Posted on 09/07/2014 1:47:32 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A team of researchers at North Carolina State University published a study challenging the idea that home-cooked meals are ultimately “better” for the family as a whole. […]
Their time spent accompanying parents shuttling children to checkups, grocery shopping, and, of course, preparing food, led the team to a set of real world conclusions at odds with stereotypical parenting wisdom. For all of the health benefits associated with food prepared at home, the task presented parents, particularly mothers, with a slew of economic and interpersonal stressors.
“One could say that home-cooked meals have become the hallmark of good mothering, stable families, and the ideal of the healthy, productive citizen,” their abstract reads. “Yet in reality, home-cooked meals rarely look this good. Leanne, for example, who held down a minimum-wage job while taking classes for an associate’s degree, often spent her valuable time preparing meals, only to be rewarded with family members’ complaints—or disinterest.” …
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Merle Haggard — Are The Good Times Really Over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFHJ41ktt3Q
“Are The Good Times Really Over”
I wish a buck was still silver
It was back when the country was strong
Back before Elvis
Before the Vietnam war came along
Before The Beatles and ‘Yesterday’
When a man could still work, still would
The best of the free life behind us now
And are the good times really over for good?
Are we rolling down hill
Like a snowball headed for Hell?
With no kind of chance
For the Flag or the Liberty Bell
Wish a Ford and a Chevy
Could still last ten years, like they should
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?
I wish Coke was still Cola
And a joint was a bad place to be
It was back before Nixon lied to us all on TV
Before microwave ovens
When a girl could still cook and still would
The best of the free life behind us now
Are the good times really over for good?
Are we rolling down hill
Like a snowball headed for Hell?
With no kind of chance
For the Flag or the Liberty Bell
Wish a Ford and a Chevy
Could still last ten years, like they should
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?
Stop rolling down hill
Like a snowball headed for Hell
Stand up for the Flag
And let’s all ring the Liberty Bell
Let’s make a Ford and a Chevy
Still last ten years like they should
The best of the free life is still yet to come
The good times ain’t over for good
i love to cook... i love to feed family and friends... recently i began cooking a weekly dinner at my parents’ home... it takes place on any given week day... not weekend... all are welcome... family and friends... i usually announce it on my Facebook account... so far i have had 14 at the least and 21 at the most show up... i do it for my daddy... he is almost 91, and he seems to do really well when he has visitors... since most visitors come on the weekend, i do the dinners on a weekday just to add excitement during the week... and most people seem happy to come right after work since they have to eat anyway...
What about yardwork and home repairs?
So, the answer is to pack up the family and head to a cheap restaurant. Fast food comes to mind. And, then comes the cost. Will the cost be passed on to the tax payer?
Women can do those too!
Being a mother and a wife is a full time job in itself. Attempting to go to school to get a 2 year degree while trying to be a mother and a wife is simply a distraction from the more important functions of being a mother and a wife.
Whatever happened to pride in being a mother and a wife? Pride in cooking? Pride in household economics? Pride in educating children?
Getting a degree and competing in the workplace is simply at odds with being a mother and wife.
Being a father and a husband has its own challenges also.
The way I see it, the husband and father buys the house, and the wife and mother makes it a home.
Father, husband, wife, mother - these are all good roles and jobs that have been proven with time. The cultural revolution has diminished their value and attempted to tell us the family structure doesn’t work. That’s false.
If you want to do something, do it well whether it be a mother or an engineer. Doing both is a disservice to the end consumers. The jack of all trades is a master of none.
love it.
invite me next time.
pride in cooking has become lost.
Those are the father’s responsibilities. I strongly believe that the father is the provider. The traditional family has a statistically higher quality of life and produces a better economy and more stable political environment than any other small grouping.
One mother, one father, no divorce, emphasis on education and hard work.
Just go eat at the nearby roach infested restaurant right?
I’m not reading it.... cause it’s ridiculous already.
Alma, please report to the nearest govt re-education center on the double. We have already prepared a spot for you.
Signed,
BHO
Agree wholeheartedly. The breakdown of the traditional family unit is, IMHO, the biggest reason for todays dysfunctional children who are more likely to get into trouble. I love the sharing of responsibilities in the home and I always remember to praise my better half for all the hard work she does.
YES! Today, as happens almost every week, our 3 family units will gather at our house for Sunday dinner after we have all attended church. On Saturdays, I spend lots of time cooking the old fashioned way (from scratch) for our family. Our menus tend to be traditional and, by the time everything is over, we are usually looking at late afternoon. It takes that long for a recap of the week, including the children describing what is on their minds. Our dessert for today will be banana pudding and Texas sheet cake. Wish I could invite all here to eat with us..It is always a labor of love and joy on my part, as the Mom and Grandmother to be able to do this. The traditional family is far too precious to allow it to go by the wayside because of leftist ideology and I am happy to see this outpouring against a feminist-leftist view of a woman's work in the home. REAL work can be hard, but, very satisfying if it is being done from the heart.
I guess no one should cook them, since it is considered a burden.
You know fairly well that is not his point. His point is that every house divides the responsibilities between the family members who are most capable. Often the mother and wife cook. Often the husband and father repair and do yard work. This is not to assume that women cannot do yard work or house repairs. It is not to say a man cannot cook or clean. That is the absurdity of this article, it pretends that there is nothing else that needs to be done in the house, and the woman of the house is unnecessarily burden more than men with this ONE task out of many in any given house.
Yeah the stress of microwaving a baked potato or cooking a hamburger really is so self-defeating. Thank you, University of North Carolina.
I solved that ‘take the kids to the grocery store’ as a divorced mom. My mom could not drive, dad hated taking her on her Sat. outing. So in exchange I took her, we shopped, and dad kept the 2 boys. Great exchange. Made both of us happy.
I didn’t have to try to coral unruly children, they got to play on the 5 acre farm, and mom got what she wanted no matter if it meant 4-6 stores.
Mom learned to cook from grandma, I learned by watching both. I love to cook. Even the grocery shopping, love to use those coupons to reduce my bill, and the gas points. Kroger’s is great and the APP is neat. A free Friday item is good too. They let you know when gift cards go to 4 times the points.
I did my Christmas shopping in 10 mins. We have 7 grands ranging from 30 to 13; 5 great grands from 12- under 6 months. So gift cards are perfect. Bought 12 Target, 1 Bass Pro and 1 Amazon. Christmas shopping was done. At 4 times the gas points, that gave us $1 of a gal of gas, up to 35 gals. Usually a fill is $22-24 $$ off. Hubby has the trick figured out. He fills my small car from a 5 gal gas can, then takes it and his car to Kroger’s and fills both.
We have had a $1 of a gal of gas every month for a year. For 1 to 2 tank fills.
I just got twin hearing aids, my car is not blue tooth able.
And I just solved the blue tooth issue for my no blue tooth Corolla with a Jabra Tour $53 and change from Amazon. Pairs 2 devices. It does have a speech recognition learning curve. Some how it does not like Tennessee/Yankee.
> What about yardwork and home repairs?
Can I do a study that it’s bad for your mental health to be a white conservative male who works for a living and pays taxes so scumbuckets like that author can receive freebies?
My dad did plenty of cooking as well. In fact he’s still a better cook than my mother.
Latina, you sound like a very loving and giving person! How very kind of you - your father is blessed, as are friends and family!
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