What’s a chook? A kind of chicken?
Contrary to the feminazi propaganda, it is easier to keep a house than it is to work in business. And if you’ve got your kids trained properly it is MUCH easier.
Why ditch a model that has succeeded for 5,000 years?
Modern feminists are crazy.
“There are a confluence of forces - the global financial crisis, environmental concerns and a new cocooning - which are pulling together to form the new homemaker.”
Well, this actually has been coming for quite some time, but I hope it gains a foothold and women start realizing how rewarding the Domestic Arts can be and how good it is for your kids to have a Mom at home and how wonderful it is for your family’s budget bottom line. :)
Mom Ping!
My 12 year old daughter is very domestic. It’s funny because in school she is the one with the best grades. She’s extremely bright. However, I see her doing something like teaching so that she can also be at home with her kids.
She loves to cook/sew/knit. She also says she wants to write a novel.
She’s smart enough to go to med school, be a lawyer, be an engineer, but that is not her desire.
I love being a stay at home mom and housewife! I do everything, including yard work (ok the Marine helps me there) - but currently he supports us, so I support him. :^)
Great if you can find a man who can support your staying home. Money-wise that is.
If not, you both decide you’ll be a stay-at-home mom, have the first baby and then...oops, we don’t have enough money you need to get a job. Happened to a friend of mine. Now she has double jobs. Home and teaching. And she’s worn out all of the time.
I don’t think we will see majority of women return to be “1950s wives.” Yes, there will be many of them who choose to have that life-style (men as breadwinners, wives stay at home to raise children), but there are also many other women who would choose to work outside the house AND at the same time to take care the domestic front with the help of their husbands. I believe what’s happening is the return of 1950s housewife for some, AND practicing a new way of organizing family for others: there will be more guys feel comfortable working at ‘domestic’ work. Palin’s family is an example of the latter.
Last year my 15 yr old niece asked me to teach her to sew..
I gave her basic instruction over a couple of weeks and a very good basic sewing book.
She took off and ran with it.
She has started cooking on her own initiative.
I hope the stay at home thing does not catch on.
Sorry, but I see too many women staying home and not using the talents that they were given. Marriage should be a partnership; women need to pitch in and help with the family finances (and men need to help with housework).
I recently went to a funeral for a 55-year-old woman with a college degree. She stayed at home after marriage. While she had been healthy up until the day she died, they really didn’t have much to talk about her life and I think it was a bit of a waste.
What about Donna Reed?
She can add it to her green belt in TaeKwonDo.
Lord God, how I wish I could go back to being a traditional housewife. I was such a determined career woman before my marriage, but the years as a stay-at-home mom were the happiest, most rewarding, most creative of my life. Or my husband’s. Or my kids’.
I think the term “1950s housewife” is misleading. Housewives were common from ancient times until the late 70s.
I am surprised that no one pointed out the obvious reason for the new generation wanting to stay home. They are the ones who grew up without mom and dad at home. They know it stinks to come home to an empty house, and they are preventing their children from experiencing it.
Working moms were a failed experiement, and I hope the trend continues. The last couple of generations that moms were focused on working outside the home, the children have become unruly, spoiled, and promiscuous. I think the kids that grew up this way, long for the days of Leave it to beaver a lot more than those who were lucky enough to be raised in it.
Thank God, maybe there IS hope!
