The school year's almost half over...

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Registered: 06-30-2006
The school year's almost half over...
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Tue, 01-16-2007 - 7:47pm
Is your work status working for you wrt

Sabina

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 3:22pm
I know you are a WOHM. A charge frequently leveled at WOHMS is that they shouldn't let other people take care of their kids because they COULD do it themselves. You are making the exact same silly charge but applying it to housework rather than childcare.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 3:29pm
Of course that's the example we want to set for our children. The example of participating in a market ecconomy. Which you also participate in. You hire somebody else to do your plumbing, electrical work, car repairs and sometimes cooking. These are things you don't WANT to do. You could do them if only you took the time to go to each trade school and learn how. Yet you have declined to do that. Which sounds like a cost/benefit analysis to me. You are teaching your kids that if you don't want to do something (such as learn how to repair plumbing), you can hire somebody else to do it. This does not apply to paper writing since the point of that is for the kid to demonstrate they have mastered a skill. But once they are adults in the work world, they may quite possibly hire people to write papers for them. People hire PNJ, a lawyer, to write their legal papers rather than go through the bother of going to law school and being able to do it themselves. Unless kids are going to be hermits in the woods, they will spend their entire lives giving people money to do stuff for them. Just as you and I do. For some unknown reason, you have put housework, snow shoveling and leaf raking in a little sanctified box of things that people should never pay for, unlike all the other things they pay for.
iVillage Member
Registered: 01-05-2000
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 3:30pm

Thinking about it, I'd trust a stranger I dragged in off the street to clean my house sooner than I'd trust my bil for anything.

Chris

The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-04-1997
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 3:36pm
Uhmm..some children whine when they are in pain. Some children whine at the onset of an illness when it's not even yet clear to the mother that they are indeed coming down with something. It's still whining. It makes the same sound. I would rather my children not whine at any time, but I certainly understood and forgave whining caused by illness or hunger much more readily than I would habitual whining.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-27-2000
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 3:49pm
ROFLMAO! It took me sec to catch that!
iVillage Member
Registered: 01-13-2004
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 3:49pm
Our school does offer a few afterschool clubs but they are held on Tuesdays and since I work my kids cannot participate. Noone in our school walks home because the school is pretty far from ther neighborhoods.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 3:50pm

My morals are not your morals.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 3:54pm
Do you think a 65 year old person who's cleaned their own toilets all their life should morally be permitted to hire out that job, even if they can still physically do it?

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 3:58pm
My father fired his cleaning service because they stole one of his wife's rings.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 01-19-2007 - 4:00pm
Thanks, I'll do what I want and you do the same. LOL

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