Who is raising your children?
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Who is raising your children?
| Wed, 07-08-2009 - 3:15pm |
First a few disclaimers - if you are a single or divorced parent, you probably don't have a choice between being a SAHP or a WOHP, (unless you are independently wealthy and then i'm very jealous of you!), most likely you have to WOH to be able to provide the basics for your children.
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I WOH, my husband is a retail manager so his schedule varies week to week, my kids spend anywhere from 15 -
BOTTOM LINE is that the responsibility for how they've turned out is MINE (and ex and dh too).
what i think is parental responsibility might differ from somebody else but i do totally agree here.
Outside of my dh and I, we are raising our children ourselves when it comes to the main decisions, values that we wish to impart on our children, morales that we wish to teach and so forth including finances....what we do have help with is executing those pieces....but none of those people help us make the decisions to begin with.
PumpkinAngel
Yes, that's a very good point, those are not interchangeable terms.
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PumpkinAngel
True. But question about the hours of sleep does keep coming up.
Chris
The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett
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I don't think you need to co-sleep or bf for those hours to count.
"Even at 10 hours per day/5 days per week -- that's 50 hours per week -- leaving 118 hours per week. Sure some of that is sleeping time -- however, mom is there if the child wakes up from a nightmare or teething pain."
And if you co-sleep, you can even count those hours. Especially if the kid in question doesn't night wean until after his 2nd birthday.
Chris
The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett
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