why I didn't assume she was trying to reach through the grate, something that isn't physically possible with our grates.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 3:18pm
They would fall through if they were clear. But gutters in our neighborhood fruquently get clogged up with leaves and trash & debris so that the water can't even fall through.

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Fri, 09-22-2006 - 3:20pm
Actaully, I send my older son to a school where he gets both a percentage grade in each subject plus every month I get a detailed progress report from each teacher showing what he is learning, what he is still mastering, where he needs reinforcement, where he is excelling, that sort of thing. This kid knows that we value his effort and the time he puts into his classes, not just the results. He knows that I can get cranky about an 88% in a subject that's easy for him and excited about an 86% in the class that hardest for him. A smiley face on every paper is a disservice to a child, because left to themselves, they do tend to know what is quality work and what isn't. The trick is motivating them to want to do quality work whether there's a smiley face at the end or not.

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