SAH doesn't support change,

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Registered: 05-08-2003
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: 04-14-2003
Thu, 08-31-2006 - 9:06am
you aren't seeing your own contradiction here, are you? how could pumping while or especially after nursing help if, as you claim, pumping is less efficient than breastfeeding--if a pump can't or likely won't take as much or more than a baby will? pumping is used as a therapy to increase supply because it is usually as and sometimes more efficient (if nothing else, a pump doesn't stop because it fell asleep or felt full). your claim of expertise from reading babytalk and insinuation that the cdc has found pumping to diminish supply don't even hold up in light of your own arguments here.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Thu, 08-31-2006 - 9:11am
My Dad gave me the best advice. "Major in your love, minor in something practical that will get you your first job."
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Registered: 05-08-2003
Thu, 08-31-2006 - 9:13am
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 08-31-2006 - 9:37am

Wow, your second in K already.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 08-31-2006 - 9:39am

It's not that I disapprove (that's certainly not my place), it's that I do not think you are being very realistic.


If you are right, why are so many single mothers of young children living in poverty?

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Registered: 12-29-2004
Thu, 08-31-2006 - 9:41am
Speaking only for myself, were I a long term SAHM, I'd be concerned about my kids picking up false gender stereotypes wrt work status. I might want to think about how to minimize that possibility.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 08-31-2006 - 9:46am

Have you ever experienced intellectual challenge and satisfaction in any job?


"I'm missing a steady paycheck


The steady paycheck, plus health and retirement benefits, stock and options, are very nice.


, kissing up to a boss,


I actually like my boss.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 08-31-2006 - 9:49am

It depends on the career.

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Registered: 12-29-2004
Thu, 08-31-2006 - 9:51am

I don't think I claimed WOH is the "better" way or the "best" way to instill a work ethic, only that there's *no better* way. Which isn't to say other approaches couldn't be equally effective.

Ergo, claiming SAH is the *best* way to instill any particular set of values doesn't really follow. Anyway, I wonder what set of values SAH could possibly help to impart that couldn't be effectively imparted with a different work status.

I agree that WOH in itself isn't necessarily much of an example. It all depends on the climate surrounding WOH, the kind of discussions around it, the child's understanding of the nature of the work, and so on. But how does one approach any of those things without the WOH itself?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 08-31-2006 - 10:01am
How about being an overinvolved helicopter mom?

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