Seska, We do ave FMLA--Family Medical Leave Act--which requies employers to let employees take 12 weeks UNPAID leave for family or medical reasons. Most employers here ue that or some use Short term disability insurance to give mothers a week or two of pay--AFTER the person exhausts ALL their paid vacation and/or sick leave. It's a crap system that means any family who can't afford any appreciable time without a paycheck to put wee babies in daycare immediately at considerable expense for the parents.
God bless the US of A. @@
Didn't they use that in an episode of House (although I think they changed it to gymnastics)?
They used it on an episode of "Mental", but it was a boy who'd had a botched circumcision that they raised as a girl.
JZ, is there no Montessori alternative that's even remotely affordable? (Presuming, of course, that you'd even be down with the Montessori style.) Here it was $3K for four months, which at least breaks down to something more reasonable.
Not JZ, but in Brooklyn the Montessouri schools charge about the same as everyone else. i.e., A Whole Lot, If Not More.
They used it on an episode of "Mental", but it was a boy who'd had a botched circumcision that they raised as a girl.
No, but I'm pretty sure they used that on House, since I've never watched Mental, and I remember the condition.
There was definitely an intersex tween episode of House - the kid was being raised as a boy and forced to play basketball even though s/he wanted to take dance? Or something?
Didn't SVU do that one also?
Also, the model that had biologic boy-parts.
Yeah, Jessica, I liked the ep until they entwined Thirteen's (gasp) bisexuality with it...I think that's when I stopped watching regularly.
Legally, employers with more than 50 staff have to give unpaid leave for up to 12 weeks as "maternity leave." It's the unpaid part that's the pisser. Many, many workplaces have no paid maternity leave at all, or require you use short-term disability insurance to cover it. As recently as, I believe, 1978, you could legally be fired for getting pregnant, even if you worked in an office job where your "condition" in no way interfered with your ability to work.
In Georgia there is near-universal preK, thanks to state funding. In public schools it runs 7:45-2:30 and aftercare is $6 a day. (Pause to celebrate my last child's eligibility for this come next fall!) They also fund day care centers to have special preK classes that are free. In many ways GA is not progressive, but they have some interesting public education initiatives. (In-state public college/university tuition is free if you keep a B or better average, as another example.)
Hivemind help brought on by the discussions of the differences between male and female physiques and high heels. (Seriously, only Buffistas.)
I noticed yesterday that Abby's walk seems to be really getting awkward. Her feet go naturally outward at an angle (duck-footed) but then she pronates slightly when she walks. It's something she gets from Lewis since he walks exactly the same way. It was especially noticeable yesterday since she was breaking in a new pair of sneaker/flat with a slight wedge. I'm wondering if this is something I need to ask her doctor about, or if I just need to make her more conscious of trying to point her feet forward when she walks.
I can just imagine the trauma when she tries to learn how to walk in heels.
Thoughts? Am I just being a lunatic?
