WOHM's who say they have to work

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WOHM's who say they have to work
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Sun, 10-29-2006 - 4:17pm

For those of you that WOH and say you have to do it to make ends meet. Do you really do it to make ends meet or do you do it cause you want to keep up a certain lifestyle? Do you know how to live with out debt or without having to keep up with the joneses?


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Registered: 06-30-2006
Tue, 10-31-2006 - 8:41am
Not odd at all. What I find odd is the idea of a dcp thinking the scope of her responsibility extends to speculating about the nature of the relationship between parents and kids, or questioning a parent's decision about how to spend their time. Time which the dcp is being paid to cover. What difference could it possibly make to you what a parent is doing while his child is in your care, as long as he's reachable?

Sabina


Sabina

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,

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Registered: 07-26-2006
Tue, 10-31-2006 - 8:55am
Who said that?
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Registered: 07-26-2006
Tue, 10-31-2006 - 8:58am
Just to clarify for you again that this isn't a concern for me at all. Just a clear observation that I have made in a situation that I am involved in. An observation that the mother has made and isn't happy with either. No concern for me...I enjoy the extra money.
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Registered: 06-30-2006
Tue, 10-31-2006 - 9:04am
In your post 196, "I can't help that she prefers me over him". - so you weren't talking about love or anything like that, but then what were you talking about?

Sabina


Sabina

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,

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Registered: 06-30-2006
Tue, 10-31-2006 - 9:07am
Nice of you to try to clarify, but for me it's not working. You're not concerned about a dad who's late for pickup because he's watching TV. I wouldn't be, either. But then I probably wouldn't even mention it. Unless I was using it to make a point. Not that I can figure out what point that could possibly be. Maybe you can try to clarify that, too?

Sabina


Sabina

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,

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Tue, 10-31-2006 - 9:08am
Well a fact doesn't make it appropriate. I highly doubt you would like some of the things I have seen you mentioned about your life to be slapped in your face here. Again your statement was highly inappropriate and uncalled for.
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Registered: 01-05-2000
Tue, 10-31-2006 - 9:11am

Sure they do. It's not like deployment was a deep, dark secret when they signed up. Deployment is common knowledge, just like long, unreasonable hours for drs, nurses, police, firefighters, etc.

Chris

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Tue, 10-31-2006 - 9:11am
And actually, deployment is a certainty for those military members in the Navy/Marines. Even during peacetime, they regularly go out on multi-month cruises during their 'ship duty' tours.
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Tue, 10-31-2006 - 9:12am

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I disagree. It's a completely valid point; you're just uncomfortable because most Americans don't want to sound critical of their armed servicemembers. But the truth is, in ANY other job, you'd be skewering alive anyone who admitted to CHOOSING to spend months at a time away from their kids, particularly women. Heck you're defending the criticism of parents who see their kids every single day, but only briefly. You can't legitimately claim it's uncalled for to criticize parents who deliberately chose to put themselves in a position to be deployed for months at a time--which basically consists of every parent in the US military, as it's an all volunteer force.

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