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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,"
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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Generally when I read, the mental images that form actually have some relation to the words on the page.
For instance, if I read about a women who cleans litter out of a gutter, I don't envision a woman climbing into the sewer, because the gutter is not the sewer. In order to envision a woman climbing into the sewer, I'd have had to read those words. Or your post.
"Um, a salary? You work for your salary, you work for your bonuses, you work for your promotions, right?"
Yes and no. Most jobs pay a wage. However, there are many jobs that pay a wage that is limited (usually a living wage) - yet there are people that work hard everyday because they have a passion - not for a monetary reward. Professions that come to mind are teachers, policemen, fire fighters, social workers, nurses, non-profit social justice workers...
For many people, it isn't about the money. Yes, they need to earn money, but th emoney isn't why they do their job- there are many other jobs that would pay more the less effort.
Policemen, firefighters and nurses are very well paid around here.
Not they don't have a passion, but you certainly can't rule out that some of them are doing it for money.
don't get me wrong, i do think cell phones are a necessity (believe it or not,i've allowed my dds to use my own before). i just do *not* think my child(ren) need one of their own!! the kids that march around school grounds with their personal pink/lime green/or other color one are sort of defining what's cool for everyone else adn that's a lesson i could care less my kids pick up on.
heck,i would wager the parents that allow their chidlren personal cell phones at 10 or 11 become the same parents that allow their children their own car at 16 - and that is just something i don't find a child's necessity. imo.
Edited 9/24/2006 12:18 pm ET by egd3blessed
"don't get me wrong, i do think cell phones are a necessity"
Personally, I don't think cell phones are a necessity. They are, however, extremely nice to have and make our lives much easier.
"(believe it or not,i've allowed my dds to use my own before)"
For what? surely kids don't have any need to use any kind of cell phone?
"the kids that march around school grounds with their personal pink/lime green/or other color one are sort of defining what's cool for everyone else adn that's a lesson i could care less my kids pick up on."
Weird. This must be an American thing. Kids just don't go around school showing off personal colours on their cell phones. Kids don't actually show off their phones at all. A cell phone isn't "cool", it's a nice-to-have tool that pretty much every child over the age of 10 has. Then again, cool or not I'd want ds to have his own phone since he is on his own in a city center for a significant amount of time every day. I'm not so obsessed with the whole "cool" factor that I would deliberately deprive my child of a useful tool merely because it happens to be cool.
"heck,i would wager the parents that allow their chidlren personal cell phones at 10 or 11 become the same parents that allow their children their own car at 16 - and that is just something i don't find a child's necessity. imo."
LOL. I don't know of a single 16 yo that has his/her own car. I know very few 18 yos that have their own cars. Maybe mommy and daddy are broke, having spent all of their money on cell phones and ipods?
It's best not to think about what Halloween really symbolizes. It doesn't bother me if dd associates it with costumes and trick-or-treating for very tiny candy bars. If she never knows the true meaning of Halloween, I'm ok with that.
As for the true meaning of Easter, on the one hand- resurrection of Jesus. On the other hand, some pagan nods to rebirth got in there too so eggs and bunnies are also part of the true meaning- even in candy form.
And the true meaning of Thanksgiving? It really is food. That is the true meaning of Thanksgiving. Remember what the pilgrims were actually giving thanks for. It was their continued survival due to food from the harvest.
Christmas and Easter are not about food, although food is used as a symbol of the true meaning in the case of Easter. But the true meaning of Thanksgiving is food. As with any harvest festival, a good harvest and the food it brings means the difference between living and starving to death. We're so removed from starving to death that a lot of people have ignored that meaning. But the pilgrims who celebrated our iconic first Thanksgiving really were on the edge of starving. It was all about the food. And how thankful they were to have it.
Go to a Passover Sedar sometime. There the true meaning is spelled out in food in perhaps the bluntest possible way. Each type of food on the table has a backstory about why it was included and these backstories are told throughout the course of the Sedar. Tha matzoh is a reminder of people having to pack food in a hurry or get killed, so no time for watching bread rise. And so on. All the food is symbolic. Food is symbolic at a lot of other holidays too, but only Passover (that I know of) spells it out in such exhaustive detail throughout the meal.
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