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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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To me a soul is the essence of you. It's what make you you. I see my soul as the part of me that makes me different from all other people. It really isn't religious. I am not a religious person at all.
Jenna
While I'm sure that there is one in your mind and possiblly you just can't articulate it right now, but I don't get the difference between a male elementary teacher which is not needed (nor wanted?) and other male role models (which are needed and wanted). Why would men only be equiped to teach later grades and not the early ones? My dh is just as capable of dealing with child meltdowns as I am. And I would love a male teacher for Dylan. I think that we would have less trouble with him getting around a male teacher than he can a female one.
Chris
The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett
Aas i read the thread, there is 2 definitions of the money card being used--your's and everyone else's. There isn't one in my marriage because neither one of us would ever play it. If it won't ever get played, it might as well not be there. So therefore, in a practical sense, it doen's exist.
Chris
The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett
My DH is extremely patient, much moreso than I am. He's great with kids and I could actually see him as a teacher but one problem: he hates speaking to groups of people.
There is one male teacher in my girls elementary school and he teaches 5th grade. A few of the girls hope that they get assigned to his class for 5th grade. It might be a nice change after having only female teachers for the earlier years.
Vikki
I thought you meant "souls" as in something immortal that lives on after death. I agree with your version.
But I don't think it's our unique qualities that make marriages last. I don't even think our unique qualities are fixed for all time, either.
I wish that Kindergarten Cop was real and that Dylan could have a teacher like Arnold for early elementary. Or that his karate sensei (sp?) was also his teacher.
jChris
The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett
And I'm saying that it doesn't exist in a vacumm. If there is a money card that isn't being played, there are other indications that it exists in the hand. The balance of power in the marriage would be unequal in general and not just in regards to a paycheck but through all aspects of the marriage.
Chris
The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett
Divorce is not the ultimate destiny of all marriages. Therefore, in a marriage where it is never once played and that doesn't end in divorce (there are some of those, too) it simply doesn't exist.
I also think that it definately CAN suddenly pop into existence in the event of divorce. There is a precedent for "cards" popping into existence only in the event of divorce. That precedent is children and custody battles. Couples can and sometimes do play the "child" card in a divorce battle by having a fierce custody battle. Oftentimes the "child card" is played for reasons that having nothing at all to do with children. It can be played as revenge for infidelity or revenge for other things having nothing to do with children. And it's something that does not exist (in most marriages) unless divorce makes it suddenly pop into existence. If a "child card" can suddenly pop into existence during divorce for reasons that have nothing to do with children (revenge about being dumped etc.), it's no stretch at all to see a "money card" also popping into existence in the event of divorce- and for reasons that have nothing to do wqith actual money but are also for revenge.
My point is, divorce can make cards pop into existence simply because fury and a desire for revenge (in a divorce where that is a factor) can cause one the divorcing couple to create the cards simply for revenge purposes- a need that didn't exist before the acrimonious divorce.
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