Pure Parents

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: I look forward to hearing from other professional women, SAHM or working, or : other graduate students, or other 30 something moms.  Or any other moms who : are just interested in a social group with a little more intimacy then the : usenet offers.  There really is no criteria to join.  And I, especially, : would be interested in hearing from international moms.  Multicultural : perspective will be really helpful! Missed the Mom and SAH parts; Other than that, got the WOH, Grad Student, parent of a 3 year old, and international/multicultural Spiros (dad to Sophia, 3 1/2, eternal grad student, corporate peon) — Spiros Triantafyllopoulos         http://expert.cc.purdue.edu/~strianta/

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Hi! We are three women who used to work full time and now strive to be mostly SAHMs (Stay at home Moms) although we also work part time and/or go to graduate school and/or aspire to go to graduate school.  All three of us consider parenting our top priority and have husbands who also consider parenting a top priority. We are interested in forming a group of "formerly professional SAHM" or something like that… It would be a leaderless group, open format, in which we, the member, would get to know one another and one another’s children and be able to ask/answer questions and concerns.  The size of the group would be open to discussion among the members. I have found that beonging to email groups on the internet is tremendously useful.  It helps me not have to wade through tremendously tedious debates about circumcision and breastfeeding for the umteenth time.  (Not that the decision to circumcize or not is not important, and not that breastfeeding isn’t important too, it’s just that each time I log into one of the parenting groups after having been away for a couple of weeks there are a few new people having the same old fight) An email group lets us get to know one another on a more intimate level. We will be able to share support and information with other women or men in a similar situation. If you have any interest in joining such an email group, please email me. As I said, this will be a leaderless group, but until we have members, I will be happy to take on the responsibility of collecting the names and email addresses of those who are interested and then I will forward these to all members. I look forward to hearing from other professional women, SAHM or working, or other graduate students, or other 30 something moms.  Or any other moms who are just interested in a social group with a little more intimacy then the usenet offers.  There really is no criteria to join.  And I, especially, would be interested in hearing from international moms.  Multicultural perspective will be really helpful! Please email me directly if you are interested. Oh, the ages of our children range from not yet born to 3, and we have from 1-2 children each.   Thanks for your interest.  I’ll be back in touch with you as soon as I hear from you! Jeanne

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