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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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 06-02-2003 - 12:58pm
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Tons of museums. A few plays. Some concerts. Most recently, Avril Lavigne, and the a world class symphony orchestra.

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A room full of books. They have no choice about the library, its a required school activity. They are also allowed to pick books from bookstores, and from the monthly school fundraising activities.

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He's 3. Oh, clearly you know exactly what you are talking about. What if he's good at gym and likes it...thats going to be 20hrs at 9yrs old.

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Thats what I think.

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Huh. Nope, I just don't see how having downtime requires a one-activity limit per kid.

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Registered: 11-20-2001
Mon, 06-02-2003 - 1:01pm
Have you or they had yearly blood sugar screenings? My GP had stopped doing them five years after my pregnancy ... and three years ago after I had suffered thru two years of several uncomfortable UTI's, kidney infections, and a D&C, it was then that my OB-GYN realized I hadn't been tested for sugars. DUH. I control the diabetes by diet and exercise ... no meds, yet. My mother is 72, was diagnosed 11yrs ago and was started on insulin last month, she just didn't take care with her diet. My mother had seven full term pregnancies ... no one checked her for gestational diabetes. No one in her family had it at the time ... her mom was diagnosed at age 78 after years of being treated for a number of vaginal infections. Some doctors don't think to check. My grandmother had eight full term babies. I am 50yo, btw, and had two full term pregnancies ... three children.

My suggestion is to make sure your GP does FBS yearly ... Fasting Blood Sugars. I wouldn't have I had to suffer thru those awful two years.

Linda

 

Linda - wife, mother, grandmum                     &nb

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Mon, 06-02-2003 - 1:07pm
No, they didn't. You had one active son, he seems to have stayed that way. Maybe if the sports had been more of a family persuit he'd have liked the teams sports better? I don't know...was he encouraged to try out for the rep teams and stuff, did he achieve anything? Or if he didn't really like soccer and baseball, why did you keep him in it? Maybe skiing, skating, snowboarding, skatboarding, martial arts, or something else of an individual/daring nature would have been more to his likeing? Directed him out of so much trouble as he got older? Thats one thing all the parents of accomplished teen athletes keep telling me "I'm so glad they are so busy with their sports...no time to get into trouble".

And why wasn't your daughter involved? I do know, from my generation, no shortage of women who can complain to the stars about how their brothers had all the sports opportunities, the girls nothing.

I'd like to see the stats on healthy adults vs active kids.

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Registered: 11-20-2001
Mon, 06-02-2003 - 1:07pm
Friendly's ... omg, lol. Girlfriend, there are so many out in this neck of the woods you can't drive 15 minutes without passing one!

Linda

 

Linda - wife, mother, grandmum                     &nb

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Mon, 06-02-2003 - 1:14pm
I don't know, O. I'm one of those who spent all her time reading as a child. Sure, I played with and ran around with a group of neighbor kids. But we were very poor. Mostly I babysat my brothers and sister -- lugged them all to the park, minded them in the yard, kept them entertained, etc etc. I never really did "pick up" games per se. I used to read constantly, so much that people, including my mother and step-father and teachers, took away my books.

Funny, but reading didn't seem to hurt me. I was the fastest runner in my school well into 8th grade. I have three Presidential Physical Fitness Awards. I ran track and x-country in high school. Have always swam and used to play tennis off and on. I also roller skated for years.

All that reading did have one benefit. It meant I could converse on just about any topic with anyone, no matter what their job title or education level. Probably why my husband adores me -- because I can carry on a decent conversation.

outside_the_box_mom

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Registered: 05-08-2003
Mon, 06-02-2003 - 1:16pm
All of my family, including myself, have full tests run yearly/bi-yearly on everything. Since I did not have gestational diabetes (not even close) with my first pregnancy it wasn't a big issue, just a regular check. I'm only borderline (very borderline) this time thankfully. But I will be checked regularly especially now on having the GD history now to make sure everything is oK. Plus I have my own AccuCheck so I can closely monitor it outside of the couple tests at the dr's offices every yr.
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Mon, 06-02-2003 - 1:16pm
Whatever I'm doing seems to be a very effective debate techinque. The more times people resort to tryng to use something I've actually included as part of my position, as a rebuttal to my position, the better I'm doing. It means one of three things

a)the rebuttal was penned by someone who is not too smart

b)the rebuttal was penned by someone who can't come up with a rebuttal, but is counting on being able to use my own position against me by invoking a particular tone (works on a good percentage of the board, just not me and maybe a handfull of others)

c)the rebuttal has nothing to do with what was posted, but the poster just wants to disagree with Opinion123 - probably hasn't read any of the actual debate (often hard to differentiate poster type c) from poster type a)).

Any which way, I'm doing great.

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Registered: 05-08-2003
Mon, 06-02-2003 - 1:17pm
Btw. What are the NORMAL readings for a diabetic non-pregnant person?

I check fasting in the morning and I check 2hrs after each meal = 4x day

(my OB said I only had to 3 days a week since I'm doing so wonderful, but I still check it alot more than that).

TIA and hope you don't mind my asking.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 06-02-2003 - 1:20pm
I can't possibly see how those two are a one or the other.

Are you saying that you never really considered it your responsiblity as a parent to try and encourage your children towards being physically fit and healthy?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 06-02-2003 - 1:23pm
Hmm. Maybe you need some better computer games. Have you ever tried shooting the monsters though?

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