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What kind of errands....
| 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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Can you point out a post where someone has stated that all families should be properly active or even PNJ's family?
PumpkinAngel
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Yes, but physical exercise can help one deal with stimulation and mental exertion. I know I had a much easier time sitting down to my homework during cross country season, when my body was too tired for fidgeting. It's the same way now -- I'm a calmer mother, a better writer and a more clever consultant when I'm getting regular, challenging physical exercise.
I am concerned that DS1 will be tired from Kindergarten, but one way I am hoping to help him deal with that is by enrolling him in soccer. If he gets enough exercise, he'll sleep better, eat better, and feel better in school.
I don't think so. Clearly, you go back much farther with PNJ and her lines of reasoning, so maybe there are factors and/or information connected with this that I'm not familiar with.
But even if you want to call her on using her kids to "defend" or "excuse" her choices wrt family activities, what difference does it make whether her kids are currently interested in sports? Why assume that their reported lack of involvement in sports reflects PNJ's unwillingness or failure to expose them to sports activities, especially when she says they're just not into them? IMO, it's that she's quite legitimately being catching flak in the first instance, but also in the second, for good measure, when really they're separate matters.
I don't see where it was really implied either.
PumpkinAngel
What is hard to understand about why someone would
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PNJ stated her kids wouldn't be interested in more sports than they already are in. It's debatable, of course, but why not take her word for it? She doesn't seem to say why other than that she knows it to be true, but let's just say she has deliberately avoided involving them in sports, I don't see why that's important enough to discuss. At least not in a manner that suggests she's hiding something or doing something else wrong.
Actually, the ice cream analogy doesn't really hold here in terms of a parent's role. While not buying it for the house might mean the kids can't have it at home, kids get exposed to sports activities in lots of ways besides having their parents involve them.
Maybe it's just me, but IMO there's a "kids should do sports" bias in the thread that was used, along with other things, against PNJ; not really to slam her in this instance but to continue ongoing critique of her parenting choices.
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