What kind of errands....

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Registered: 08-27-2005
What kind of errands....
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Wed, 08-31-2005 - 1:41pm

Do you run on a daily basis? Weekly basis? Monthly basis?

I've often heard people say that they need a lot of time during the week to run errands and that those errands would otherwise take up their evenings and weekends if they had to WOH ft. It made me curious because I just don't seem to have many errands to run at all. Are we just lazy :-)?

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Tue, 09-13-2005 - 8:21am
There really must be something pathological at work here with your insistence that you know better than I do what is going on in the lives of my nephews and my children's friends. I am more than willing to concede that you know best what is going on in your corner or the world. I find it both laughable and sad that you claim to know what is going on in mine.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Tue, 09-13-2005 - 8:26am
How are you defining "common"? If you mean by common that most babies are born to women over 35, then of course you are right. Most babies are not. According to the US National Center for Health Statistics, the pregnancy rate for women between the ages of 35 and 40 in 2003 was 4 in 1000. And for women between 40 and 45, .9 in 1000. Given the number of women in that cohort in the USA though, there are a lot of babies being born to women over 35. Which makes babies born in the USA from women over 35 not all that uncommon, if by common we mean not unusual, not rare.
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Registered: 09-04-1997
Tue, 09-13-2005 - 8:37am

I've watched my kids and the kids on their teams for years and I am pretty clued in to my own kids, thank you very much. My kids didn't play organized sports at 4 or 5, they began in the first grade, at 6 or 7. And no, they didn't bother with keeping score. They cheered on their teammates and even clapped when kids from the other team got a basket. They remembered if they scored, for sure.

My younger one is playing baseball this fall. He notices if he strikes out or if he hits a really good one. He notices if a parent from the stands says something really nice about him -- he overheard a mother telling another parent or grandparent to "pay attention to #21 -- he's really pretty good." He beamed about that one. He notices if his team gets creamed, which has happened once this season. If one team scores five runs before they get three outs, the inning is over, and that's ignominious, to be avoided at all costs. He also notices when his team creams another team, which has happened once this season. He notices if he makes a really good play in the field or if he misses an easy out (which hasn't happened this season). But honestly, if the "score" is something like 3 to 1 or 5-4, they have no clue. They don't really care, as long as everyone is having fun. Rather difficult for you to absorb, I am sure, but it's how it works here.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 09-13-2005 - 8:55am

I agree with you to a

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 09-13-2005 - 8:59am
You are just plain wrong.
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Registered: 09-15-2003
Tue, 09-13-2005 - 9:06am

FWIW, it doesn't take 'lots of money' to hit the slopes and have fun.... if that's what you are living for at that point in your life. When I was in my 20's, I lived in Denver and rented an apartment and snowboarded and hiked and mountain biked and roller-bladed and partied at night with all my like-minded friends. We had jobs but we worked to play. We didn't work to pay mortgages or buy diapers or car seats or day care. We worked for our own selfish goals of having fun.


See? See how easy that is?


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Meldi
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 09-13-2005 - 9:27am
My goodness you certainly do have a competitive lifestyle. That must be where your kids got it from. On a debate board you think there is literal score keeping and you get to win a point. But actually you didn't "win" anything. She was being sarcastic.
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Tue, 09-13-2005 - 9:33am
No. Work status is irrelevant to the responsibility of planning for a student's prompt dismissal in case of illness. One way or another.
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Tue, 09-13-2005 - 9:42am
And let's not forget that adoption has been growing for quite a while, usually involving older parents.
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Tue, 09-13-2005 - 9:45am
IME, older parents are at least as common as dual income couples making 300K per year and 2yo's who never nap.

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