Posted on 09/12/2013 9:41:34 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
They both make around 20/hr for a total of 60 hrs/week. Not top salary but top care for the baby. We all live in multi-generational homes. Love and care is overflowing. Sometimes the elders need as much care as the little ones. But keeping an eye /ear out for little ones gives them a feeling of self worth - joy!
We are blessed!
My older border collie has tumors and will be gone soon. So we bought a younger gal she could train.
Young Alexis should be horse-whipped for each day she was employed by this family.
Competence has nothing to do with my argument. It has to do with what is best for the child and his/her family. So, the most competent person to raise the baby should be the baby’s own momma - she has at least 7 or 8 months to educate herself and prepare for her baby once she knows she’s pregnant. You simply cannot pay someone to care more than you do about your own child. Daddies can stay home, too, but they are not hardwired for it, no matter what Hollywood tells us in their dumb movies.
Men are unemployed & underemployed, I think, because of the 40+ year feminist war against them in the work place (and the universities and any other Leftie stronghold). Good jobs that pay well have degraded & declined when large numbers of women went to work. Most jobs aren’t all that and a bag of chips, especially when it means leaving your baby to someone else to raise. I know there are women who absolutely shouldn’t stay at home with their kids because they really don’t want to be there. It was supposed to be about “choice” - right???
Both parents are responsible for the care and raising of their children.
Childcare is a skill—the more it is practiced, the better one becomes at it.
You are still implicitly arguing that the unemployed men are incompetent, while the employed women *are* competent.
Competent men have no need to believe that competent women are a threat to their careers or ability to obtain a job.
Competent women have no need to believe that competent men are a threat to their work or ability to obtain a job.
Incompetent men and women convince themselves that women and/or men are responsible for their inability to move up the ladder/get a job/get a better job.
Competence has nothing to do with my argument.
Of course it does; if, as you argue, men are unemployed *because* women are employed, and if employers are hiring women for tasks, it follows that employers are hiring women because they display sufficient competence for those jobs.
Whereas the unemployed men lack the competence for those jobs.
The solution is not to take the incompetent way out and blame the opposite sex, but to increase one’s competence and skill set—there are plenty of jobs for men with the right skill sets.
May I ask: How old are you, how long have you been in the work place, and are you female?
This is one incident where we deffinetly would not want the police involved.
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Really. Shovels are above their expertise.....
Both questions are irrelevant to your argument.
If a man is out of work, his task is to improve his skill set and do whatever he needs to do to be marketable to employers, or start his own business, not blame his unemployment/underemployment on others.
If a woman is out of work, her task is to improve her skill set and do whatever she needs to do to be marketable to employers or start her own business, not blame her unemployment/underemployment on others.
Personal responsibility: it also means not blaming the opposite sex for your down times in life.
Novel idea, that.
Simply the most effective application of Shakespearian acting ever caught on film.
I’ve got one that “sweeps the room”, then pauses and repeats the process randomly.
Even folks who have been told it’s a fake are more cautious when iy’s in the room...
Kinda makes you wonder...
Actually I asked you three questions, and I would add a fourth: have you ever given birth? Based on your non-responses, I will go out on a limb and say you are a college-educated female under age 40, and if you have a child/children, you are fine with them being raised by someone else while you go to your important job.
Skill sets, competence, keeping up with the needs of the work place - all are imperative for everyone who wants to stay employed. Nothing I said implies otherwise, no matter how many times you want to redirect the discussion. You are taking this into the Twilight Zone - this is not about Blame but about that personal responsibility you refer to as it pertains to raising a child.
I remember those days. A lot of the moms did charity work during the day as the kids grew older and were off to school.
Then the 'Great Society", moms to work things started, and charity became the gubmint's purview, and pretty soon, with inflation, a lot of moms had to work, just to make ends meet.
Those early years sure seem to be the time kids learn a lot, including basic behaviour and the basic bonding between parent and child develops considerably.
Nuts. Anyone who is raising even one two year-old is definitely working. (It may be an absolute joy, but it is work!)
In some companies, the most competent (and most expensive) are the first to go.
The thought is that the next tier is competent enough, and that newer employees are cheaper so more warm bodies can be retained.
With others it is an up (the ladder) or out approach to climbing the corporate pyramid, where the very best (or most aggressive, anyway) make it to the next level. Those who do not make it are out.
BTW, I'm not saying that I agree with those management styles, but I have seen both in action.
It isn't just the newest or the dead weight who get the pink slip. It isn't always the best who are retained. More often the decision is one of average cost effectiveness.
“Nuts. Anyone who is raising even one two year-old is definitely working. (It may be an absolute joy, but it is work!)”
Obviously I meant working outside of the home.
Not to mention that when most the moms were at home, kids could safely go outside and play after school. Now they come home, stay inside by themselves playing video games and eating whatever they want...hence the weight issues and boredom etc.
So take the kid out in the yard. Say what you mean, I don’t even pretend to read minds.
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