SAH IS HARMFUL!!!

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SAH IS HARMFUL!!!
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Thu, 07-08-2004 - 11:32am

Or at least this woman thinks so.

Okmrsmommy-36, CPmom to DD-16 and DS-14

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Registered: 01-29-2004
Mon, 08-23-2004 - 6:14am
Oh, great, another subtle insult? I can't always tell with you: <> Are you suggesting you're above such menial labors and that's mainly what sahms do?


<> How do you know this unless your home is rife with nannycams? How can you, in typical Felicia fashion, claim superiority...again...on this score?

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Mon, 08-23-2004 - 6:21am
<> Just last week DD#2 was dancing on our patio in a "puddle." She said words like "wet" and "cold" and "come dance, ." I was outdoors the whole time, and I was sure we were fine since we'd just come from the potty 30 mins earlier. It's stories like the grass in the bum that we'll be telling our children 10 yrs from now and which give color to my otherwise drab life! I only wish I had the video cam with me.

BTW, we long to be at the stage your youngest is. We made some great progress this weekend, I think.

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Mon, 08-23-2004 - 6:28am
I completely agree with you on the OTBM comment. But PNJ is a good lawyer and consciously selects each word, especially those she uses as daggers, believe me! You must have a very happy home life, job, and all because you are always so positive and optimistic. Yrs of lawyering have hardened me and I met too many men and women like PNJ. Unfortunately, I agree with OTBM, and that was over the top even for PNJ.
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Mon, 08-23-2004 - 6:33am
So in other words, you have to take vacation time to do what a sahm does everyday with her children. You have to become a sahm for 1.5 vacation days and weekends to squeeze it all in. This indicates only 1 conclusion - if you have it all, then wohp children are missing out on those non-vacation and weekend days.
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Mon, 08-23-2004 - 7:06am
PNJ and I have gone round and round for awhile. I am not like her at all, nor do I have her background, status, money, or DH. Yet, I am happy. I think that is what bothers her.
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Mon, 08-23-2004 - 7:17am
I hear ya. PNJ and I are also "going around" at the moment but I think - though she'd deny it - it's because she and I are alike in childrearing philosophies and maybe even likes/dislikes, personalities. She is truly complex, and I like that about her.
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Mon, 08-23-2004 - 7:18am
What do you do about travel?

DD has always slept anywhere. She would just fall asleep & we carry her to bed. She stil does it if it isn't a school night now.

We didn't stop taking vacations when we had dd. She just sleeps wherever.

Paige

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Mon, 08-23-2004 - 7:22am
I think my favorite potty story is when I was on the phone with a client and DS came into my office carrying his potty chair. He said quite loudly, "I went poop, mom!" My client heard it and started laughing. She had a two year old herself, so she understood.

outside_the_box_mom

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Mon, 08-23-2004 - 7:57am
I love my crocs! My biggest problem with them is getting them away from my kids.
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Mon, 08-23-2004 - 8:14am
"We have so much unstructured time as it is - hours and hours of it. . . .I've taken 1.5 vacation days from work in that time. . . . There's time to do it all and still WOH FT." Do you not see the humor in what you are saying?

How much vacation time do you get, anyhow?

For some of us, doing it all means taking family vacations, not sucking up vacation time with routine things like other kids' birthday parties.

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