HoneyBBQ
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Post by HoneyBBQ on Aug 21, 2013 16:05:25 GMT -5
My daughter only had an Apgar score of 9. Guess she'll have to settle for a state run university rather than Yale or Harvard.
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shanendoah
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Post by shanendoah on Aug 21, 2013 16:25:35 GMT -5
What's an Apgar score?
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HoneyBBQ
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Post by HoneyBBQ on Aug 21, 2013 16:43:10 GMT -5
Just something else mom's can compare with each other and be subject to humiliation about at the playground.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2013 16:56:49 GMT -5
Are my friends standard? Does everyone get this crap from people around them? What have you been pressured about with your kids?Try saying that you spank your kids on these boards & see the crap you get. So I guess people do get crap from others.
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 21, 2013 22:37:14 GMT -5
Ok, putting something on your resume from 20-30 years ago is weird. I was still playing ice hockey. I have taken my first job off my resume! Not my first job - like McDonald's, my first professional job. It was so long ago, and it doesn't have too much relevance when I'm looking for jobs, so, I just removed it. I know that just about every sport is considered a team sport, but do you really learn a lot of teamwork on something like tennis, swimming, track, etc, that are really based on individual achievements and you are out there on your own? I'm sure you learn a lot of discipline, hard work, self-motivation, etc. But it seems like a sport like basketball, where there are 5 of you working in the same space for the same goal and you have to depend on each other every minute of every game is a totally different thing then running a marathon or something. And if that is true, can you really ring the "teamwork" bell?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2013 23:50:39 GMT -5
Blast the quote function - won't do it correctly!!!
<<My friend has bought 100% the idea that college athletes make better professionals and every single hiring manager on the planet would choose an athlete over a non-athlete with the same experience. In fact, she believes she is more qualified than people with a decade of experience because "athletes are so driven, so everyone wants us." I have to sheepishly say "I haven't had a single athletic achievement, and I'm damn good at my job." I refrain from adding: "Much better than you would be, so fuck off." >>As a hiring manager & HR Rep for Fortune 100 companies in the last 20 years, I have to laugh. Athlete status has NEVER been a consideration in any corporate hiring decision I've been party to. Hiring decisions included up to the President/CEO of the company. Which school you went to for your MBA and what sort of hardship you endured to get it influenced who got into the MBA leadership development program. Not what level of athleticism anyone displayed. Please follow your common sense, even if the proposer's are 'cool'. Maybe you should have them mentor your kids for a strongly developed ego & coolness
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Post by Shooby on Aug 22, 2013 6:02:06 GMT -5
Critizing parenting isn't limited to babyboomers. If I had a dollar for every "Back in the day" story my MIL has. My MIL is the same generation as my grandparents. I'm sure her parents had tons of "back in the day" stories too. And we'll do the same thing when our kids have kids. It's the Circle of Life. Well, some of those "back in the day" stories are not a critique of someone else's parenting but just a trip down memory lane. Every comment made by someone is not a slam.
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Post by thyme4change on Aug 22, 2013 7:46:05 GMT -5
My husband and I talked about this. He and I are on the same page, so our neighbors are little more than an annoyance. The sports neighbor is really an accomplished gal - no question, but she does pine for grandeur. I think she comes from big thinkers, and I think she wants to be famous. And she probably wants her son to be famous. She has considered looking into acting and modeling for him. I don't think she can think any other way. My parents always had a shoot for above average - very YM. Get a good, safe degree, get a good safe job, buy a house, invest in the stock market, work for 40 years. They seemed to have succeeded three times as all her kids are happy and financially stable. I'll just keep pushing my parent's agenda, and let her beat herself up because her son "only" becomes a successful, smart guy (and because she is "only" a successful, smart lady.)
The ballerina mom - she is just artsy, and really values bringing beauty into the world. She also raised one child and that child had a single focus for nearly her entire life - becoming a ballerina, and she did. Maybe she can't even fathom that my daughter would feel excited about it, but not consumed by it.
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Post by happyhoix on Aug 22, 2013 8:09:54 GMT -5
When I was three I won a beauty contest the local photographer was running as a way to drum up business. This was exactly 50 years ago. I got a mention in the local paper and the prize - a $25 savings bond and a big ass photograph of myself in an ugly frame, which I've hidden in the attic. Maybe when I go on my next interview I should bring that big ass picture with me Set it right in the chair next to me, ugly frame and all, and wait for the interviewer to ask me about it.
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Post by Shooby on Aug 22, 2013 15:08:55 GMT -5
I have no pressure because i really don't care how someone else thinks i should raise MY children.
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