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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Mon, 02-23-2009 - 4:07pm

I love it, it's great stuff.....everything is online, including the buzz book, teacher's web pages, schedules, daily announcements, homework for 7th and 8th grade, if he was late to class...everything is at my fingertips, lol.

PumpkinAngel

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Mon, 02-23-2009 - 4:12pm

We don't have this at my kid's school and I'm divided on how I feel about it. My friend looks up her 7th grader's grades all the time and is constantly on her about stuff, I feel that by 7th grade the kid needs to gain some responsibility and do the work becaus she should not because mom is bugging her. On the other hand I feel like if our school had it my 6th grader's grades would not have been so bad last 9 weeks so like

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Mon, 02-23-2009 - 4:14pm
That's excellent for your children. I worry about the children who don't have parents who are able and/or willing to help them.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Mon, 02-23-2009 - 4:15pm

<<How does a third grader test himself on spelling, or American history, anyway?>>


My kids didn't have spelling or history tests on

PumpkinAngel

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Mon, 02-23-2009 - 4:16pm

There have been a number of large projects in the upper grades at my son's school that have moved to in classroom work because instead of the children doing the work on their own, it was clear (from the test results) that parents were working with them on a daily basis so it was a parent/child project instead of a parent project.


PumpkinAngel

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Mon, 02-23-2009 - 4:17pm

Yes, that is what we do as well...not sitting with them doing homework, but taking what they have learned and finding a way to apply it outside of the classroom or home.


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Mon, 02-23-2009 - 4:19pm

Would you agree that it doesn't require a parent sitting with a child on a daily basis, working with a child for them to complete their homework in order for that to occur?


PumpkinAngel

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Mon, 02-23-2009 - 4:20pm

This has happened in my children's school as well. The 7th graders just finished up a whole unit study on a country of their choice and had to make posters, cook up a dish associated with the country (and provide 70 servings of same!), learn about the country's political system, art and music, popular culture, etc -- and they were forbidden to even tell their parents what country they were working on before they presented at "cultural arts day" last week.

Our only help was to help the kid figure out how to take a recipe written in metric and convert it to English measurements, and then help him figure out how to quintuple it to decide how much of the various ingredients we needed to buy.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Mon, 02-23-2009 - 4:21pm

He has one, at this age, unless I choose to homeschool him, there isn't one in the area that we can afford.


PumpkinAngel

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Mon, 02-23-2009 - 4:21pm
oh forgot to add that I don't

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