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.
Every day growing up, my mom would curl her hair and put on lipstick just before my dad got home. Then when he got home, they would have a cocktail together in the living room and chat.
I’ve never done that for my husband. He’s lucky if there is a cold beer in the refrigerator.
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.
I ask them who does the laundry, cooking and cleaning. Usually, it is them, when they get home from an 8 hr day and on their weekends.
I took care of the "housework" mostly during the day, spent time with the family after dinner (which hubby and kids cleaned up)and enjoyed many things on the weekends.
Most women today are overworked, overstressed and burned out. They complain that they don't have enough "time for themselves" yet can't imagine not holding a full-time job or worse yet state, "We can't get by on just one income" (as they both drive expensive cars, eat out most of the time, send kids to expensive classes, camps, dance, etc. lessons and take vacations regularly to Disney!
That’s something couples should figure out before they have the first baby. It was an absolute blessing to us that we had already set things up so we were living on one salary when my husband lost his job this summer. (Of course, it was supposed to be his salary that we were living on, but mine worked!)
Now he’s got a new great job and I’m still chipping in until my baby’s born... maybe part time afterwards if my company continues to want my services part time and from home.
I grew up in the 60’s and although my Mom didn’t clean house in heels wearing pearls, she was always dressed up and looked beautiful by the time my Dad walked in the door... it was important to her to look good for him.
You’re right. Without a plan and being sure you can afford to stay home you’re gambling. You can make it, but...being worn out all the time and stressed over money isn’t the best recipe for good mothering.
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.
My mom was a stay-at-home mom. When she passes there will more than we can probably remember to say about her and her life and she only made it to the seventh grade. She had siblings to stay at home and take care of before she had kids.
My dad supported us back then. Never took a vacation. Loved his work in the steel mill.
Get out of my head!. >:)
I’d hit that.
You’d hit anything. ;)
“I grew up in the 60’s and although my Mom didn’t clean house in heels wearing pearls, she was always dressed up and looked beautiful by the time my Dad walked in the door... it was important to her to look good for him.”
My wife has been a homemaker for 15 years now. We have no kids. When I get home she’s wearing sweats and watching Judge Judy or that woman whose show always reports on crimes (like the girl who disappeared in Aruba and the new case down in Florida where the little kid went missing and they just found her skeleton and arrested her mother). I pour my own beer. We’ve been married for 25 years.
Look around you. The odds are, whatever it is, I've already hit it.
“Not if you don’t like housework.”
Move to the Rep. of Panama where I live.
It is heaven for us ladies who hate housework.
For not too much money, I have a man and a woman who come through my house twice a week. House is cleaned from top to bottom. There is ironing, laundry, etc., and much, much more like pluming, etc. when necessary.
Some clothing of any kind needs to be repaid or altered to include fitted sheets? Not to worry. I send it to a professional seamstress which is not expensive and one of the best (having tried many).
I do my own cooking. It relaxes me.
Sewing? My mother taught me how to sew when I was tiny.
She also taught me now to cook and iron when I was tiny. I refuse to iron.
Further:
I HATE HOUSEWORK!!!
My best regards to you. We think alike.
Tell me more about Panama.
This response makes me sad on a number of levels.
1) Partnerships do not mean that everyone is contributing in the same way. If, in fact, each member of the team is performing their part rather than trying to do everything, the results are generally better. The statement that men should help with the housework, women should help with the finances is as bad as saying that women should stay home, barefoot and pregnant.
2) You have no idea what role she was playing on “their team”. No matter how close you were to the situation, unless you were one of the participants, you don’t know her contribution.
3) That a bunch of people at a funeral weren’t nominating her for a Nobel Prize doesn’t mean that her life was not the one that she wanted. It was, after all, her life, not the spectators’ life.
4) Her total value (all of our total values) lies in our existence as children of God and not in some subjective measurement of productivity.
5) Neither she, nor you, nor I am responsible to anyone else to serve the whole (college education not withstanding).
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.
As an at home mother I was busier and more happy than at any one time in my life.
Some people have the lives that they want.
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. I lost a friend who was disgusted with me not using my advanced degree.
She didnt understand that what I was doing was more fun and more creative than anything I had ever done, including defending my thesis.
As an at home mother I was busier and more happy than at any one time in my life.
Some people have the lives that they want.
My wife has been a homemaker for 15 years now. We have no kids. When I get home she’s wearing sweats and watching Judge Judy or that woman whose show always reports on crimes (like the girl who disappeared in Aruba and the new case down in Florida where the little kid went missing and they just found her skeleton and arrested her mother). I pour my own beer. We’ve been married for 25 years.
She doesnt know what she is losing.
What about Donna Reed?
She can add it to her green belt in TaeKwonDo.
I have never understood how sacrificing the most valuable thing you have--time--for the benefit of some corporation is a worthwhile use of your talents. On the contrary, it just sucks the energy out of you and prevents you from having the time to truly use your talents.
Here's an example. I love art. I have a little talent. I'd like to spend some time painting pictures. I'd also like to do some more writing for publication. I want to learn how to play the classical guitar, take dressage lessons, take some courses in history, volunteer at a favorite charity. None of these are things you can really make a living at, so they have to be for "spare" time. When I was younger and a stay-at-home mom, I had time for that stuff, and I did a lot of it side-by-side with my kids. Now I'm working all day, and when I get off work I have errands to run, dinner to make, homework to help with, cleaning and laundry to do. By the time I get done with everything that needs to be done, it's 11 p.m. and I'm flat on my face. My talents are being wasted and the corporation is getting the best of me, not my family. This is not a good thing for the family, only for the company.
Marriage should be a partnership; women need to pitch in and help with the family finances (and men need to help with housework).
Agreed, marriage should be a partnership. But the stay-at-home mom is helping with the family finances when she takes care of the children, housekeeping, cooking, shopping, laundry, chores, errands, and the myriad other functions that keep a family running. The family then doesn't have to pay to have someone cut the grass, or supervise the children, or tutor them in their homework, or wallpaper the bathroom. This is her contribution, and it's very valuable and would be quite costly to replace. Running a family is a full-time job, and if the woman is working outside the house she has two jobs to do.
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’.
Wow, is she lucky. What the heck does she do all day?
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Forbes Notes Panama’s Prosperity
Thursday, December 18 2008 @ 03:44 PM EST
Contributed by: Don Winner
Bob Bauman - A leading U.S. financial magazine, Forbes, has taken note of something we’ve been talking about for months — the fact that the Republic of Panama, one of our favorite offshore jurisdictions, so far has escaped the worst impact of the worldwide recession harming other nations.
The Dec. 8th edition of Forbes sees three important factors producing Panama’s seeming immune from the global financial mess. Construction, Canal & Colon:
First, the Panamanian construction sector remains in hyper-growth mode as it has been for several years, even though there are sign the condo fever is waning in Panama City. Forbes notes that U.S. retirees are attracted by the comparatively lower cost of living, the ease of a dollarized economy, the presence of many English-speaking expats and locals and the proximity to the United States.
A second major factor is the Panama Canal widening construction project that is boosting the nation’s economy, the largest infrastructure project in Latin America with a tentative tag price of $5.2 billion. Already underway, the project is pumping money into the local service-based economy, which should easily reach the 7-8% growth in 2009 according to International Monetary Fund projections.
The third important reason for prosperity is the massive income generated by the Colon Free Zone, (second in size only to Hong Kong), representing almost 8% of the Panama economy.
Last year, bilateral trade between the U.S. and Panama totaled $4.1 billion, up by nearly one billion over 2006. One third of Panama’s imports come from the United States, and 36% of its total exports are bound for the United States.
Continuing Boom:
Panama’s economy grew by 9.2% in the 3rd quarter over the year ago period, helped by expansion of agriculture, manufacturing and services, the government reported Monday. Between July and September GDP grew to $4.73 billion, up $400 million from the same period in 2007.
Panama’s economy is expected to grow 9.5% in 2008 and at least 7.5% in 2009, as the impact of the consumer slowdown in the United States begins to hit global trade. Transport, including shipping through the country’s famous canal, accounts for about a fifth of Panama’s gross domestic product.
According to the government, other growth sectors continue to flourish including the construction sector, which has transformed Panama City’s skyline into a mass of skyscrapers. In the third quarter, the construction sector grew 28.8% over a year ago, accounting for just over 5% of GDP, but a sign of slowing was shown in a 30% construction decline in September compared to a year ago.
Panama has posted 23 consecutive quarters of economic growth, growing gross domestic product by 11.5% in 2007, which is double the pace of the rest of Latin America and well ahead of the United States. These numbers rival powerhouse China in terms of national GDP growth.
But one veteran local observer urges caution: “I am amazed that they can state that even though the condo bubble appears to be bursting, Panama is doing ‘brilliantly’. When stories like that come out you can be sure things are not as rosy as they would like you to think.”
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