SAH doesn't support change,

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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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Sat, 09-23-2006 - 4:20pm
I didn't throw out the Bible verses to start or win some kind of competition. I threw them out because they seemed applicable to your situation. Perhaps your son comes by his competitive nature honestly?
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Sat, 09-23-2006 - 4:23pm
That's fine, but we celebrate it on a somewhat deeper level...being thankful for more than just food, but for the many many things we have in our lives.
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Sat, 09-23-2006 - 4:23pm
I think people overemphasize traditions in regards to food. Gives them an excuse to consume more food than they normally would have on those days.
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Sat, 09-23-2006 - 4:24pm

My kids are still working on very simple concepts. My 14 year old, for instance, recently challenged the law of gravity. And lost.

So, the kid won't work for a piece of paper, but will work for a swim party.....who was it who said that the awards were for the five and six year olds and the older kids didn't need them? Or that eventually they learn that the grade itself is the award? Evidently, your kids don't get ALL the concepts quicker than other kids, lol.

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Sat, 09-23-2006 - 4:25pm
They are bored after they master the concept and while they are waiting for the others to do to the same so that they can introduce a new challenging concept. It's not an everyday (well, DD is "bored" every day but I think that is more her 10 year old attitude more than anything else). Then they get to to work on their own free time activities. It really isn't that hard to grasp. A teacher introduces a concept, the whole class (or KLUE/TAG group) works on it, some kids (more often than not, my kids included) master the concept, the teacher has to work with the other kids who have not, then everyone masters it, then a new challenging concept. My child with ADD gets through all of his work very quickly (have you ever experienced an ADD child personally?)and then he waits. I guess I could medicate him so that he is like every other child in the room but that is simply not an option I am willing to consider.
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Sat, 09-23-2006 - 4:26pm
Yes as a matter of fact he does.
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Sat, 09-23-2006 - 4:27pm
I have to say that we enjoy the Thanksgiving day parade in Manhattan. My children once got the thrill of watching DH and I march in it in separate years. That overshadowed that ugly turkey on the table!
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Sat, 09-23-2006 - 4:28pm

I agree. I would not just randomly buy a phone for a teenager.

But in our case buying a phone for our college age teenager is what got us started on cell phones. When DD1 went off to college we got a two phone plan because A: She could not call long distance from her dorm room and we did not want not her not having the funds to be a reason not to be able to call us amd B: She was spending a lot of time on the highway going back and forth to school. So she had one phone and the family shared the other phone. It pretty much sat at home during the day and was used by whoever needed it at night.

Then when DD2 went to college we added a phone for her for the same reasons we bought one for her sister.

Then a few months after that DH had to work at another location that did not have phone access so he started to carry the family phone with him. The problem with that is if he was carrying it with him then it was not always available for the rest of the family to use so we added a phone for me. So then we had 4 phones for 5 poeple.

So then for the next 1-2 years my phone was shared by myself and DD3. I carried it during the day but when she went out at night she took it.

By then we had gotten hooked on the conveneince of cell phones, I was tired of having to share mine and my DD1 was graduating from college and would be taking over her own phone service so for my DD3 16th birthday we got her a phone. So we continued having 4 phones but now everyone had their own. Next year when DD2 graduated from college she will take over her own service and then we will go back to 3 phones again.

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Sat, 09-23-2006 - 4:29pm
i realize i am coming into this conversation a bit late, but i really dont understand the big fuss about incentives. kids in our school received a free ticket to a baseball game last year for reading "x" number of hours in a month. i dont see the problem. if you are going to read you are probably going to read with or without the incentive, just as if you arent going to read the incentive will probably not influence a large number of kids to read - but what if you have that 1 or 2 kids who really love baseball and to get that ticket they take the challenge and in the process develop a new respect for reading - doesnt that make it worth it. no one is forced to participate in the incentive programs. i just find this big to do about something so harmless amazing
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Sat, 09-23-2006 - 4:30pm
I'm bowing out of this one with you. I can't take it. It's not your fault, it's mine. My mother died a few months ago, unexpectedly, and since then I have felt closer to her when I make the holiday food she taught me to make. I've talked it over with my sisters, and they feel the same way. Your dismissal of what I said with "it's just an excuse to consume more calories" is just more than I can take right now. You can stay on the ride if you want, I am climbing off as of now.

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