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: 03-27-2003
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 2:36pm
Yes indeed. The people in the Astrodome have problems. Funny that you jumped to such an extreme. Do you think that anything LESS than being a dehydrated refugee qualifies as a problem?
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Registered: 03-29-2003
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 2:38pm

Why, because you're a corporate lawyer? LOLOL.

Do you truly believe that sports get in the way of other accomplishments? Do seriously overweight people get the best jobs, in your experience? Are you setting your kid up to be bad at sports to validate your view of him as superior mentally?

Congratulations! I'm so happy to hear it. I just heard the good news and popped back over, just in case you were still checking in.
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Registered: 03-28-2003
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 2:39pm

This really helps explain some of your attitudes about independence and interdependence, to me. I don't mean to start an offshoot about relying on family when times are tough, but when you say there is no one other than your sons and your husband to whom you would need to respond for an interruption-worthy emergency at work, that's just really outside my experience.

I must be from a different planet. My father has called my dh to help him change a tire on the interstate during work hours. Not HIS father, mine.

I'm sure I'm missing something here...

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Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 2:41pm
Yes, that's one of those funny things about people who are fully capable of making their own decisions. They rarely complain about doing too much or too little of anything. Because if they thought they were at risk of doing too much or too little of something, they'd simply change something. Instead of complaining about their own decision.
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Registered: 01-05-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 2:41pm
I've seen lots of these kids too. Unfortunately, I veiw their situation with a realistic eye, not through rose coloured glasses. Kids don't have a blast when they can't contribute. Its not fun to be out there and incapable of contributing. The other kids won't pass for one thing. If your son has been playing for 4 years and his whole team was bettered within a season by kids who've never done anything like it, that doesn't say anything about the general situation of rookie kids on a playing field, but alot about what isn't being achieved within your leagues. On the other hand, most kids, in most other parts of the world, are allowed to run and play with peers, and they actually spend alot of time playing 'soccer'.
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Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 2:42pm
Yup. I'm sorry you find anything about that "extreme" situation funny.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 2:43pm
No, not all dual WOHPs have to leave work when the school calls that the child is vomiting. But nearly half do. If one won't do it, the other must. In some cases a nanny or grandparent can get the child. But if they can't, it defaults to the parent. If dh doesn't respond to the cell phone call because he's in a meeting, dw had better come get the child. They can fight about it later that dh didn't do it, but SOMEBODY has to do it. DD's school memo was very clear that THEY consider vomiting an emergency that requires the child leaving school. And if the school calls it an emergency, the parents don't get to disagree, even if dropping what they are doing and going to the school presents a ...problem. (Not that you would ever admit that having to drop what you were doing at work could ever be a problem.)
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 2:47pm
"A 5 yo with a stomache virus is not an emergency." It is to dd's school system. They sent a memo to parents that they consider vomiting in school an emergency that requires being picked up. You can grumble all you want that "it's not an emergency" as you drive to the school, but you had BETTER drive to the school as soon as they call.
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Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 2:48pm
It's not a problem, much less an emergency, to a family which has a plan to deal with this type of situation. Which would be a really good idea, don't you think?
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Registered: 11-12-2003
Wed, 09-07-2005 - 2:48pm
You can't be serious.

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