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The Working Mom and Custody Issues
| Mon, 11-30-2009 - 8:24pm |
There was an article in this month's Working mother magazine about wrking mom's losing custody to SAHD's.

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Supervised but the level of supervision may vary greatly.
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I think unsupervised is easier to define in black and white terms. If nobody is around, nobody can see them, nobody knows exactly what they are doing, won't hear them or might randomly walk in on them, they are unsupervised. If supervised, they could be watched, heard, checked on, etc. I definitely feel I am supervising my kids when I can hear them, they don't become unsupervised when I turn my back to do the dishes, or leave the room for a bit.
Do the teachers know who is in the building and check on them occasionally?
I think schools handle this by closing things up, turning out the lights and locking the doors when the adults leave. If things are open and activities are going on, usually there are teachers and/or parents involved in some capacity. That doesn't mean kids couldn't be hanging out unsupervised outside on the school grounds after school, if the parents let them that is.
Ten Rules for Being Human
Malcolm Gladwell Blink
i'm familiar enough with school to know hwen things occur, school plays are in the evening, her second school dance is friday, DD has never experessed interest in sticking around to watch a sport so i can't comment there.
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I think you are forgetting the suburban district that I live in currently...it's common there as well.
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What kids?
PumpkinAngel
OH yes, it's very much like the neighborhood watch that she talked about, I really like that my kids feel like their school is a neighborhood....a community.
PumpkinAngel
Well said.....
PumpkinAngel
So again, if she wanted and asked to stay after school to watch a game or something else, what then?
PumpkinAngel
Ten Rules for Being Human
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