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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Registered: 02-05-2009
Mon, 03-02-2009 - 4:40pm
Thank you. Nicely worded.
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Mon, 03-02-2009 - 4:41pm

It's part of our "Sunday Night", we sit around the dining room table after dinner or gather later if there is an event and we pull up the family calendar online and we all compare schedules, with the boys (including dh, lol) writing down the weeks activities.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 01-20-2009
Mon, 03-02-2009 - 4:41pm
You need to make painful consequences occur as a result of them not being invested in their homework being turned in.
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Registered: 02-05-2009
Mon, 03-02-2009 - 4:42pm
Dh and dd would be able to do it together just fine. They don't have the same friction in those types of situations.
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Registered: 01-20-2009
Mon, 03-02-2009 - 4:43pm
If the natural consequence doesn't work, you need to come up with an artificial one.
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Registered: 01-20-2009
Mon, 03-02-2009 - 4:43pm
ROFL!
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Mon, 03-02-2009 - 4:45pm
Why would you have to discipline? The kid ultimately has to decide if he wants good grades or not. I would certainly give such a kid some serious and repeated council, partly in the hope of making myself so tiresome to the kid that shaping up would seem less painful by comparison (so a form of stealth discipline, I grant you), but in the end the kid has to own it, IMO, one way or the other.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Mon, 03-02-2009 - 4:46pm

<<1. If both kids do homework from 5-8pm, where is there "6 hours" of help from mom? It is STILL a total of

PumpkinAngel

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Mon, 03-02-2009 - 4:46pm
Because the original post that started the "three hours" discussion was about a mom spending 3-hours, hands-on, one-on-one, deeply involved with her child.
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Mon, 03-02-2009 - 4:46pm

I don't think even a bright 9 year old can really realize how important certain kinds of discipline will be in adult life.

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