Posted on 01/01/2009 1:05:40 PM PST by CE2949BB
She sews, cooks, knits, gardens and raises chooks. The housewife is back – with younger women embracing traditional domestic crafts in droves, new figures show.
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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.
BUT the child tax tax credit has to be adjusted for inflation so when its where it should be , around $25k, every married woman can opt to stay home.
The current system does not work. Kids become screaming monsters in day care mills I have seen this in my daughter and neice.
Not if you don’t like housework.
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. :)
You hire someone to do the housework. If you can’t afford that? Barter. Maybe you love to cook. Trade off two great dinners for 2 hours of cleaning windows, etc.
I’ll disagree with that. I think working is much easier than taking care of kids/house/cooking.
I didn’t have to multitask at all when I worked, and my day was over usually by 6. Most of my weekends were free. I got lots of vacation days.
Being a mom never stops. There is always something to do.
I never worked and had kids, so I think that would be near impossible but I know lots of women who do that.
Like laundry. Ugh.
Budget wise, staying at home has never been good for my family. I have a degree in Computer Science, and financially it would have always been better for me to work full-time.
I think it probably depends on how much money you make. I know if I was working I’d be making 6 figures with stock options.
However, we don’t regret that I quit working. My husband and I have always thought it was better for the kids/family to have 1 parent at home. It wasn’t a financial decision.
Mom Ping!
My husband and I have alternated over the years. When the kids were younger, he worked and I worked at home and from home. Now that the boys are grown, Husband has his own business and I went back into the workforce for the health insurance. In another year or so, I should be home again, working at and from home as his business grows large enough to support us.
My SIL has a great 6-figure career; her husband has been home with the kids since they were born. They’re wonderful kids and they are one happy family.
I’m retired Army. I had my career first and then and started a family at age 35. The Army was a LOT easier, LOL!
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. :^)
What chickens are called in Oz
I worked for 10 years before I had kids. I’ll eventually go back to work, but not into my original field (computer software).
My SIL did the same thing. She worked while my brother stayed home. He battled a losing war with cancer their entire marriage. He was able to handle his doctor’s appointments and do things with the kids. His youngest son was 19 when he passed away. At his funeral, the scout troop that he was scout master for presented the colors, and then every member of the softball team that he coached came up and said a few things about my brother. I think my brother made significant contributions even though he was a stay at home parent.
I grew up in the 1950s. I don’t EVER remember my Mom doing hosework dressed to the nines like the TV sit com moms or the moms shown in ads.
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