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,"

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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: 11-12-2003
Sat, 09-23-2006 - 8:17pm
Most of the kids who have them probably have parents who have big ol plans that allow them to add phones for $10 a month.
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Registered: 06-30-2006
Sat, 09-23-2006 - 8:26pm
Oh, yes, I've asked around and that is the case.

Sabina

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Registered: 11-12-2003
Sat, 09-23-2006 - 8:31pm
I wish I could do that, I usually end up eating most of the chocolate... LOL.
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Registered: 06-02-2003
Sat, 09-23-2006 - 9:02pm
LOL...I definitely have my chocoholic times!
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Registered: 03-28-2003
Sat, 09-23-2006 - 9:25pm

I've read his book and it is very helpful when trying to decide if your child should opt out of any school sponsored incentive programs. My favorite part is when he quotes educational psychologist John Nicholls (about the Pizza Hut reading program) that the program would produce "a lot of fat kids who don't like to read."

He has a new book out about The Myth of Homework and it is also pretty fascinating.

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Registered: 08-27-2005
Sun, 09-24-2006 - 1:57am

Austria likes to be different. I always cracked up at the motto for Vienna: "Wien ist anders"...you bet it is ;-). Much as I love Vienna, there is no way we could ever stand to live there again.

Cell phones are pretty cheap in Germany and, if I recall correctly, Italy. But I think you are right that they tend to be the cheapest in Scandinavia. There's a lot of competition between service providers, even for land lines, so the prices have dropped tremendously in the last 5-10 years.

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Registered: 01-13-2006
Sun, 09-24-2006 - 3:59am
perhaps at your kids ages but just wait. i would never allow my dd out in her car without her cellphone. she started taking mine when she going out when she was about 10-11. it is no where close to a toy - it is for safety and convience.
Jennie
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Registered: 01-13-2006
Sun, 09-24-2006 - 4:06am
the formal classroom is only a part of the schooling my kids are getting, so to miss a day now and then is in no way going to harm them - unless maybe you have a kid who is really struggling. my kids miss the first two days of thanksgiving week every year - the value they get from spending that week with their extended family is greater than the value they would get from being in school for those two days.
Jennie
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Registered: 01-13-2006
Sun, 09-24-2006 - 4:10am
but, once again, he didnt study my child. my child loves the pizza hut program, she isnt fat and likes to read. as if 7-8 pizzas a year is going to make any child fat.
Jennie
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Registered: 05-09-2006
Sun, 09-24-2006 - 6:22am

No problem; it happens. Sometimes, for people who habitually misuse words, there's a sort of rhythm to their writing and you learn to automatically translate to what was probably their meaning (and it works roughly 80% of the time) :) (who was that baseball manager/owner that was famous for that kind of thing????)

I've not seen that about your posts, tho, so I was genuinely confused for a moment. :)

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