tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289848139215177412.post2440363797628868992..comments2023-10-24T03:46:03.122-04:00Comments on Martha's World: "I've Heard about Her, the One Whose Child isn't in Parent's Day Out"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289848139215177412.post-14036344116949682802008-03-18T18:12:00.000-04:002008-03-18T18:12:00.000-04:00The problem with "MDO" is that the focus is on the...The problem with "MDO" is that the focus is on the mother and so is the curriculum or aka lack of brain building, developmental curriculum. I wish people could see early education as education instead of Mother's Day out and then we would not have as much mommy guilt about sending them there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289848139215177412.post-80019551159583443402008-03-06T16:33:00.000-05:002008-03-06T16:33:00.000-05:00I couldn't agree more. I grew up in tight-knit nei...I couldn't agree more. I grew up in tight-knit neighborhoods filled w/sahms. I think they would have laughed at the concept of a "playdate." Getting together is just what they did. <BR/><BR/>I am greatly hoping that things in our new town might be a little more like the old days... It was actually a factor in our decision to leave the big city... And we chose the "lesser" of all the homes we looked at because it was in a cul de sac with low fences (as opposed to tall privacy fences) and signs of little children everywhere... One can hope, anyway.Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17469945863419367830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2289848139215177412.post-55651175734881459372008-03-06T14:33:00.000-05:002008-03-06T14:33:00.000-05:00I wholeheartedly agree that MDO is about mom. But...I wholeheartedly agree that MDO is about mom. But I also think that being a stay-at-home-mom/housewife/whatever-the-wife-is-called has changed over time, and that MDO is a reasonable response. When I was a kid in the 70s, few of my neighbors' moms worked outside the home, and moms would gather -- by means of walking a few yards to a neighbor's house -- and have coffee or tea and play cards or mah jongg while the kids played with Barbies (or G.I. Joes) in the back yard. Now, neighborhoods just don't seem to be like that anymore, and moms more often socialize in places without back yards. And there's the whole thing about the diminishing middle class, too ... <BR/><BR/>Anyway, after the time change, and when we're well, y'all come over and play some mah jongg with us. Just not on a Monday or Wednesday, 'cause R's in MDO. :-)Susiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02492033070113165617noreply@blogger.com