What would YOU have to do to SAH?

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What would YOU have to do to SAH?
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Fri, 02-13-2009 - 5:09pm

If you're a WOH/WAH mom, what sort of "downsizing" would you need to do in order to afford to be a SAHM? (SAHM defined here as not earning any money)

For me, I would have to put all our non-essential possessions in storage and move in with my parents.

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Thu, 02-26-2009 - 5:34pm
No, sorry, my mistake.
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Thu, 02-26-2009 - 5:41pm

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That's not too bad. I had one that lasted till the end of 6th grade. My dd sometimes STILL does that and she's in her 8th grade year!

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Thu, 02-26-2009 - 5:41pm

I was curious specifically about whether there are studies on ESL parents helping kids with homework.

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Thu, 02-26-2009 - 6:38pm
I don't know, but you seem to have issues with the idea of "family projects."
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Thu, 02-26-2009 - 6:42pm
Could be.
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Thu, 02-26-2009 - 7:05pm

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Thu, 02-26-2009 - 7:18pm

I think I have issues with school-assigned required family projects. If they are optional or supplemental and ungraded, I'm cool with them.

Last week, school sent home a lesson about the comet Lulin; we went for a walk as a family late one chilly night and we identified Saturn and we think we saw the comet with our binoculars. I also got to point out the sum of my remembered knowledge from astronomy class many, many, moons ago. It was fun family time with a smattering of education.

Several of the projects assigned to my daughter in elementary school were discontinued by the time my sons got to those grades because the projects were obviously done by the parents, e.g. building a Titanic model. The teachers said that they did find some very talented parents to help with some artistic volunteer projects with that assignment, though.

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Thu, 02-26-2009 - 7:26pm

Yes, you must have missed Hazel's shock that parents would be allowed to help in the classroom, and similar posts.


Even with respect to homework, it certainly seems to me that if parents ensure that homework is done and concepts are grasped at the time homework is assigned, the whole class can move on to more difficult matter more quickly than if only teachers take on this job.

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Thu, 02-26-2009 - 7:32pm

Our school discontinued the California Mission building project for the same reason -- parents were actually hiring people to build the missions for their children.

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Thu, 02-26-2009 - 8:21pm

Lol.

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