Why Study Home Economics? (1955)
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Had barely eaten your dinner before they came home? So you didn’t even eat dinner as a family w/ your parents? That’s fantastic. Stop taking what I’m saying out of context. When did I say go on welfare? This is what I’m saying: If you can’t afford to have one parent stay home while the other works to support the family, DON’T HAVE KIDS because puting them in day care or some other child care situation is not what’s best for them or the parent for that matter. Good bye and good luck to you.
oh for crying out loud. why does anyone with kids work at all! sure we can all just live off the dole and bond the whole time.
It is just not practical. What do you mean parents gone? I had barely my dinner eaten before they came home. I think our situation worked extremely well. Would you prefer people did not work?
How sad you feel that money gave you a better life & not time spent bonding w/ your parents. Further it is sad that you mention that you were sad when your minder stopped watching you yet you say nothing about missing your parents when they were gone. Interesting. BTW, I’m not talking about parents working the same hrs. that children are in school. I’m talking about parents working when they should be bonding w/ their children.
from the age of 4, i went to school from 9 am until 2.10 at the very least, and i was the youngest of 4. Our parents returned home from work at half 4 or 5.
Yes i feel i was so deprived from being with my parents for those few hours…
with both my parents working I was able to get a better life because of their salaries. Its surely not a horrific childhood? And no I loved having my minder there, I was so sad when she stopped minding us.
It is always an option for parents to make the necessary sacrifices to stay home and raise their children. If a man and woman can’t afford to have one stay home and raise their children, which is the BEST thing for their children, then they shouldn’t have them. I can’t believe you think the part time parenting you described is good. I think given the choice between that & being parented full time by your parents, you would have chosen being parented full time by your mom and dad, who wouldn’t?
my parents raised me and my siblings at weekends, before school, from 5 onwards and holidays. If one were sick one would stay home.
The fact is that i am no worse off because one parent did not stay home full time. And i’ll have you know, we were darn lucky to get a woman like we did. It is not always an option to have one stay home parent. Parents make sacrifices every day, but by workin you can provide for the family. So if there is no money, there wont be anything to raise the child with.
I don’t care how “nice” someone is, they are not as good as a parent staying home & raising a child. Parents need to make sacrifices so that one can stay home & anyone who wants the best for their child will do that or they will not have children that they can’t afford. Pretty simple really.
so your basically saying that my parents didn’t want the best for me? Sometimes it is nessicary for both parents to work. But let me assure you. We had a woman who came in and minded us when we came home from school and during the day when I was a baby. She was the nicest woman ever and we still consider her to be a second mother. We are still in contact with her.
So please don’t condem those who didnt want the ‘best’ for their child. Its not always possible.
Any person who wants THE BEST for their child will decide that one parent will stay home & one will work. Being raised by a parent who loves the child is BETTER than an overworked, underpaid day care staff member. It is absolutely needed.
i dont think thats absolutely needed.
it doesn’t have to be the mother. One parent needs to stay home w/ the child & the other one can be the provider.
but why does it have to be the mother to ‘rescue’ the child from this hell hole of a day care centre? why not the husband?
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Nobody’s out to take choices away, pick whatever lifestyle you think is best for you, I would argue though that when kids enter the picture they need their mother, not some daycare. But homemaker symbolic of feminism? My role as housewife is routinely distorted & denigrated. Same goes for traditional fatherhood. Perhaps when you saw the word ‘housewife’ you were repulsed, feminism imposed that on me. I know they’re wrong & mine is the most honorable ‘occupation’ a woman can possibly have.
My philosophy is this: the women’s movement gave me the choice to be a homemaker or a working mom or to not marry or have children. I can do whatever I like. I don’t HAVE to be a homemaker and I don’t HAVE to be a woman with a job. I can be married or single or with a same sex partner. I can choose to have children or not. My choice to be a homemaker is just as big a symbol of Feminism as if I chose to be single and be a big time exec.
What I’m saying is that one parent staying at home is better than 2 working w/ a child in a day care or being shoved off onto gramma to raise. A father’s roll is just as important as a mom’s.
I agree, partly. Moms & Dads are equally important but not equal. We’re made differently, we contribute differently in the raising of kids. Not to spark a debate but I believe God did not make us the least bit interchangeable. Switching roles in an emergency is fine but long term reversing roles? Smacks of a social experiment, new age stuff, and why mess with your child’s normal development? And parents miss out on things that are uniquely suited to fulfill them and make them whole too.
And I’m not saying a woman can’t have a career. If she wants one, fine. Maybe the husband could stay home w/ the kids. But if you both want to work, don’t have the kids & if you can’t afford to both not work, don’t have kids or make sacrifices so that one of you CAN stay home. Its really quite simple.
Right!! My mother used to say, “Don’t let your mind become so open that your brains fall out!” Ladies better remember that those influencing them in feminist thinking, whether it’s their favorite Hollywood star, an author, or just someone they admire, they’re not accountable for how your life turns out, if your home is intact, how well your children are raised, YOU ARE. I used to trust the “wisdom” of their words too…gag. But I learned the truth & turned it around…hopefully in time.
You can ALWAYS get another job & go back to work, but you can NEVER get back that time lost while your child sat in an understaffed day care center crying for you! I commend you for choosing a full time parent w/o a job outside the home & NOT a part time parent w/ a full time job. Someday your children will too!
Well put! Feminism is so mainstream that “modern” women see me as foolish that I threw my career away & volunteered to be a “doormat”. Don’t I understand that it’s degrading, I’m a throwback? It’s sad because that debate is considered over in a lot of minds, it’s stamped SOLD. I’m thought of as backwards, an embarrassment in the minds of most typical everyday women. But the fact is everyday women these days are an embarrassment to me. I have to look to women of the past for my role models.
By golly, now I want to study Home Ec!
At first this seems silly. If you pay attention though, this should be required in high school, far and above ridiculously useless things like “multicultural studies.”
your first home may be a trailer?
Miss Jenkins is one annoying, patronizing broad!