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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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I guess a car is not a necessity, but it was the birth of one child and then a second that directly caused us to sell the two cars we had been previously driving in order to accomodate the legally mandated car seats.
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There's activity, and there are organized sports. Not always the same thing. Not everyone likes organized sports, yet they find ways to stay active, individually and with their families. My dds go shoot baskets, skateboard, swim, go for long hikes, ride their bikes for miles, without any organization or adult guidance. If they didn't, of course I'd do what I could to try to make something physical happen for them.
The fact that the whole country is on a downward spiral health-wise is unfortunate, but IMO that's about totally negligent parenting to begin with. I think what we're talking about is what constitutes a responsible set of alternatives for parents who actually give a hoot.
"I think people use having kids as an easy excuse to not do things they used to do."
I agree. If you didn't have kids, wouldn't you feel kinda silly not being in school FT or working FT, especially with a DH who's out of town half the time?
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Its lucky for my family that we are so darn flexible and adventurous, is what it is. We allowed ourselves the chance to get to like new things.
I did not choose activities, structured or in more general lifestyle terms, for my young children which meshed with my own interests. I chose activities from which I believed they would benefit in both short term and long term fashion.
It's not a sin, but it does make life harder for the child. What kid wants to be the last one picked for the pick-up soccer game? What boy wants to be the slowest kid when his baseball team runs laps around the field before the game. I realize that my worries about this are luxuries, and must seem like petty ones to people whose kids can't run at all, but I don't think wanting your kid to be able to keep up with the other kids means you view kids who can't compete as sinful.
My older son, like Lois's, is not a natural athlete. Getting him involved early in sports is a way to help him keep up. Sports are a conversation starter among boys, if nothing else.
I do think sports can be taken to a ridiculous extreme. At 5, it appears that DS1 is behind his peers when it comes to hockey preparedness. He can skate, but not well. There are kids we know who have been playing *hockey*, with sticks and pucks and everything, since age 3. Since I'd really prefer that he not play hockey, that's fine with me, but it was a surprise to realize how far "ahead" some of the other 5yos are in this particular sport.
Actually I left work within a few minutes of receiving both of those calls previously and I would be very
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It's somewhere beyond both "something changed" and "it takes me more than a minute and a half of thought to come up with an appropriate response to said change."
I'm waiting for you to come up with my nonexistent post. Perhaps, by my own definition, you are having a "problem" finding it.
I have one of those in my house.
PumpkinAngel
1. Whether I am "accountable to myself" cannot be judged by you from any number of posts I might make.
2.
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