What kind of errands....

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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 - 4:48pm
Neither of those things can constitute a "have to leave work right now" emergency for me because both of those things require buying airline tickets. And no, I can't imagine being able to book a flight that would take off so soon after booking that I had to leave work right then to catch it.
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Wed, 09-07-2005 - 5:02pm
So seeming human, fallible even, might be worth doing in a place where one spends hours each day. Shrug.
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Wed, 09-07-2005 - 5:05pm

But they do for me, which is what I said.

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Wed, 09-07-2005 - 5:07pm
Yes, of course I agree that not joining a team does not equal obesity. I was questioning PNJ's assertion that joining a team equals professional and academic failure.
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Wed, 09-07-2005 - 5:08pm

Let me pause to take a moment to thank my mom for being the anti-quietmom. When the school music teacher (4th grade? 5th? somewhere about there) called to try to convince my mom to make me take violin because I have long fingers and a good ear, my mom said "if she wants to she will, if she doesn't want to I won't make her because it's not required". And now...I can't play violin. Which I don't count as a loss at all because I honestly don't enjoy the sound of the violin and never listen to music showcasing violins when it's my choice. As it turns out, long fingers and a good ear are also an asset for playing the guitar, which I glommed onto. They bought me one and paid for lessons and I played for years.

Yup, my renegade mom believed that if something was not literally required (as school attendance is), the kid should have complete free choice on whether they do it or not. She never said anything to my brther about organized sports. She figured that if he wanted to play on an organized basketball team instead of just pick-up games, he'd say so. He didn't. (Dad's opinion was the same, since Dad's idea of excellent physical activity was and still is biking.) Today he's a personal trainer who runs triathalons. The lesson I learned from my parents' particular approach is that kids really will pick the activity that is right for them regardless of any parent-organized exposure. They were right. And the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, which is why I argue so vehemently with quietmom who has the exact opposite approach. I know my parents' approach works because it worked on me and my brother. And dh? Pick-up games his whole childhood. Never on one single organized team. Now he's on a volleyball team, proof that childhood involvement in organized sports is not a needed prerequisite to adult involvement.

Needless to say, we're using the same hands-off approach with dd.

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Wed, 09-07-2005 - 5:14pm
"Ignominiously" - Best Vocabulary Word of the Day.
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Wed, 09-07-2005 - 5:20pm

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I wasn't talking about doing things incorrectly on purpose.

I'm talking about mistakes. Have you ever made a mistake, and by that I mean, have you ever had poor judgment about a situation, or, to be crystal clear on this, have you ever made the wrong decision about any situation without realizing at the time that you were making the wrong choice?

Have you ever admitted to a mistake on this board? Why not? What would you be risking by appearing human to the people with whom you spend the majority of your waking hours?

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Wed, 09-07-2005 - 5:24pm

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LOL.

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Wed, 09-07-2005 - 5:29pm
It is a problem for all families who don't have one whole person whose job it is to be on call in the event of a sickness at school. When kids are at school, most parents, even neighbor parents or kids' friends' parents who are on the "pick-up list" at school, are usually doing *something.* Sometimes, that something is important enough that interrupting it is a problem. Stretch your mind a little. You'll get there.
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Wed, 09-07-2005 - 5:40pm
I think you'll find a lot of opportunities for kids to play sports, whether or not they play in the elite competitive leagues. My kids have never lacked for opportunities to play the games they are interested in -- and my DS says to add Volleyball to the list of things they have tried -- both have participated in an afterschool program where girls from the university team come to the elementary schools and teach Volleyball fundamentals for 8 weeks -- I think it's three days a week; DS#1 also went to a week long Volleyball camp one summer. He plays well enough not to embarrass himself when the local kids go to the park and play or when a game starts up during a picnic or barbecue.

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