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iVillage Member
Registered: 07-19-2006
Why do "you" even care if I ......
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Wed, 02-25-2009 - 11:10pm

(You general you) am even going back to work after my toddler goes to school?


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iVillage Member
Registered: 02-22-2007
Mon, 03-23-2009 - 3:07pm
Actually, I thought I wrote those words.

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Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?

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Registered: 12-31-2008
Mon, 03-23-2009 - 3:09pm

I am sorry if my post came across that way. (seriously, I am sorry) I've spent a great deal of time trying to explain and it's not working.

So, no, I don't believe that. That statement, and I could be remembering this wrong, that I replied to stated something to the effect the providers don't raise the child. I agree, they don't, but I do believe they influence the child. I do believe during the time spend in the care of anyone else, on a regular basis during that time, that person is raising the child or helping to the child the child. I think "helping" has been termed politically correct for this board. I just worded it poorly.

And yes, I believe this when my children went to preschool and since then. I actually sent a letter to my sons preschool teacher, after he graduated, thanking her for helping me raise my son. (until that point in his life) This woman was wonderful.

I've also seen extreme cases where children listen better to their care givers then their own parents. But, I do not believe that is the norm and the dynamics of those relationships was quite different then most WOHP I've known.

Hope that makes more sense.

iVillage Member
Registered: 02-22-2007
Mon, 03-23-2009 - 3:16pm

Oh, if your point is to change people's minds, then you are probably SOL on debate boards.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 02-22-2007
Mon, 03-23-2009 - 3:19pm
Respect is not the same as SES, though.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 01-15-2006
Mon, 03-23-2009 - 3:19pm

OT but in the business section of my sunday newspaper yesterday there was a Q & A about losing a job and the embarrassment one person felt about sharing it with others.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 02-22-2007
Mon, 03-23-2009 - 3:20pm

Sadly, a lot of the teachers I know have to work during the summer because they do not make enough to carry them through 12 months.

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Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?

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Why hide your light under a bushel of bears, I ask you?
iVillage Member
Registered: 02-22-2007
Mon, 03-23-2009 - 3:23pm

Nor I, and yet I'm about to do it again.

Back on the hamster wheel. Sigh.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 01-15-2006
Mon, 03-23-2009 - 3:25pm

LOL.


don'cha know you're not supposed to say,i SAH to raise my kids if there's a WOHP in the room?!

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-07-2003
Mon, 03-23-2009 - 3:27pm
Of course, you can say whatever you want. But every time you say "I stay at home to raise my kids," about half a dozen posters are probably going to reply "I work outside the home and raise my kids." To which you'll reply, "yes, you work outside the home and raise your kids. I was just talking about me." To which they will reply "Well, you implied that one must stay at home in order to raise their kids." And then . . . You get the picture.
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iVillage Member
Registered: 02-22-2007
Mon, 03-23-2009 - 3:30pm

Ah... that is true too. I think most of us are guilty of that.

I was talking more about nowadays. I've got a teen and a tween and there are days when I feel like all I do is manage logistics. Where are those precious moments between mother and child, LOL!?!?!

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