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re: How many kids did you put through daycare and private school?
Posted on 2/2/23 at 2:32 pm to CorkRockingham
Posted on 2/2/23 at 2:32 pm to CorkRockingham
3 to Catholic School
All 3 full academic scholarships, honors college & one salutatorian, the other 3rd. We are truly blessed at how our kids have turned out so far. I’m so glad they aren’t like I was.
All 3 full academic scholarships, honors college & one salutatorian, the other 3rd. We are truly blessed at how our kids have turned out so far. I’m so glad they aren’t like I was.
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Posted on 2/2/23 at 2:38 pm to CorkRockingham
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We practice NFP, Marquette method currently, but I was just wondering if anyone else has been through this and if they had any perspective or guidance.
lol us too
6 kids
I wouldn’t trade any of it.
Posted on 2/2/23 at 2:44 pm to CorkRockingham
One Son - Daycare and then PK through 8th Grade Catholic School in Louisiana
One Daughter - daycare and then PK through 7th Grade Catholic School in Louisiana
We moved to Katy TX, got a house 3/4 of a mile from the Public HS and my kids walked/rode their bikes to HS until they could drive.
For our kids education and opportunity wise it is the best thing we ever did. They both just graduated from Texas with Honors.
One Daughter - daycare and then PK through 7th Grade Catholic School in Louisiana
We moved to Katy TX, got a house 3/4 of a mile from the Public HS and my kids walked/rode their bikes to HS until they could drive.
For our kids education and opportunity wise it is the best thing we ever did. They both just graduated from Texas with Honors.
Posted on 2/2/23 at 2:53 pm to CorkRockingham
2 went in daycare and straight into Pre-K and regular school. Our last did daycare for a few months before my wife stopped working. All 3 currently in catholic school.
I don't know what kind of guidance or perspective I can offer to someone who is doing it this way for probably similar reasons as us, except to say make it work if it's important to you. Catholic education is important enough to us that we do it even with good public options. If we lost our footing financially, it would be one of the last things we changed.
This is the way. Be responsible and work hard along this goal and you'll be happy with how it shakes out.
I don't know what kind of guidance or perspective I can offer to someone who is doing it this way for probably similar reasons as us, except to say make it work if it's important to you. Catholic education is important enough to us that we do it even with good public options. If we lost our footing financially, it would be one of the last things we changed.
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I guess my perfect dream would be to make a ton of money and have as many kids as God provides
This is the way. Be responsible and work hard along this goal and you'll be happy with how it shakes out.
Posted on 2/2/23 at 3:32 pm to CorkRockingham
2 through daycare at 1000 a month for years. No private school. Kids either excel or they don't. The school won't matter. My kids are book smart so I don't give a shite. As long as they don't end up drug addicted I'll have done my part.
Posted on 2/2/23 at 3:36 pm to Earnest_P
Did you have to move out the city and go the public school route? Or go the magnet/gifted program route?
Posted on 2/2/23 at 3:37 pm to CorkRockingham
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Posted on 2/2/23 at 3:41 pm to CorkRockingham
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In our minds it’s very important to send our kids to catholic schools as I want them to have that religious foundation at home and at school. I also want them to be in a good school and to be surrounded by, on average, higher achieving peers.
older two went public Magnet program.... great academic education but turned them into atheist liberals....
we registered my son for a Christian school for kindergarten in the fall
Posted on 2/2/23 at 4:11 pm to tigeraddict
Yes that is a fear. I know not everyone ends being the company you keep but it does influence you.
Posted on 2/2/23 at 4:21 pm to CorkRockingham
3 kids currently in daycare. Over $400 per week. Oldest starts kindergarten in August so that’ll save a couple dollars.
This post was edited on 2/2/23 at 4:22 pm
Posted on 2/2/23 at 4:40 pm to CorkRockingham
We have one and will likely only have two, if we are so blessed.
We believe that a parent should always be home with the kid until they at least reach the age where we have established a solid foundation of our moral values and methods of communication, know why we believe what we do and be able to articulate that, which will probably be around the age of 12-13.
Only then will they be allowed to choose whether or not they want to continue home schooling with Mom or go to public or private school.
My wife is an educational consultant and good early childhood care is so rare that it wouldn’t be inaccurate to say it doesn’t exist. And If you do find it, you’ll be paying a fortune for it.
We will be living on the streets before we ever let someone else raise our kid. Why would you even have kids if you’re just going to give them to someone else to raise? Makes no sense to me.
It’s crazy that people would allow a stranger to take their kid and raise them every day, but wouldn’t allow that same stranger to drive their car.
We need to rethink our materialist values and culture. It’s why society is in the current state of dysfunction.
We believe that a parent should always be home with the kid until they at least reach the age where we have established a solid foundation of our moral values and methods of communication, know why we believe what we do and be able to articulate that, which will probably be around the age of 12-13.
Only then will they be allowed to choose whether or not they want to continue home schooling with Mom or go to public or private school.
My wife is an educational consultant and good early childhood care is so rare that it wouldn’t be inaccurate to say it doesn’t exist. And If you do find it, you’ll be paying a fortune for it.
We will be living on the streets before we ever let someone else raise our kid. Why would you even have kids if you’re just going to give them to someone else to raise? Makes no sense to me.
It’s crazy that people would allow a stranger to take their kid and raise them every day, but wouldn’t allow that same stranger to drive their car.
We need to rethink our materialist values and culture. It’s why society is in the current state of dysfunction.
Posted on 2/2/23 at 4:50 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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Being able to frick with little worry of producing an unexpected child has greatly improved my quality of life.
Yeah, but not the woman taking it.
Posted on 2/2/23 at 5:02 pm to CorkRockingham
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Did you have to move out the city and go the public school route? Or go the magnet/gifted program route?
Small town. Homeschool early years (certified teacher wife), private after that.
We don’t keep up with the Joneses, but we get by.
Posted on 2/2/23 at 5:05 pm to CorkRockingham
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In our minds it’s very important to send our kids to catholic schools as I want them to have that religious foundation at home and at school. I also want them to be in a good school and to be surrounded by, on average, higher achieving peers.
I still send my kids to Catholic schools, but their peers there are hit and miss, from a standpoint of morals. The local Catholic high school has a bad reputation for substance abuse, and in general the school is more about status and staying away from the poor half of town than it is about raising good people.
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We practice NFP, Marquette method currently, but I was just wondering if anyone else has been through this and if they had any perspective or guidance.
My guidance is to get ready for more kids, if you and your wife are truly committed to NFP. My advice is to embrace what God gives you to do. It will be difficult at times, but what isn’t?
Discover what you are, and then give it away. To your wife, to your kids, to your community, to God.
This post was edited on 2/2/23 at 5:09 pm
Posted on 2/2/23 at 5:22 pm to saintsfan1977
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Kids either excel or they don't. The school won't matter.
This
I went to catholic school my entire life and the people I graduated with were the same as my public school friends. Some really excelled and some became losers in life. The school didn't matter. More of the upbringing and the actual kids. Some are just smarter than others no matter the school you attended.
Its one thing if you want to send your kid to a catholic school for the religious purpose but if you don't live in EBRP and send your kid to a catholic school because its "better" academically you're wasting your money in my opinion. Both my kids are in public school now and doing very good.
Posted on 2/2/23 at 5:23 pm to CorkRockingham
2 in daycare and 1 in private school PK-8th. At one point at least. Neither in either one anymore
This post was edited on 2/2/23 at 6:45 pm
Posted on 2/2/23 at 5:23 pm to saintsfan1977
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Kids either excel or they don't. The school won't matter.
Posted on 2/2/23 at 5:34 pm to CorkRockingham
Zero. I can’t afford kids.
Posted on 2/2/23 at 5:38 pm to danilo
Private school in KC. 4th grader about 23k a yr
Posted on 2/2/23 at 5:44 pm to CorkRockingham
2 and it easily cost 250-300k minimum
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