Who has influenced your sah/woh

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Registered: 03-26-2003
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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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 02-14-2006 - 1:25pm
Very interesting.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 02-14-2006 - 1:26pm
And you? Do you do mainly corporate?


Edited 2/14/2006 1:27 pm ET by travs_mom
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Tue, 02-14-2006 - 1:27pm

Being impressed by what someone does for a living is totally different than having respect for them. FWIW, I have had many people tell me that they are impressed at my abilities to take care of four children under the age of 7 w/o being totally stressed out or crazy. Whether or not they have respect for what I do is a different story.

And no, I don't think that people are necessarily impressed by titles that convey an advanced degree. You are a lawyer, right? I'm sure you have heard plenty of lawyer jokes. There are plenty of people out there, rightly or wrongly, who have no respect for attorneys. And then there are people in fields like teaching, social work, law enforcement, professions that are often underpaid but elicit an "impressed" response from many people. Except perhaps, elitists.

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Tue, 02-14-2006 - 1:27pm
Much fluffier -- international (transactional and regulatory).

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 02-14-2006 - 1:31pm
That sounds interesting. "International" always sounds cool to me. ;) Do you have to do much travel?
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Registered: 01-18-2006
Tue, 02-14-2006 - 1:34pm
Keep telling yourself that. Everything is better or worse. That is what makes a lot of things different. Just because you might think SAH is better than DC doesn't make DC bad. Maybe you think DC is better than SAH, doesn't make SAH bad. Still one has to be better than the other. Really it is up to the individual. So I can understand why one person might say that their DC is better and why another person would say SAH is better. For our family, me SAH is much better.

 

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Tue, 02-14-2006 - 1:34pm
I can travel as much or as little as I like.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 02-14-2006 - 1:35pm

"Still one has to be better than the other."


I don't agree.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 02-14-2006 - 1:35pm
Whatever, I used the wrong word. I was just observing that people react differently to different job titles. If you say that you have never observed this, fine.
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Tue, 02-14-2006 - 1:37pm

Okay, if you insist, here's why there's no difference: kids who were raised exclusively by SAHPs are no different than kids who were in othercare and who had WOHPs. Now please explain to me why I'm wrong.

Your insistence that ratio matters makes no sense. There are different ratios in different kinds of families and in different forms of othercare. Kids are quite naturally in groups throughout their lives as kids. That's just the way it is.

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