Who has influenced your sah/woh

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Who has influenced your sah/woh
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Thu, 02-09-2006 - 2:39pm

opinion to DIFFER. What I mean is--is there anyone on this board or in real life whose opinion/reasoning/debating/facts started to make your thinking more to the middle? As in if you thought sah or woh was best & then after some discussion/thought, you began to think that whatever is best for each family--really there is no one best way, etc.

We just really needed a new thread here!!!!!!!!

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Wed, 02-22-2006 - 9:42pm
Well, let's face it--sleeping on the ground isn't as comfortable as sleeping in a bed. It's not exactly horrifying though.... ;)
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Wed, 02-22-2006 - 9:44pm

I always sleep great the second night, after all the exercise. But the first night I tend to notice the ground isn't as nice as my bed. Now if we were in an rv, that would be different.

Not sure what you mean about the motel 6. I was just saying my friend's idea of camping is staying at a motel 6. He doesn't like camping, and thinks motel 6 is roughing it.

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Wed, 02-22-2006 - 9:46pm
We love camping too. And for me, although there's no room service, my dh always cooks. He doesn't like me messing with any of his campstoves--such a sacrifice for me.
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Wed, 02-22-2006 - 9:50pm

"For all intensive purposes .... "


Sorry, I just can't let this malaproprism go.

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Wed, 02-22-2006 - 9:52pm

LOL - my kids prefer to go to dad in the night time - mom tends to be crankier!

I *like* when my kids go to dh with their problems. It reinforces me knowing what a good relationship they have with their dad, even though I am the SAHP.

Carrie

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Wed, 02-22-2006 - 10:57pm
i was definately a sneaker when i was growing up. my middle daugher is one, but my oldest is not, she is the one that until recently i wasnt certain i wasnt going to have to go to college with her to get her to leave home. she is very open and outgoing and tends to share alot with me, perhaps becuase she likes to talk so much :)
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Wed, 02-22-2006 - 11:37pm
That my friend, was pathetic.
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Wed, 02-22-2006 - 11:51pm

It's not exactly horrifying though.... ;)

Not til you wake in the middle of the night because you have to pee really bad and you're so stiff you can barely move, let alone stand.

Or so I've been told .... ;)

Karen


" says, "Navy makes a very strong statement." I guess so. It says, "I'm boring." Or, "I'd like this job here at the bank.""


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"Veronica: "I hate fake deer too. Every time I see their stupid fake-deer faces I want to grab a shotgun and go all Cheney on 'em." Sure, but since fake deer don't talk, they won't

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Thu, 02-23-2006 - 12:11am
She is also getting vitamins that she would not be getting in the bread.
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Thu, 02-23-2006 - 12:31am

As my edocrinologist has explained, you can't "head off" Type II Diabetes. it isn't caused by obesity; obesity is simply a common vehicle by which Type II Diabetes makes itself known. Type II is genetic; it's a predisposition by a person's cells to become resistant to insulin which acts as a key to permit sugar (aka carbohydrates) into the cells for fuel. Type II diabetics produce insulin, but their cells require much more insulin to unlock to the sugars than a normal person's cells. (Type I diabetics don't produce any insulin at all).

By contrast, Type II diabetics often produce much more insulin than a normal person's for the same levels of blood sugar. Obesity becomes the vehicle for Type II emergence because obese people typically eat more (and therefore their blood carries more sugar); for someone genetically disposed to insulin resistance, their pancreas is simply overwhelmed by the amount of sugar it must try to address. But obesity didn't CAUSE the diabetes and avoiding obesity does NOT prevent Type II diabetes. If you're going to get diabetes, you're going to get it. Period.

One of the ladies in my diabetes support group has Type II. She's a marathon runner and 20 lbs UNDERweight. She's also unable to control her diabetes without medication and that's not a reflection on her own poor habits, but simply because her body is resistant to the insulin and requires medical assistance.

If it's vitamins your daughter needs from the apples, she'd get more of them from various veggies with her peanut butter (carrots, red bell peppers, cukes) with a lot less sugar and more bulk (more satisfying for her).

You're setting yourselves up for "failure" if the aim is to "avoid" something your daughter is predisposed to get anyway. And it's kinda mean to set a kid up to think that her food choices are to blame for something she was going to get no matter what she did. Of course, you haven't really answered anyone's questions about whether or not the doctor has said this is an issue. Food isn't the enemy to diabetes; lack of understanding about what it is and what it does and what causes diabetes is the enemy. Food doesn't cause diabetes. Neither does obesity.

Karen


" says, "Navy makes a very strong statement." I guess so. It says, "I'm boring." Or, "I'd like this job here at the bank.""


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"Veronica: "I hate fake deer too. Every time I see their stupid fake-deer faces I want to grab a shotgun and go all Cheney on 'em." Sure, but since fake deer don't talk, they won't

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