Top 3 Excuses I Can't Stand from WOHMs..

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Top 3 Excuses I Can't Stand from WOHMs..
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Fri, 06-29-2007 - 1:39pm


1. We NEED two incomes to survive... Yeah Right! I honestly believe that out of the people that say this 90% would be just fine if they would cut their lifestyle, move to a cheaper area and sacrifice. I am not buying it one bit when people say this.

2. I put my kid in Daycare for the socialization.. Good grief, how much socialization does a 10 month old need?? Besides there are better ways to much socialize young children.

3. I am a better mom if I work outside the home.. UGHH! How in the world do you think you are a better mom by handing your kid off to Grandma or someone else to raise while you go work?? Unless you are going to beat them or verbally abuse them, I always think at home with mom is where kids thrive the most..

THere are others I can't stand, but these are my top 3. Have at it..

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 07-13-2007 - 1:40pm

Try the video/book combo...

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 07-13-2007 - 1:41pm

That education allowed you that choice.


PumpkinAngel

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Fri, 07-13-2007 - 1:43pm

That's great Merella! Both of my children self weaned around 7, 8 months but my target was minimum 6 months and ending around a year. I guess I enjoyed the incredible bonding experience of it(oh no...I used bonding; yikes...please don't attack me non-breastfeeders!). I would pump for DH to feed at nights or when i was going out and couldn't be there.

I still laugh thinking back to a time when I worked in an office primarily full of mid 20 to mid 30 yr old women and would regularly hear breastpumps whirring and pumping in the cubicles around me LOL...we had a great office though and the different care providers would bring kiddies in to feed at the office or pick up the mommy milk :)

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Registered: 09-06-2003
Fri, 07-13-2007 - 1:46pm

Well you're right I was not involved very much in my DD potty training(admittedly don't remember it at all) but I would never have called you a marginal player? That sounds like a derogatory label under the context of the posts that were being exchanged so I just wanted to ensure that you did not mean that I would consider you such.

I would not.

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Registered: 09-06-2003
Fri, 07-13-2007 - 1:48pm

Thank you, I will. OKAY...so I miss Chapters WAAAAHHHHHH....the used book store "The Owl & The Teapot" is not likely to have it....maybe the library or I guess just order it online LOL.

I appreciate the suggestion.

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Registered: 09-06-2003
Fri, 07-13-2007 - 1:49pm
not so much; my education did not secure me the first job I got in the industry I worked primarily.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 07-13-2007 - 1:51pm

So what allowed you to stay home for as long as you did and not have to return to work to provide $$ for your family?


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 01-15-2006
Fri, 07-13-2007 - 1:55pm
i disagree..i don't think education is the only tool that allows us the choices we make. dh isn't at the earned place he's at becaues of just his eduation. like i believe somebody said earlier,it's the drive,personality,satisfaction and interest in work that has earned him the spot he has. and those choices he's made through the years just happen to enable me the choice to sah because he makes enough.

 

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Registered: 01-15-2006
Fri, 07-13-2007 - 2:04pm
fwiw,i have a friend whose autistic child still isn't toilet trained. and he's my middle dd's age,almost 8. does school help?

 

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 07-13-2007 - 2:06pm

You must have me confused with another poster, I never stated anything about education being

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