Posted on 02/24/2006 3:41:10 PM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative
There are very few people I admire more than mothers and their husbands who can let the mother be a stay at home Mom. And for the stay-at-home Mom who raises her children to be productive Americans it's the greatest job one can perform. I did work with Moms who left their babies with "care takers" and what a mess for the "care takers" and the Moms. Constant panic calls to the Moms who had to be hunted down, called out of meetings and trying to explain that they had to call home immediately because I could not understand what the non-English person was trying to say. Quite a mess and I felt terribly sorry for the babies involved.
My wife watched this 'woman' live on GMA, and I am STILL hearing all about how she upset my wife. My wife considers her to be arrogant, self-absorbed and absolutely clueless when it comes to the question of why women are choosing to stay at home.
"I place my children's development first, and I don't think she does" - Mrs JRios.
Sure, we could probably use the extra $$ she used to bring in before she left the workforce and became a stay-at-home mom, but the real reward for us comes in the knowledge that it's us raising our children, not some "uninterested" drone, teaching them things that go against our values. That's worth a lot more than an additional paycheck.
Tired, but well. What we expect at this point. I'll copy that graphic and send it to some friends!
And another thing, why is it that it's always the feminists with a serious case of the fuglies that are the ones who speak to the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace - or in their case, anywhere else?
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You are. My mom was a "stay at home mom", raised five boys (spanning 18 years difference from youngest to oldest), was the family taxi driver, the family rock, probably baked 10,000 cookies for cub/boy scout meetings (and was den mother for all of us), washed 1 million loads of football/baseball/basketball uniforms, and endured 20 years of military life (e.g. moving between continents every 1-3 years and etc). And through it all she had a fully cooked meal on the table every night, taught us manners (yes/no sir), made sure we attended church/bible school on Sundays, and always made sure we knew we were loved --- now don't get me wrong mom can "wack" pretty good as well.
She is a HERO in our book and will always be.
We always joke with her that because what she endured with us she automatically has "go to heaven directly" membership.
Feminism was supposed to be about giving women choices. Being a full-time homemaker is a legitimate choice.
The world is better off because you did what you did.
All I have to say is thanks. Thanks a lot you old bitter womyn! Thanks to you, I thought I was supposed to do it all, but now. Now after 3 kids, and going back to work, and trying to be mom at home and manager at work, and turning one off and the other on, back and forth, back and forth, and feeling like I was failing at both, we are working towards my staying home with them, getting out of the workplace, because in my heart, I know what is right.
Maybe that's the difference.
I guess you're it. When you come back.
Incredibly evil viewpoint.
What about "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world"?
Heh heh heh.
Motherhood IS an elite job.
Just 'cuz these ummm, "cultural elites adversaries" don't think so, doesn't make them right.
And, oh, BTW, since cultural attitudes are usually passed down at home?
All of the conservatives kept having kids while the liberals delayed, prevented, or aborted theirs. Cultural Darwin award writ large.
...but not as large as writ in Europe...
Cheers!
ACK....that would be the one....
LOL
I agree. The creature who is so offended that moms stay home with their children are an affront to women everywhere, IS an affront to women everywhere. I'd offer a personal addendum here, but I don't want to take the thread even slightly off-topic.
Ditto. Your wife and you are heroes in my book. :)
Home is where the heart is, it used to be said. Home is where the lives of Americans used to revolve around. That is where children were nurtured, raised, educated, where the elderly spent their last days, where the sick were made well. It was a refuge for all who needed one. And it is for that home that men have fought and died.
While men can build and defend nations, that can't give them the heart that brings meaning to a man's life, as the Homemaker can. It is my belief that it is the return of the Homemaker that will ultimately save our country.
Lets not concede to the feminists a single word. The least of which should be the word Homemaker.
This bears repeating. I hope you don't mind but I kinda' swiped it for a file I've been working on for over a year now called 'GREAT THOUGHTS'. I have no idea what I'm going to do with it, but everytime I find something inspirational, I cut and paste it into this file.
A lot of the 'pastes' are things that I have thought myself but someone else could write more succinctly, others are like yours, are truly a GREAT THOUGHT.
Thanks.
While I agree that it does take a great husband and father to make it possible, you're absolutely off-base in saying that it takes no courage to be a stay at home mother. You may live in a utopian world where it's accepted, but here in the real world, the feminazis hate women who "waste" their education staying at home with the kids.
Sounds like this old bat, halfway down the slippery side of sixty can't understand how her only partly prune-dried, stretch-marked sisters finally figured out they had better take their last chance to find out what a real woman feels like before they find themselves on the sled next to old Linda, herself, with nothing but a closet full of broken down shoes in the gully below.
Ain't free sex grand??!!
In the large corporation where I worked for years, the very worst bosses were women. They simply could not understand how to handle the power of their position and made it obvious that they were incapable of communciating effectively with the men who reported to them. They were at their worst when in crisis situations and during certain lunar cycles.
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