I am in no way defending this woman, but I will say that technically she only blew 20K from that budget. The other 70K did go to her first 3 years of school. She just finds herself about to begin her senior year with being 20K short on her tuition. It’s still inexcusable, but no where near as bad as 90K.
If you read some of the research, it’s easy to understand why the medical community is skeptical of it. When compared to a placebo, couples only had sex 0.5 to 1 more times a month. Considering a higher than normal chance of side affects, it doesn’t feel right to put your health at risk for maybe one more sexual act a month than what you could get from ingesting a sugar pill. People have tried to turn this into a woman’s issue. It’s not. It’s a health issue.
You should never feel that you have to lose it during a specific “window of acceptable age.” There really isn’t one. It should be when you feel comfortable enough for it. I was also surrounded by the nuns, Bibles, and the guilt growing up and it really messed with my head. I started dating a guy freshman year who was at first patient with me, but by junior year the poor boy had been denied long enough. Even though I lost it to the man I loved, it still was a horrible experience for me because I still mentally wasn’t ready. Over the next two years, at random times during sex I would break into tears and push him off of me. But the boy was patient and helped me get through my mental blocks. Now we have a very happy and healthy sex life.
I know this sounded depressing, but I’m just trying to emphasize two things: only have sex when you are ready for it or else you won’t enjoy it and have a partner who will be patient with you until you are ready.
Unless you have completed one of these unnamed majors, worked hard for many decades, and proven that was the right decision in regards to a career and overall livelihood, then you should not be giving your opinions on this matter. People should choose a career that will make them happy and give them pride and self worth, but they also need one that will pay for food and rent. You will have to work hard in any industry after graduation. And the reason after receiving one of these majors you will ‘start at the bottom and fight to the top’ is because they are so useless that they keep you at the bottom instead of advancing you into a career, i.e. the point of college. You’d be better in asking your parents to invest all the money they were going to spend on a not-so-useful education to invest in you. That way four years later you had received funding, self educated yourself through personal research and experience, and would be farther along in career and life than instead of still being ‘at the bottom’. If you want to be a scientist, doctor, lawyer, engineer, educator, CPA, business consultant, exc, you need to go to college. While you did not specifically give an example of a non-monetary major or career, I assume you don’t need a college degree to achieve it.
My favorite was on the day I finished graduate school. I told a guy taking my order that I had just graduated, and he said that I looked young for graduating high school.
Can I just note that for the picture of this article you chose a character that LOATHED being a stay at home mom to the point it nearly ruined her marriage multiple times?
You should actually read the articles that you write about. The article did not say that the app has already found all these dogs and cats homes. They were referencing an ASPCA campaign from earlier this year. The app doesn’t even do cats, which I was unhappy to discover after downloading it because you falsely said it did.
Umm, first off “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” should always be considered one of the Disney greats, and except for Peter Pan you forgot about the early classics, including “A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes” and “When You Wish Upon a Star”. Also, you didn’t list any villain songs. Are you really going to tell me that “Be Prepared” and “Poor Unfortunate Souls” don’t belong?
My biggest issue with your argument is not that you insulted working mothers, but that you make it sound like there is no chance that you will not be a stay at home mom. You cannot predict the future. You should always pray for the best but prepare for the worst. In your situation, that would be to pray that you meet a man that can financially support a good lifestyle for your family and is fine with you staying home, but prepare for that man not to come around, for him to not make enough money, or that some accident happens that prevents him from continuing to work.
Your parents paid for you to go to college so you can gain an education that will help you support yourself. I don’t think they indented their hard earned money to go towards “drinking with my friends knowing I had a test the next morning”. That’s just stupid and disrespectful towards all they have done for you. You should be able to stand on your own two feet after college by getting a job and making money. Marriage and kids will probably not happen the day after you graduate, and you better not be asking Mom and Dad for money. You are an adult with a college degree. Act like it.
Whether you marry your man a few months, years, or decades after you graduate, you should be supporting yourself and gaining experience with a job until then. Once you are married, then you will need to look at your finances. Is he making enough money to support you both? That’s after taxes, 10% saved away for retirement, and an emergency fund fully funded. If not, then you should still be at work. Then comes the kids. Can he support your current lifestyle with the added financial responsibility, or are you guys willing to make financial sacrifices? If not, then you will still have to work. Now say he gets injured in a car accident and can no longer support the family. Did you guys save enough to support this extra burden? Did you gain enough education and experience that you can re-enter the workforce with a comparable salary so you can support your family if you had become a stay at home mom earlier? These are all questions you must answer before you consider becoming a stay at home mom.
My mother worked for five years until she met my father, and only became a stay at home mom after my younger sister was born, my father received a considerable raise, and they were very financially secure. I am very grateful of the fact that she stayed home with us, and I respect her decision. She also was the room mom every year and became the president of my school’s PTA. Once we were old enough to stay at the house by ourselves though, she then went back to work and has been doing so ever since. Why? Her mother became sick and is working to help support her very expensive care. She didn’t want to take it out of the family budget.
I know this was long, but I just want to make you see that you cannot just make a blanket statement like that. It depends on many different conditions. If you do become a stay at home mom, that is your decision and you should be respected for it. Just don’t say you will without considering all the factors and preparing yourself to the idea that it may not happen.
Why do you have to take such a negative approach? He may actually like you. And one late night chatting in the common area you take a chance and grab him and kiss him. That’s what I did to the guy who lived on my hall five years ago. We’re getting married next year.
I agree as well. When it comes to positions that rely on the brain, like the ones in STEM, then there really is no “better”. The issue comes in how children are raised. It is well known that the best way to prepare children for careers in STEM and architecture is to give them building toys like blocks or Legos. It greatly helps them to develop their spatial skills. Yet these kinds of toys are marketed towards boys, which gives them an advantage in classes later. And then as they grow older, girls have people telling them that boys become engineers, dissuading them from even considering the choice of becoming one. There are actually many countries where women dominate the STEM jobs, which just shows that the issue is environment and not gender. I liked the article Hot Piece, but that one note you mentioned just bugged me. I was a sorority girl who is now working on my Masters in Engineering. It’s bad enough that I have to try to convince my male peers that they aren’t “better” than me at engineering. Please don’t make me have to work to convince women as well
As a girl who attended Catholic school for 12 years then went on to receive an undergraduate and graduate degree, I feel I should say that this article is NOT the general opinion of the Catholic church. Not one girl at my school became engaged and was married after high school, and 100% of my graduating class went to college. My teachers were all college educated (most of them were female), and the few priests and nuns that were there all had graduate degrees, believing the closest way to God was through constant education and striving for knowledge in ALL fields. My favorite nun had a PhD in engineering, and was an incredible math teacher. In addition, in my junior year we had to complete a marriage project where we had to balance a budget on a fixed income, and we were told that BOTH the “husband” AND “wife” had to financially contribute.
Same happened with me! I fell in love with my future Little on the first day of recruitment while being her Pi Chi, and one of the happiest memories of my life was seeing her run out in my letters on Bid Day because I knew she was meant to be mine.
But with your theory, you are claiming it is ok to be 150 lbs if your IQ is higher than that. It’s never ok to be that weight. Or if you weigh 100 pounds it is fine for you to have average intelligence. Not as bad as an offence, but still pretty annoying. I prefer the way my GPA is right now: 20 points higher than my weight.
Ann Romney went to Harvard, raised five sons, and battled both multiple sclerosis and cancer. To claim that she has lived a lazy pampered life is both incorrect and disrespectful.
My bf made me wooden letters as a gift and I decorated them. They’re not painted, just mod podged. I printed out the paper, mod podged it around the letters, and covered it with mod podge. Really simple to do!
“Xi” does look like a capital I if you consider the middle bar to represent the connecting line in a capital I. ClassyAndFabulousXi, the sign is beautiful and so are you! TFJ!
I am in no way defending this woman, but I will say that technically she only blew 20K from that budget. The other 70K did go to her first 3 years of school. She just finds herself about to begin her senior year with being 20K short on her tuition. It’s still inexcusable, but no where near as bad as 90K.
If you read some of the research, it’s easy to understand why the medical community is skeptical of it. When compared to a placebo, couples only had sex 0.5 to 1 more times a month. Considering a higher than normal chance of side affects, it doesn’t feel right to put your health at risk for maybe one more sexual act a month than what you could get from ingesting a sugar pill. People have tried to turn this into a woman’s issue. It’s not. It’s a health issue.
You should never feel that you have to lose it during a specific “window of acceptable age.” There really isn’t one. It should be when you feel comfortable enough for it. I was also surrounded by the nuns, Bibles, and the guilt growing up and it really messed with my head. I started dating a guy freshman year who was at first patient with me, but by junior year the poor boy had been denied long enough. Even though I lost it to the man I loved, it still was a horrible experience for me because I still mentally wasn’t ready. Over the next two years, at random times during sex I would break into tears and push him off of me. But the boy was patient and helped me get through my mental blocks. Now we have a very happy and healthy sex life.
I know this sounded depressing, but I’m just trying to emphasize two things: only have sex when you are ready for it or else you won’t enjoy it and have a partner who will be patient with you until you are ready.
You eat black-eyed peas for luck and collard greens for money. Every southerner knows this.
Unless you have completed one of these unnamed majors, worked hard for many decades, and proven that was the right decision in regards to a career and overall livelihood, then you should not be giving your opinions on this matter. People should choose a career that will make them happy and give them pride and self worth, but they also need one that will pay for food and rent. You will have to work hard in any industry after graduation. And the reason after receiving one of these majors you will ‘start at the bottom and fight to the top’ is because they are so useless that they keep you at the bottom instead of advancing you into a career, i.e. the point of college. You’d be better in asking your parents to invest all the money they were going to spend on a not-so-useful education to invest in you. That way four years later you had received funding, self educated yourself through personal research and experience, and would be farther along in career and life than instead of still being ‘at the bottom’. If you want to be a scientist, doctor, lawyer, engineer, educator, CPA, business consultant, exc, you need to go to college. While you did not specifically give an example of a non-monetary major or career, I assume you don’t need a college degree to achieve it.
My favorite was on the day I finished graduate school. I told a guy taking my order that I had just graduated, and he said that I looked young for graduating high school.
Can I just note that for the picture of this article you chose a character that LOATHED being a stay at home mom to the point it nearly ruined her marriage multiple times?
You should actually read the articles that you write about. The article did not say that the app has already found all these dogs and cats homes. They were referencing an ASPCA campaign from earlier this year. The app doesn’t even do cats, which I was unhappy to discover after downloading it because you falsely said it did.
Umm, first off “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” should always be considered one of the Disney greats, and except for Peter Pan you forgot about the early classics, including “A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes” and “When You Wish Upon a Star”. Also, you didn’t list any villain songs. Are you really going to tell me that “Be Prepared” and “Poor Unfortunate Souls” don’t belong?
My biggest issue with your argument is not that you insulted working mothers, but that you make it sound like there is no chance that you will not be a stay at home mom. You cannot predict the future. You should always pray for the best but prepare for the worst. In your situation, that would be to pray that you meet a man that can financially support a good lifestyle for your family and is fine with you staying home, but prepare for that man not to come around, for him to not make enough money, or that some accident happens that prevents him from continuing to work.
Your parents paid for you to go to college so you can gain an education that will help you support yourself. I don’t think they indented their hard earned money to go towards “drinking with my friends knowing I had a test the next morning”. That’s just stupid and disrespectful towards all they have done for you. You should be able to stand on your own two feet after college by getting a job and making money. Marriage and kids will probably not happen the day after you graduate, and you better not be asking Mom and Dad for money. You are an adult with a college degree. Act like it.
Whether you marry your man a few months, years, or decades after you graduate, you should be supporting yourself and gaining experience with a job until then. Once you are married, then you will need to look at your finances. Is he making enough money to support you both? That’s after taxes, 10% saved away for retirement, and an emergency fund fully funded. If not, then you should still be at work. Then comes the kids. Can he support your current lifestyle with the added financial responsibility, or are you guys willing to make financial sacrifices? If not, then you will still have to work. Now say he gets injured in a car accident and can no longer support the family. Did you guys save enough to support this extra burden? Did you gain enough education and experience that you can re-enter the workforce with a comparable salary so you can support your family if you had become a stay at home mom earlier? These are all questions you must answer before you consider becoming a stay at home mom.
My mother worked for five years until she met my father, and only became a stay at home mom after my younger sister was born, my father received a considerable raise, and they were very financially secure. I am very grateful of the fact that she stayed home with us, and I respect her decision. She also was the room mom every year and became the president of my school’s PTA. Once we were old enough to stay at the house by ourselves though, she then went back to work and has been doing so ever since. Why? Her mother became sick and is working to help support her very expensive care. She didn’t want to take it out of the family budget.
I know this was long, but I just want to make you see that you cannot just make a blanket statement like that. It depends on many different conditions. If you do become a stay at home mom, that is your decision and you should be respected for it. Just don’t say you will without considering all the factors and preparing yourself to the idea that it may not happen.
Why do you have to take such a negative approach? He may actually like you. And one late night chatting in the common area you take a chance and grab him and kiss him. That’s what I did to the guy who lived on my hall five years ago. We’re getting married next year.
So… I want all of them.
I agree as well. When it comes to positions that rely on the brain, like the ones in STEM, then there really is no “better”. The issue comes in how children are raised. It is well known that the best way to prepare children for careers in STEM and architecture is to give them building toys like blocks or Legos. It greatly helps them to develop their spatial skills. Yet these kinds of toys are marketed towards boys, which gives them an advantage in classes later. And then as they grow older, girls have people telling them that boys become engineers, dissuading them from even considering the choice of becoming one. There are actually many countries where women dominate the STEM jobs, which just shows that the issue is environment and not gender. I liked the article Hot Piece, but that one note you mentioned just bugged me. I was a sorority girl who is now working on my Masters in Engineering. It’s bad enough that I have to try to convince my male peers that they aren’t “better” than me at engineering. Please don’t make me have to work to convince women as well
As a girl who attended Catholic school for 12 years then went on to receive an undergraduate and graduate degree, I feel I should say that this article is NOT the general opinion of the Catholic church. Not one girl at my school became engaged and was married after high school, and 100% of my graduating class went to college. My teachers were all college educated (most of them were female), and the few priests and nuns that were there all had graduate degrees, believing the closest way to God was through constant education and striving for knowledge in ALL fields. My favorite nun had a PhD in engineering, and was an incredible math teacher. In addition, in my junior year we had to complete a marriage project where we had to balance a budget on a fixed income, and we were told that BOTH the “husband” AND “wife” had to financially contribute.
Same happened with me! I fell in love with my future Little on the first day of recruitment while being her Pi Chi, and one of the happiest memories of my life was seeing her run out in my letters on Bid Day because I knew she was meant to be mine.
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But with your theory, you are claiming it is ok to be 150 lbs if your IQ is higher than that. It’s never ok to be that weight. Or if you weigh 100 pounds it is fine for you to have average intelligence. Not as bad as an offence, but still pretty annoying. I prefer the way my GPA is right now: 20 points higher than my weight.
Ann Romney went to Harvard, raised five sons, and battled both multiple sclerosis and cancer. To claim that she has lived a lazy pampered life is both incorrect and disrespectful.
My bf made me wooden letters as a gift and I decorated them. They’re not painted, just mod podged. I printed out the paper, mod podged it around the letters, and covered it with mod podge. Really simple to do!
“Xi” does look like a capital I if you consider the middle bar to represent the connecting line in a capital I. ClassyAndFabulousXi, the sign is beautiful and so are you! TFJ!