Staying at home a choice??

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Registered: 04-29-2007
Staying at home a choice??
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Sun, 04-29-2007 - 6:46am

The author of this article thinks most mothers go to work because they want to, not because they have to.

"Most parents from two-parent families today do have a choice when it comes to parental care. They can try and talk themselves into believing they don't, but it really boils down to priorities."

http://backofthebook.ca/living/2007/03/part-time-ophanages-part-2-job-only.html

Does anyone (other than her) really believe this? I don't know of anyone among my friends who works who wouldn't rather be staying at home with their children. But they don't have the choice!

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Registered: 03-28-2003
Wed, 05-16-2007 - 1:14pm
Cleaning cuts into my reading time. Who cares what the house looks like when you're in the middle of a good book!
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 05-16-2007 - 1:19pm
My ILs sleep on a queen sized air mattress when they come.

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Registered: 11-22-2000
Wed, 05-16-2007 - 1:21pm

How anal is this? I actually make an effort to plan what we're wearing and using around what I plan to wash next. Tonight I'm doing whites, so we're both wearing white (mostly) and used white towels this morning. Tomorrow we'll be wearing dark colors.LOL

I do a load a day, for 2 people, but part of that is that I will not, under any circumstances, re-use a towel. It's used once and washed. They smell gross if you hang them back up wet and I can not STAND to see towels hanging all over the bathroom drying. My bathroom is not allowed to look "lived-in".LOL


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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 05-16-2007 - 1:22pm
Good plan.

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Wed, 05-16-2007 - 1:24pm
I enjoy using towels until they can stand up by themselves...;-)

 

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Wed, 05-16-2007 - 1:27pm
That's so cool -- not that you were having the issue, but that it led to the entire family being in church together! DH will sometimes go with me if one of the kids is participating in the service, or if it's Christmas Eve, but otherwise, he uses the fact that all the rest of us will be at church for several hours every Sunday as an excuse to go into work on Sundays.
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Registered: 11-22-2000
Wed, 05-16-2007 - 1:34pm
We've recently had a great, life-changing accomplishment...Joel's clothes are finally staying folded thru the putting-away process and staying that way until he wears them!!! Amazing. And it only took 13 years! :-)

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 05-16-2007 - 1:41pm
I would give up my bed for the guest and sleep on the floor.
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Wed, 05-16-2007 - 1:43pm
I would have given my eyeteeth to have an excuse to say "sorry mom, we'll send you to a hotel..." damn couch hung in there though.....

 

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Registered: 04-27-2005
Wed, 05-16-2007 - 1:45pm

To me it made sense if I needed one thing, just to get both as it would be worth the money. We will get good use out of the sofa bed.

My mom is the type though that would not complain sleeping on an air mattress and has done it when my sister did not have a bed in her spare room!

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