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It was full of that, but so is adult life. You can't exactly homeschool your job. You can work from home, or start your own business, but even then, you will be in contact with dolts.
Personally, I was a troublemaker and loved it. Got it out of my system early, and still got a college scholarship.
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. "
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Yes but now I'm in the position to avoid them, at a cost sure but at least it's possible. I'm also not locked up with them in a prison where I'm tortured with an endless but far too slow and often inaccurate flow of information that is only occasionally interrupted by a spine-thinker wanting to ask a question that makes QA look good.
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You don't need to go to a public school to encounter or learn how to deal with "dolts".
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harold aptroot wrote: So it wasn't insanely boring and filled with arrogant teachers who corrected you
when you were right and they were wrong, and loads of kids lacking anything
remotely resembling brains?
I feel your pain, mate. It was the same for me. I got lazy as hell just because of being over-underchallenged.
Regards.
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If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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harold aptroot wrote: loads of kids lacking anything remotely resembling brains?
Hey, if you want to discuss with him, keep it between you and him. There's no need to talk about *me* and my cronies. 
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Eventually I believe she will. And when she is old enough to make an educated decision on the matter then I will talk with her and decide what is best. We expect that near high school she will be wanting to be in private school.
However, we do make sure she is not socially "cut off". She has friends, she is around people often, etc. Before the nanny we had a daycare we met through some friends of ours. Their two kids were among the several at the daycare, so it was not like she sits around alone or anything.
We also have regular family get togethers, and let her invite friends over, etc. We have a friend of mine that comes and picks her up about once a month for the weekend with some other kids. These other kids she met before we moved, so it's like she gets to go hang with her old friends.
We are active in making sure she does not have a social stigma.
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I didn't think you were trolling, and it's a valid question. Besides, you can't expect that you would be the first to challenge that decision (if you were challenging it I mean).
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Responding to your edit- It's just nice to have an intelligent conversation on the internet.
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wizardzz wrote: I see them walking the white children like dogwalkers do
Do they put muzzles on the loud or snippy ones? Do they carry plastic bags to pick up their "business"?
Don't blame me. I voted for Chuck Norris.
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Wouldn't be surprised, but I do see harnesses and leashes
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I've seen those in the mall. They annoy me.... probably more than they should.
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 They make it so hard to kidnap these days...
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it does come in handy when you need to drag them both away though.....
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loctrice wrote: So I recently hired a house keeper / nanny.
I envy you! I wish I could afford to hire a housekeeper myself!
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We are pretty simple in our needs. We also have a good budget plan that we stay active with, because my wife is an accountant and I think like a programmer.
We've spent quite some time monitoring our spending and weeding out the inefficiencies. We found out where we waste money, and trimmed it out. We don't go out to eat often, instead we make sure we have nice things at home. We bake things for parties instead of buy them, we bring our snacks to work instead of buying them,etc.
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A cow-orker has a Kurdish wife. They shipped one of her relatives over to act as a Nanny/house keeper. He installed nanny cams behind book cases disguised as clocks and such and has a window open on his work computer so he can "make sure every think is all right".
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We didn't hire someone we don't know. My daughter will also tell if anything happens  (and she knows martial arts as well).
My daughter is not in any danger, and I'm very confident that she won't be. Even if she is, I'm also confident that she would tell the moment something happened.
The worst I have to worry about is making sure she doesn't get fast food, and if that is the most I have to worry about then I'm ok with it.
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loctrice wrote: My daughter will also tell if anything happens
Not to be too negative and nothing against you or your daughter but this statement has been made by many a parent before their child is abducted or molested.
Failure is not an option; it's the default selection.
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She saw something unfortunate before, and did tell. It didn't happen to her, and she did the right thing.
We do talk to her often as well. I am still confident in both the nanny we chose, and my daughter.
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kmg365 wrote: A cow-orker has a Kurdish wife.
Is that kid sister safe?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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loctrice wrote: run errands, watch my daughter and help her with school work
Sounds like being an adult and parent. Good thing you hired one.
Failure is not an option; it's the default selection.
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Not trying to be combative, just want to take everyone's opinions correctly. In order to do that I need to understand them correctly.
Are you saying that as a joke? Or do you mean that I am attempting to escape responsibility that I should shoulder instead?
Do you think this was a bad choice? If so, why?
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It doesn't matter what anyone, here or elsewhere, thinks or what their opinion is. It is your decision.
Failure is not an option; it's the default selection.
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I understand that point of view. I've already made my choice. However, it is beneficial to weigh the opinions of other people and/or peers.
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As a parent of 4 (and guardian of 1) you need to do what suits you best, not what others think you should do (mostly becuase the ones with the loudest opinions are usually wrong anyway).
And it's really no one else's business what you do (provided it's legal!  ) as long as you believe it to be of benefit to your family.
Please stop worrying about what other people think and think for yourself!
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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