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October 4, 2005, 2:48 pm PDT

10/05 Moms: Cut the Chaos

 I have three girls, ages 4, 5 and 4months.  I am a stay-at-home mom and also home school because the public school in our area has proven to be an unsafe environment for our daughter.  It can be very stressful managing the laundry, dishes, meals, cleaning, home school curriculum, breastfeeding, taking care of the dog, etc.  Luckily I am a naturally organized person so it isn't quite as bad as it could be, but still can get chaotic at times.  I try to get the kids out as much as possible (we went to the local Natural History Center today for a "field trip") so that the house can stay as organized as possible while I still teach the children. 
 
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October 4, 2005, 2:56 pm PDT

Did I miss something?

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THAT HOUSE MUST SMELL LIKE THE GARBAGE DUMP........HOW UNSANITARY IS ALL THAT PEE AND POOP?  ALL FOUR-LEGGED ANIMALS SIT ON THEIR RECTUMS AND ANYONE WHO WILL WALK, SIT and SLEEP ON "THAT "  is living dangerously and filthily.
Most people don't let their dogs pee and poop all over their house.  I have a dog (a Golden Retriver) and she's very clean.  Are you suggesting that people not walk on a floor that a dog has sat on?  I hope you don't have children! 
 
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October 4, 2005, 3:30 pm PDT

10/04 Ask Dr. Phil

Quote From: zimexlady

.....and yes, my three kids have outside pets....only fish indoors.
 So it's not that you don't like pets, you just don't agree with them being in the house?  (my husband is the same way...only difference is I'm more persistent than he is).  I guess I can't knock your reasoning but I do think it's quite funny.  Why do you have dogs if they stay outside all the time? 
 
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October 5, 2005, 7:28 am PDT

10/07 The Latest Debates

Quote From: mks22878

Ok, I never breast feed my two girls but i also feel that there is a proper place to breast feed i mean have some kinda respect for those around u its not about the right to do it in public there is just a right and a wrong place to do it.  And as far as passing out condoms in school what the hell are u parents thinking i mean gee u are basically tells your kids thats its ok to do it because u are protected ahhh no how about u try being a parent and not hoping that the condom will do the parenting for u .. What is wrong with simple sitting down and talking to your kids about sex let them trust u enough that if they are considering it that they will at least come to you .. instead of going to a girl and say hey lets have sex my mom says its ok she even gave me protecting then they will start influsing the girls and then u have a chain reaction..
Why would it be disrespectful to anyone around me to breastfeed my baby?  Am I hurting them in some way?  Would you rather listen to my baby screaming the entire time?  Wouldn't that be more offensive?  I'm not saying that women should just walk around with their breast exposed and not show some form of modesty, but since you have two children of your own, I would think that you would understand that when your  baby is hungry, she needs to eat!  What did you do when you were out in public and your baby needed to eat?  I'm pretty sure you didn't leave the store and go home so you could have privacy.   I have gone in the bathroom to nurse, and even out to my van, and STILL got dirty looks, and I was completely covered!!!  I have an obligation to take care of her needs.  If someone else is offended by that, they're just going to have to get over it. 
 
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October 5, 2005, 7:33 am PDT

Thank you!

Quote From: mama2e

I have an idea for those who don't like to see women nursing in public.  Whenever and wherever you see a nursing woman feeding her child in public, go complain not to the mom but to the manager, supervisor, the most important person you can find.  Tell them how wrong you feel it is, but make sure you tell them that nursing moms should have a separate "mother's" room with rocking chairs, a nice changing table, maybe some soft music playing and a vending machine with soda, coffee, snacks, etc.  A nice massage chair wouldn't be bad either.  Maybe a little play area for the older tots.  If every place I went had something like that, I'd NEVER nurse out in pubice, lol! 

  

Sorry, don't mean to make light of this topic.  But wouldn't you rather nurse in a room like that than out on some bench somewhere getting glared at?  I know I would! 

 I agree with your statement whole-heartedly!  It's so frustrating going into a place that doesn't even have a changing table!  Considering the number of people who breastfeed, there SHOULD be a mother's room in all public places.  I mean, there are just as many nursing babies (if not more) than there are people in wheelchairs...why not make a place, "nursing mother accessible"? ****Please note for those who like to find offense in other's posts, that I in no way meant this statement in a derogatory way against folks in wheelchairs****
 
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October 5, 2005, 3:07 pm PDT

10/05 Moms: Cut the Chaos

Quote From: mrsmedic

We seem to be on the road too much, leaving too little time at home to clean! Because of my MS I am always tired, so I need to nap in the afternoon.  The big kids (12 and 16) watch the little ones (3 and a disabled 10 yr old) for me a lot, which helps, but then I hate to ask them to do so much cleaning after they've done childcare! It's a challenge, without a doubt. 

  

 My hat's off to you!  It sounds like you have your plate full.  I know what you mean about hating to ask the children to help, but everyone I know that has been the child doing the helping at one time or another, has said that it was well worth it and taught them a lot about family responsibility.  I think it will make your children better people and much more responsible.
 
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October 5, 2005, 8:19 pm PDT

10/05 Moms: Cut the Chaos

I married my ex husband 3 months after my 19th birthday.  He was extremely abusive and actually almost killed me one night. I left him several times but always came back.  I put up with it even after our daughter was born.  My biological father abandoned me as an infant and I didn't want my daughter to grow up without a father and he knew that and I think he took advantage of that.  So, I stayed with him.  One day when my daughter was about 3 months old, he drove drunk with her.  That was the moment that everything became clear.  She was the love of my life and the thought of him almost killing her tore me up inside.  At that moment, I left and never looked back.  To this day he has no relationship with her whatsoever (HIS choice).  I am now remarried to a man who would never dream of abusing me and he treats my two daughters like they are his own. 
 
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October 5, 2005, 8:36 pm PDT

OOPS! WRONG MESSAGE BOARD!!

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I married my ex husband 3 months after my 19th birthday.  He was extremely abusive and actually almost killed me one night. I left him several times but always came back.  I put up with it even after our daughter was born.  My biological father abandoned me as an infant and I didn't want my daughter to grow up without a father and he knew that and I think he took advantage of that.  So, I stayed with him.  One day when my daughter was about 3 months old, he drove drunk with her.  That was the moment that everything became clear.  She was the love of my life and the thought of him almost killing her tore me up inside.  At that moment, I left and never looked back.  To this day he has no relationship with her whatsoever (HIS choice).  I am now remarried to a man who would never dream of abusing me and he treats my two daughters like they are his own. 
 Meant to put this one on a different message board. 
 
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October 5, 2005, 8:38 pm PDT

10/05 Moms: Cut the Chaos

Quote From: reginol

I'm sure alot of you will probably not like what I have to say, but I'm going to say it anyway. I listen to all the whinning and complaining on todays show and I'm so tired of hearing about these women that don't work outside the home talking about how bad they have it. I work, go to school, my husband works and goes to school and we have a nine year old daughter that needs my time to. I don't have anytime for myself either and I only have one child. Well, get a clue, if your husband isn't helping on the first child, what makes you think he's going to help when you have 3 or four. Besides didn't you know this going into the marriage that he wasn't going to assist especially if you are a "stay at home mom"... That should be something that is discussed before you have kids. Also, women that have small kids I have some sympathy for, but those of you that have school age kids and you are home all day doing "housework", why does the house need to be cleaned everyday? If you keep up with it regularly, it shouldn't be that much. For the lady that her husband kept having a vasectomy and it didn't work, how bout changing doctor's or the woman having her tubes tied. I guess I may be too hard on some of you, but I'm really tired of hearing about all these mom's that don't work talk about how much they have to do. Stop having so many kids....
 I found your post very offensive.   Your insinuation that women who stay at home don't work as hard as those who work outside the home do, is VERY UNTRUE!!  Before I married my husband a year and a half ago, I was a single mother of two, ages 2 and 3 at the time, attending school full time and working full time while supporting my children on my own with NO support from ANYONE!  I can tell you without a doubt that being a stay at home mom is MUCH harder than what I did before I was married.  I don't spend my entire day cleaning the house.  If you have never been a stay at home mother, then you have no idea what goes on in the home and should not be judging anyone.  I do laundry for 5 people, cook, clean, drive, go grocery shopping, change poopy diapers, breast feed, AND home school my children.  Good parents who stay home teach their children and spend time with them...they aren't sitting on their @sses eating twinkies all day.  As far as "discussing" things with your husband before you get married....LOL!!!  Men (and women too for that matter) will tell you whatever you want to hear before you get married.  Things usually change when you get married, and even the most well intentioned man can get overwhelmed when reality sets in. 
 
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October 6, 2005, 11:47 am PDT

10/05 Moms: Cut the Chaos

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Dr. Phil,  I am a woman of color and a stay at home mom for the moment after having surgery.  I watched the show Moms: Cut The Chaos and thought it was very informative, but am a little disappointed that not one of the moms on the show was a woman of color.  Our lives as moms are just as chaotic as a white moms, if not more so, and we have the same sort of problems emotionally and physically as any white person.  As a person of color who watches your show ( and I'm sure there are a lot of us), it would be nice to see at least one person of color more often than not, and that should basically goe for all the shows on television. 
 I'm not a woman of color, but I would be interested in seeing your point of view also.  Perhaps no women of color call to be on the show?  Just a thought.  Maybe you could be on the show. :-)  You sound like you have a lot going on.
 

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