11.22.06
Young mothers do not know how to parent because their own mothers worked
Just another friendly reminder to my sons to NEVER ever marry a career woman as first wives. Career women can become second wives so they can bring in extra income for the family. But career women have no business leading families. The first wife must always be a professional home maker.
From Pam as a comment at www.savethemales.ca
The young mothers who are starting to raise children today, have no clue. My husband and I watch them in stores and in restaurants and just shake our heads in despair. [They] do not know how to parent because their own mothers worked. They have no role model. Being a wife and mother is the most important job in the world. It is extremely rewarding and fulfilling. The woman is the heart and hearth of the home which lends stability to society.
Children, nowadays, are raised in institutions. When I hear women crying for better “child-care” I say, ‘raise them, yourself’. Do without that fancy SUV, your vacations to Disney, your family-wide cell-phones, fancy clothes and jewels and extra junk food and you would be surprised to find that it is possible to survive on one income. Of course, there are some mothers who truly need to work in order to put food on the table, I’m not talking about them.
When my daughter was in high school, she would tell me heart-rending stories of her female friends who had terrible, non-existant relationships with thier mothers. I would always ask if the mother in question worked outside the home and the answer would inevitably be, ‘yes’. There were two friends of hers who had a good relationship with their mother, those mothers were traditional, at-home Moms. My daughter and I are very close. It galls me to no end when, here I’ve spent almost thirty years of my life raising children and keeping house, with all that entails, I am shortly to be a grandmother, and yet, my friends will ask me when I’m going to go out and get a “real job’ now that my kids are grown. A lot of people retire from their jobs after 30 or so years. Apparently, mothers are not in that category.
Well, my next ‘real job’ will be to continue to take care of my home and my husband, make his lunch in the morning and have dinner on the table when he gets home and to be a traditional grandmother (another, over-looked, important job). I am also writing a children’s book, an article for an on-line magazine, crochet, am learning to weave, am a voracious reader, am raising dogs, I walk and exercise, I practice and study my religion, meditate and am always learning new things. I’ve always said that Moms who tell me they get too bored at home, lack intelligence.
If there were less working women out there, then there would be more jobs and better pay for the fathers which would allow the mothers to stay home and raise their own children instead of forcing them to be raised by strangers or spending all day long in school (after-care).
