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  • November 1, 2010 2:08 am at 2:08 am #592855
    WiseWoman
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    I am a teacher in a school and it kills me everytime I see a parent come to pick up their child and they are on the phone. This child is craving for the attention of their parents for those first few minutes they see mommy or totty. Not to mention it holds up other is the carpool line. Also what happens, the kid runs into the street or something drops the kid wants to get it and mom is so busy on the phone she doesnt realize where one of the children went. I read all the time that parents need to give more of their attention to their children, but how can they when they are so busy BBMing or texting or talking? How many of those people that parents are busy with are really their “friends?” I see couples go out both on their phones and not paying attention to their spouses, why bother getting married if all you’re going to do is talk on the phone? Where is their communition between each other? This is just something that’s been bothering me for a while!

    November 1, 2010 7:12 pm at 7:12 pm #705929
    apushatayid
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    How many of those parents did you tell this to? I guess venting is therepeautic, but usually not productive.

    November 1, 2010 10:00 pm at 10:00 pm #705930
    WiseWoman
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    i couldnt really…but i have said it to a few to get off the phone by dismissal

    November 2, 2010 12:48 am at 12:48 am #705931
    mosherose
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    “I see couples go out both on their phones and not paying attention to their spouses, why bother getting married if all you’re going to do is talk on the phone? “

    Al tarbeh sichas im haisha. Its better that they talk to theire friends than engage in idol chatter with theyre wifes.

    November 2, 2010 12:54 am at 12:54 am #705932
    Smile E. Face
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    um can i just say that talking to your wife is very important?! al tarbeh sich im haisha means foolish chatter. marriage, in fact all relationships, are built on communication. u seem to b missing hte point-if nisht marriage, nisht piru u’rivu. wat do u say to taht? then again, it could b that im just a senior and spewing off the top of my head…:)

    November 2, 2010 1:10 am at 1:10 am #705933
    WIY
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    mosherose

    “Al tarbeh sichas im haisha. Its better that they talk to theire friends than engage in idol chatter with theyre wifes.”

    For once I agree with you, idol chatter is avodah zora and one should be prepared to give up his life and not do avodah zara.

    But talking to ones wife is a mitzvah.

    November 2, 2010 1:39 am at 1:39 am #705934
    WiseWoman
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    sometimes its more important to be with your spouse than with the friends

    November 2, 2010 2:02 am at 2:02 am #705935
    sms007
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    wisewomen, its true its so sad. maybe send home a letter about it to the whole class or something. about how dismissal is a time to spend time with your kids etc.

    November 2, 2010 12:22 pm at 12:22 pm #705936
    WiseWoman
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    sms007-i wish i could. ive told the principal and shes like “oh letters go home.” the problem is is that the outside teachers dont inforce it! they are too scared. this is in a bais yaakov school i work for. when i was working in a boys yeshiva they had no problem when i opened my mouth. i was best friends with the secuirty guard and he would say “YOU TELL THEM!” and thats exactly what i did. because sometimes they say “well its an important call etc etc.” the only one i ever heard as am important call was when a teacher i worked with said someone she knew was waiting for a call from her kids oncologist…now THAT is important unfortunetly. but just to chitchat with your friends?!?!?!

    November 2, 2010 2:39 pm at 2:39 pm #705937
    apushatayid
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    Its good to see Mosherose is back. I was starting to worry about him (her?).

    November 2, 2010 2:56 pm at 2:56 pm #705938
    its_me
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    i am not very worried about mosherose. i consider most people who cant spell (read: use spell check) a total non threat.

    November 2, 2010 3:39 pm at 3:39 pm #705939
    Nat
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    That teacher is 100% correct. The wives talk on the cellphone when walking with their children, instead of talking with their kids – and their husbands talk on their cellphones in shul, instead of talking to the RBS”O. This is SICK!

    By the way – the same stupid mothers talk on their phones even when pushing their baby carraiges in front of them – totally oblivious to the oncoming cars – as if they don’t care about those nebech children of theirs. Then why have them?

    November 3, 2010 1:49 am at 1:49 am #705940
    smiling
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    nat pls watch ur language! but 100% motthers shouldnt b talking on the phone when they pick up their kid. as far as talking on a phone while pushing a carriage i dont see the problem women r multitalented 🙂

    November 3, 2010 1:55 am at 1:55 am #705941
    WiseWoman
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    Nat-

    I agree with you! and it’s the same mothers who are shmoozing by the park not taking care of their kids or who take them for a walk and dont converse with their children. Even if a baby is a few months or even 2 years by you talking to them(even without a respond) they hear your voice and hear the soothingness in it and they feel that love and the fact that you care about them. These are the same moms who are going on vacation 30 times a year and leaving their kids with a babysitter(spanish, black, jewish whats the difference). And hey, ive been in that boat too, to be left as the caretaker. But you know what they come first not my phone and I was even nice enough to arrange to pick up the kids from school and take them different places….again, NOT on the phone!

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