SAH doesn't support change,
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SAH doesn't support change,
| 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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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.
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.
Jennie
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