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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| I like telling kids about how in elementary we had no homework or hagwons, and instead would take a few books, pile them on top of each other, put one end of a wooden board on the pile to make a ramp and drive our bikes over it. I thought everybody skinned at least one elbow or knee every time they went outside. |
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bellum99
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: don't need to know
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:46 pm Post subject: the mothers don't like spending time with the kids |
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| The truth is that the mothers don't want to spend time with the kids. There really isn't much parenting when the kids are never home. The average housewife must spend less than a couple hours a day with their children. |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:58 pm Post subject: Re: the mothers don't like spending time with the kids |
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| bellum99 wrote: |
| The truth is that the mothers don't want to spend time with the kids. There really isn't much parenting when the kids are never home. The average housewife must spend less than a couple hours a day with their children. |
Having to spend time with children is horrible.. it really cuts down on the amount of time you can spend with your boyfriend before your husband gets home. |
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funplanet
Joined: 20 Jun 2003
Location: The new Bucheon!
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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LMAO!!!!!!  |
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paperbag princess
Joined: 07 Mar 2004
Location: veggie hell
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| kids suck. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 10:22 pm Post subject: Re: the mothers don't like spending time with the kids |
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| bellum99 wrote: |
| The truth is that the mothers don't want to spend time with the kids. There really isn't much parenting when the kids are never home. The average housewife must spend less than a couple hours a day with their children. |
I spend 24 hours with my baby  |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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| paperbag princess wrote: |
| kids suck. |
No they don't!!! Kids only suck because you don't know how to handle them, they don't suck!!!  |
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Gollum
Joined: 04 Sep 2003
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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| tzechuk wrote: |
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| kids suck. |
No they don't!!! Kids only suck because you don't know how to handle them, they don't suck!!! |
I take it you don't breastfeed? |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 2:28 am Post subject: |
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The Cost of Raising a Child (Manitoba Agriculture and Food)
Cost of raising a boy to age 18 (Total cost in Canadian dollars)
== $166,971 (or 139,209,969 Korean won) ==
Cost of raising a girl to age 18 (Total cost in Canadian dollars)
== $166,549 (or 138,858,131 Korean won) ==
http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/homeec/coc2004/cba28s02.html
Estimated Financial Costs (Total cost in U.S. dollars)
With College: 335,420 - 448,294
Without College: 202,122 - 297,036 (until 18 years old)
NOTE: These figures are averages drawn from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 2000 Annual Report "Expenditures on Children by Families." College costs are averages drawn from the report "Trends in College Pricing: 2001."
http://www.babycenter.com/costofchild/
How much will it cost to raise a child?
http://www.sunlife-usa.com/tool/tl_5.cfm
Canadian kids are cheaper
http://www.straightgoods.com/Boutin/010416.asp |
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guangho
Joined: 19 Jan 2005
Location: a spot full of deception, stupidity, and public micturation and thus unfit for longterm residency
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Kids are often viewed as status symbols both here and in the West. "My kid is an Honor Student at Barely Literate Academy" "My boy just finished school and joined the Fudgepackers Union, Local 669" "I have the purtiest little girl yanno- she has hair". Few parents think about or spend much time on or with their kids-that's what hakwons, PC bangs, babysitters, grandparents and television are for. Tzechuk excepted of course  |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 6:26 am Post subject: |
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| Gollum wrote: |
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| paperbag princess wrote: |
| kids suck. |
No they don't!!! Kids only suck because you don't know how to handle them, they don't suck!!! |
I take it you don't breastfeed? |
You are wrong. I exclusively breastfeed. I will do it until baby is about 5 months old (more if I can convince her to hold on that long.. she keeps looking at us when we eat now!!), then I will introduce solids.. rice cereals and vegetables etc... and I will let her wean herself off my boobs until she is ready, be it 12 months, 18 months, 2 years.. I don't care. She is my baby |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| guangho wrote: |
| Kids are often viewed as status symbols both here and in the West. "My kid is an Honor Student at Barely Literate Academy" "My boy just finished school and joined the Fudgepackers Union, Local 669" "I have the purtiest little girl yanno- she has hair". Few parents think about or spend much time on or with their kids-that's what hakwons, PC bangs, babysitters, grandparents and television are for. Tzechuk excepted of course |
Letty won't be going to school until she is 7 - when she goes to junior school in the UK.
I was forced to go to kindergarten when I was 2.5 years old. I learned to write my complicated chinese name and my ABC by the time I was 4. I don't want my baby to have to go through all that. Before she goes to school, I intend to homeschool her. Let her learn mostly through play and without the kind of pressure they put on kids at school. Children have to be children before they have to grow up - time passes too fast, I don't want her to feel that her whole childhood is consumed by study when she is an adult (which is how I feel now, tbh...). I would feel far too guilty if it happened to her. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 6:37 am Post subject: |
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| tzechuk wrote: |
| guangho wrote: |
| Kids are often viewed as status symbols both here and in the West. "My kid is an Honor Student at Barely Literate Academy" "My boy just finished school and joined the Fudgepackers Union, Local 669" "I have the purtiest little girl yanno- she has hair". Few parents think about or spend much time on or with their kids-that's what hakwons, PC bangs, babysitters, grandparents and television are for. Tzechuk excepted of course |
Letty won't be going to school until she is 7 - when she goes to junior school in the UK.
I was forced to go to kindergarten when I was 2.5 years old. I learned to write my complicated chinese name and my ABC by the time I was 4. I don't want my baby to have to go through all that. Before she goes to school, I intend to homeschool her. Let her learn mostly through play and without the kind of pressure they put on kids at school. Children have to be children before they have to grow up - time passes too fast, I don't want her to feel that her whole childhood is consumed by study when she is an adult (which is how I feel now, tbh...). I would feel far too guilty if it happened to her. |
Now that's good parenting!!! (like I would know....) But it sounds right. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 11:57 am Post subject: |
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| tzechuk wrote: |
| Gollum wrote: |
| tzechuk wrote: |
| paperbag princess wrote: |
| kids suck. |
No they don't!!! Kids only suck because you don't know how to handle them, they don't suck!!! |
I take it you don't breastfeed? |
You are wrong. I exclusively breastfeed. |
Someone either didn't pick up the joke and/or doesn't appriciate puns... |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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| bucheon bum wrote: |
| tzechuk wrote: |
| Gollum wrote: |
| tzechuk wrote: |
| paperbag princess wrote: |
| kids suck. |
No they don't!!! Kids only suck because you don't know how to handle them, they don't suck!!! |
I take it you don't breastfeed? |
You are wrong. I exclusively breastfeed. |
Someone either didn't pick up the joke and/or doesn't appriciate puns... |
bucheon bum,
Maybe it just sucked? |
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