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Like who? Most people in DC, like us, have no family here. I would not trust a complete stranger to watch my kids for several days. [/quote]

It’s called a nanny.

Do you just go everywhere together? Like a gypsy tribe?

What a circus.[/quote]

They walk 5 abreast everywhere they go clogging aisles in grocery stores, Costco, sidewalks, etc. it would never occur to them to have one parent shop and the other stay home. It’s a big event.[/quote]

You don't want them to bring the kids in public but you will also be the first to complain if they never learn how to behave in public.[/quote]

Well you won’t teach them because you clog the aisles and are oblivious to everyone around you.[/quote]

[b]So do boomers. [/b] Maybe they should stay home with a babysitter too.[/quote]

Reported for ageism.  What if the poster had substituted the word blacks?   An ism is an ism. [/quote]

Great.  Maybe you should report this whole thread for child-ism. It’s exactly the same thing [/quote]

Not really. Kids grow out of being kids. The elderly don’t grow out of being elderly—they just become more and more elderly. Until they die.[/quote]

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