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: 01-05-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 8:21am
PNJ was on the offensive with 'i don't bother drying my laundry and we just suffer and put it on damp because (of course) hanging laundry to dry on the clothesline is just not worth it with the realities of rain and all' And she got back 'does it really rain 7x24 where you are?....we have found that there are plenty of non rainy days in which to hang laundry...you can even hang it inside...or buy a dryer...'. Which puts her on the defensive where she is trying to use 'but thats not the same as drying laundry outside when one lives in the desert where it never ever rains'. Which begs many questions including 'what desert was that where it never ever rained?'
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Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 8:29am
So what "focus on other things" is there that people are allegedly slighting?
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Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 8:45am
So let me get this straight. We're helpless slaves of our children, and our children have been highjacked by technology. Woe, oh woe, is me.
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Registered: 01-05-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 8:46am
Before kids the limitations were school, finances and work.
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 9:03am
IME, lots of families aren't especially interested in sports, and lots of families tend not to involve their kids in organized extracurriculars until they're well into elementary school. What else are they doing? A thousand different things.
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Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 9:08am
Or absolutely nothing.
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Registered: 01-05-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 9:11am
Oh kids figure out what they want to be involved in on their own alright. Very very very, often, if not, most often, after seeing in what some other child is already involved and accomplished.
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 9:13am
There wouldn't be much debate if we weren't willing to be both on the offensive and on the defensive, depending. But are housekeeping routines as important to most parents as questions of how we help them plan their activities?
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 9:20am

We can and should resist and stay parental, but the potential is there. Neither of my kids has a cell or a laptop yet. My 16yo has an iPod mini that her friends bought her as a combined birthday gift out of pity. But our not providing these things doesn't seem to stop the li'l darlings from constantly nagging about them. I've even been told by one of dd1's friends that I "really should" get her a cell phone. She's the only one who doesn't have one.

It really gets pretty funny. DD1's most recent plea went like this: "You know, mom and dad, I've had so much loss in my life, what with my adoption and all, it would make me so happy to finally get a cell phone!" It takes a heart of stone to stay firm.

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Wed, 09-07-2005 - 9:29am
You'd know better than I. And I hesitate to keep on discussing "one particular person" due to yesterday's message from TPTB. But cursory glances through some posts since I started here make me wonder about that "absolutely nothing". Don't swimming lessons and having a nanny bring kids places count?

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