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,"
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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And those bigger things are always something most kids reach for - high grades, etc. You won't want your kids to go for the highest grade, etc possible? You would be happy as long as they came home and said, "Well, I feel good about the work that I did today." That simply won't be good enough for me. I want my children to set a goal for themselves and then work hard to reach that goal. Something as vague as a "good education" isn't enough - I want my kids to have a narrower goal in sight. I know far too many kids who have the "I want a good education" plan - and they take all the easy classes. Whereas the kids I know that have the "I have a high goal to obtain to" are usually the ones in the AP classes, etc. That is what I want for my kids and we are on track for that.
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Dh and I read constantly, our kids watch next to no television, we don't own any kind of video games, we have books everywhere - everything just like you. My kids would much rather play basketball, ride their bikes, jump on the trampoline. They have the more active personalities and sitting for extended periods of time are simply not in their genetic make-up. We have books on every single topic imaginable to man - they will read for 20 minutes then need to get up and move around. I am simply not going to kill one area of their personality to please people who have a problem with a system that has my children reading way above their grade level. Not gonna happen.
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Do you know where your children's reading level is? IMO, reading ability is way more important than love of reading. Three of my kids didn't like to read, so if I did things your way, they would still be in the below reading level. Doing things our way, we have them reading way above their reading level - my 1st grader reads at a 4 grade level, my 3rd grader reads at a 7th grade level, my kindergartener is reading at a 2nd grade level. Knowing how to read and knowing how to read WELL is way more important than loving to read. If their levels drop, I will be concerned. I want them to know how to read more than love to read.
Because they would have been insensitive even if her mother were still alive. I've explained it more than once and even gave you an analogy.
And yes, I am *quite* aware you are completely in the dark about how that could possibly be the case.
Would you prefer that people thought you were knowingly insensitive? I was simply giving you the benefit of the doubt.
I'll happily retract and speak only for myself - you are correct that I do not know if there are those who believed, even after you stated otherwise, that you were being deliberately insensitive.
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