what made you decide to do what you do?

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what made you decide to do what you do?
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Wed, 05-21-2003 - 12:18pm
In the interest of changing the subject back to something that is actually relevant to a SAH/WOH debate (LOL!), I will pose a question to anyone who wants to answer:

Who or what would you say was the greatest influence on your decision to SAH or WOH, whichever one you do (or want to do, if you aren't doing what you want)? Did any particular person, circumstance, situation, or anything else lead you to decide this question one way or the other?

What if two different influences conflicted? How did you make the decision then?

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Wed, 05-28-2003 - 1:01pm
Tell me *what* you don't understand, after actually looking for yourself. I answered the remedial and incredibly stupid *when do your kids eat* question. Thats enough. If you dare to look for yourself, you'll (hopefully) have the dumb questions answered. Just please spare me the intelligent guesses, like - they eat hamburgers on the way to hockey - at 6am. Sometimes, I just can't slow down enough to keep up. Sorry, but that is the way it is.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 05-28-2003 - 1:03pm
If you arent playing the game, then how is it family time? You are contradicting yourself.

Dj

"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~

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Registered: 05-13-2003
Wed, 05-28-2003 - 1:06pm
Sorry Opinion, unless your idea of eating dinner is chugging some gatorade with a powerbar chaser, I fail to see any time left for your uberchildren to dine. So, do you allow them a sit down meal, or is that just for lazy children?
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Wed, 05-28-2003 - 1:08pm
Wow. I guess I'd just rather my kids not get to the point where they spend years being out of shape and realize at 37, that they need to do something about it. Although, better late than never, certainly. Clearly, we have different ideas of what we'd like our kids to have under control by their mid 30s.
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Registered: 05-08-2003
Wed, 05-28-2003 - 1:15pm
No we don't. Thank you very much. As always laughing at your postings. See, you have completely went off on a tangent about a pregnant woman loosing weight and you know nothing about WHY I've lost that weight. I'm gestational diabetic and it is very common after speaking to several specialists and diabetic counselors not to even mention the gestational diabetic dietician through all of this that women do lose weight. See, professionals do know more about it than you think you do. Overweight isn't an issue. No you can't guess, because you have no clue about my life, my life style and how to comprehand how others choose to live different life styles and happily. Even us lifetimer housewives.

Laughing all the way tee-hee, tee-hee.

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Wed, 05-28-2003 - 1:15pm
I think it must be the same way its family time when you are running and your child is not right beside you. No, wait. When you are running, even if right beside each other, you are all focused directly on yourselves, not on each other, probably not too much on anyone else. At least when we are watching a family memeber participate, we are all focusing on the same team, action, goal. We follow our NHL team together, you know. A shared interest.
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Wed, 05-28-2003 - 1:16pm
It was the teacher's lesson plan that she inlisted the help of the parents and it was a 3wk unit of math out of a Aug-end of May school schedule. What IS your problem? Oh no, don't answer that. I know what it is, you can't comprehend those living different life styles and loving our life styles when they are so far different from yours and your precious beliefs that you believe should be universal, bawahahahaha!

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Registered: 05-13-2003
Wed, 05-28-2003 - 1:19pm
Tell a champion chess player that board games require nothing more than staring at a board.

Try to think before you speak (or type), you sound less ignorant that way.

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Wed, 05-28-2003 - 1:20pm
This last unit is the ONLY part of math in two years of school he has actually liked. He prefers science and reading. See, you don't know near as much as your think you do!

It isn't a goal to have my kid to love to go to walmart but it helps since it is a necessity he goes with me every week during school vacations/holidays. He has NO choice but to go as I don't believe in childcare/babysitters outside of grandparents caring for our children (and I know that is a whole other debate lol). One hour a week at Walmart is the grand total. If we stretch it by looking at the toys and going thru the garden department (his choice, not mine) to look at the flowers we may stay an extra 15-20minutes. It doesn't take long to grocery shop when does precisely, accurately, and exact.

Well an hour a month wouldn't stock the freezer with meat, the refrigerator with dairy products and the cabinets with food. That would be ridiculous to even try lol

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Wed, 05-28-2003 - 1:20pm
Good. So since he hates sports - even his tricycle - that was your son, right? - but you are making him take swimming, I guess you must be forcing him into sports when he doesn't like them? Why is that? BTW, who takes him to activities - the nanny, or his parents? Just curious.

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