What have you given up?

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Registered: 07-17-2007
What have you given up?
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Mon, 06-30-2008 - 10:48am
What have you "given up" in order to have and parent children?

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Registered: 05-14-2006
Fri, 07-04-2008 - 2:29pm
"Higher standards are better than lower standards by definition."

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-04-2008 - 2:47pm
I guess it's ironic if you don't think the goal is to have uniformly high standards, regardless of who does what.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-04-2008 - 2:48pm
Lol, I argue that just because a standard may be

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Registered: 05-14-2006
Fri, 07-04-2008 - 3:07pm

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Fri, 07-04-2008 - 3:20pm

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Registered: 04-22-2005
Fri, 07-04-2008 - 3:37pm

<< a standard may be "obsessive," that doesn't mean it isn't a high standard; do you really think expecting clean toilets and kitchen, and for children to eat veggies every day, is having an obsessively high standard?>>

I don't think that anyone considers a clean house and daily veggie consumption to be obsessively high standards. However, if a person insists that the toilets be cleaned several times a day, that would be an example of an obsessively high standard. It would certainly be a higher standard than, say, cleaning the toilets once a day, but it's not better just for being higher.




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Registered: 07-26-2007
Fri, 07-04-2008 - 4:30pm

and for children to eat veggies every day,

Uhhhh....wasn't the problem Lois mentioned the lack of FRESH veggies while she was gone, not the entire lack of veggies?

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 07-04-2008 - 4:32pm

I admit, it's hard to imagine a guy who doesn't do any chores at all.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 07-04-2008 - 4:35pm

Yeah, but you said this was most of the men you know.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 07-04-2008 - 4:41pm
FWIW, I used to know quite a few back when I frequented the fancy playground. Some of them even had bodyguards. Two stand out in my memory-the one with triplets and a nanny for each kid. The kids came to the playground with the three nannies; the other had a live-in nanny/slave for the basics, and then several PT nannies to speak languages with the kids plus a French baby nurse each time there was a newborn, since mommy ONLY gave birth in Paris and sent the baby home with the nurse so she could recover in peace.

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