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For SAHM's.
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Mon, 05-01-2006 - 5:18pm

For all the stay at home moms, yes I'm one of them. I have one question, do you plan on going back to work once all of your children are in Elementary school? Or do you like staying at home and have decided to never work again? I am just curious, my husband and I have talked about it. I am mainly home just for my kids, to be here when they come home from school is nice, but, I tend to get bored easly, so I have decided once my 3 year old enters into Elementary school, I will be going back to work. I have thought and thought about this, my husband is fine if I decide not to work or if I decide to go back and work. We are financially stable so I can choose to stay home if I want. I would be working so i won't be bored, while the kids are at school all day long. I do plan on working part time, so i can be home when they get home from school. I'm not the type to sit around and do nothing all day, right now my kids are home half the day at least my 5 year old is, so I have her, and my youngest to be home for. I just can't envision myself sitting here all day long with no children around, going gee what do i do now, ain't gonna happen.

I'm done rambling, waiting for replies!!!!

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Registered: 01-15-2006
Wed, 05-10-2006 - 3:25pm

>>the other one has to be an enabler. If the <<
true. i enable a work habit that includes 14 hour days sometimes,i have to. my only alternative would be to find a job myself and *demand* that his schedule change to accomodate and cooperate with dc arrangements. adn because dh is a healthy income earner for this household,i don't have to do that.

but i can't deny that i don't enable because i must...nor can i deny that this arrangement sucks sometimes. it does but so is life.

 

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 05-10-2006 - 3:32pm
Of course it is!

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Registered: 01-15-2006
Wed, 05-10-2006 - 3:35pm

i disagree. my two school age children are daughters and i do *not* think they would be better influenced by a male lead at their school.......maybe i would feel differently if they were boys but i've got a couple more years before ds starts school. and gee,ds is off to a great start with only female teachers at the preschool he attends. shock? hardly!

p.s. you say (we) need more men at the elementary level...if it's that important in early years,why start there and not preschool?

 

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 05-10-2006 - 3:45pm

Again, its an implication, one you've made clear. I personally find it kind of insulting for someone to imply that I'm less than honest or that I am *kidding myself* about what level of partnership my marriage entails. As someone who places personal integrity and honesty fairly high on my list of accomplishments, I dont like even a vague inference of that nature. But then, I tend to take people at their word and at face value unless they show me otherwise.

dj

Dj

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Wed, 05-10-2006 - 3:48pm
See, I don't think it's that good a thing for kids to go through their entire elementary years without having at least one male teacher. Particularly since a lot of kids don't have male role models at home (i.e., fathers). The schools my kids have gone to have had male teachers, coaches, playground supervisors, and I am all the happier for it. There's a guy at my church who retired from a high-paying engineering job after his three kids were raised and went back and got a teaching credential and is now teaching fourth grade at the lowest-performing elementary school in my town. He's my new hero.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Wed, 05-10-2006 - 3:52pm
Preschool would be good too. It's not only boys who benefit from having men around. Girls do too. Girls who have strong male role models -- father, relatives, coaches, teachers, etc., have been shown to have healthier relationships with men in the teen years and older. They start having sex later and they have fewer teen pregnancies.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 05-10-2006 - 3:55pm

What is wrong with the idea of girls being taught by male teachers? I dont get it.

Dj

"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Wed, 05-10-2006 - 4:06pm

"i think it is natural for women to take lesser roles/jobs than men"

Why?

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Wed, 05-10-2006 - 4:09pm
I agree. My kids school has two male PE teachers and I am very glad that DS has regular interaction with a man as part of his normal school day. Besides the busdriver and janitor. More male teachers would be great.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 05-10-2006 - 4:10pm
It's gotta be fear of sexual predators.

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