What kind of errands....
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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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But they do for me, which is what I said.
PumpkinAngel
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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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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LOL.
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