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so sick of hearing....
| Mon, 08-06-2007 - 1:34pm |
hello everyone!! i just read the cnn article on how burnt out and guilty the working mom is...and how hard it is to incorparate "quality" time...and all i can say is WILL YOU COME OFF IT PLEASE!! i work-40 hours a week; sometimes 6 days a week to get all my hours...and i have 2 children-7 and 3...and you know what-every day during the school year, i walk my dd to school...i volunteer at my dds school-in her classroom and on field trips-i have the last 2 years and plan to do more of the same this coming year...i keep the house clean-do the dishes and laundry, go grocery shopping, etc. and you know what-neither of my kids feel slighted. we just took a week long vacation where we went to an amusement park and then to visit my sil for a few days...they have a lil shallow pool-and i go "swimming" with them often-usually before i go off to the adult world of work...we go on shopping trips with my mom and visit a cousin who has a huge pool and the adults play cards outside on the deck when the kids swim...we play games, we take walks, we go to parks...it just boggles my mind. yes i get tired-and yes there are days i wish i didnt have to go in to work...but then theres days that i cant wait until i go in-some women are meant to stay at home and theyre happy doing it...and some women are meant to work outside the home-i need that adult stimulation-i need my friends and my friends are all behind that deli counter with me...again i dont feel my kids are slighted in the least-my own mom was a stay at homer and she didnt volunteer at school and we never took the kinds of trips and outings my kids are lucky enough to have on a regular basis...i dont feel guilty when im at work-i dont think being a working mom hurts my kids...im getting sick and tired of hearing how unhappy working moms are, or how guilty i should feel cuz im not with my kids 24/7...maybe im the exception...or maybe the media focuses too much on the exceptions and a lot of working mommies feel like me...??? take care!!
joanne
maman2goons@yahoo.com
joanne
maman2goons@yahoo.com

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In a way, yes. I first thank God that my children are not Special needs children. Then I am happy to know my tax payer dollars are going to Special Ed, to the autistic, to a Boces program in town, gosh to WIC, to planting bulbs in the town square, etc. There are so many better uses for taxpayer dollars than to appease us parents of children with high IQs.
Your oldest DD is exceptionally intelligent, right? Don't you think the time and place for separating out the truly high IQ children is in high school? Isn't that when the curriculum really mattered to her and her future?
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I agree, except when it comes to education .
PumpkinAngel
"I first thank God that my children are not Special needs children."
Why?
Which of course is irrelevant to how I addressed it, which of course was my point.
PumpkinAngel
IMO, ADA has help Special Education far far far more than NCLB.
Americans with Disabilities Act.
If you say so.
It's a shame you can't discuss this without personally attacking me and, well, my children to boot! I know something of those schools and would have liked to discuss that particular racially discriminatory practice back in the good ole days, as you called them. C'est la vie.
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