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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (66302)12/12/1999 8:20:00 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
<<When I see all the people at Safeway struggling to figure out what 1/3 off a $1.79 item
is, I don't immediately leap into a defense of "oh, the product of a stay-at-home mom -
we need to stop this lifestyle choice IMMEDIATELY lest we as a society collapse into
economic decline..." (which is essentially the same thing as comparing my pov with
Columbine)... come on!>>

Oh, dear, Lizzie, I am afraid you are getting further and further into a bit of a mess here. Are you now suggesting that stay-at-home moms aren't as intelligent or well educated as working moms? I am not sure that is going to go over very well here, particularly because the very smartest women at SI that I know have been stay-at-home moms.

I think that where you started getting into trouble on this topic was NOT because you have your own opinion on the subject, but because you may not appreciate just how much nonworking moms pick up the slack for the ones who do work in the sense of school and community activities. In all fairness, your mother should not have put you in Scouts if she could not do her fair share of the work that it entails for parents. While it was wrong that you, a vulnerable child, bore the brunt of the bad feelings that others had about this, most working moms owe a huge debt to the stay-at-home moms who cover for them so that their children can participate. Given that this is the case, an appreciation of their efforts might be more effective than criticism.
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