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SHE sews, cooks, knits, gardens and raises chooks. The housewife is back – with younger women embracing traditional domestic crafts in droves, new figures show.
Sewing machines have rocketed off shelves in the past six months, with Lincraft reporting a 30 per cent increase in sales.
Perhaps as famlies become more and more disfunctional with both parents working for more materialism and their kids being raised by strangers, that there is a simple resergence back to people actually valuing their family more then their toys.
We did something like that. Granted it meant living in a 900 SF house and not having a 52" flat panel TV... but we're much happier and closer than ever. My DW cooks, sews, knits... and for some extra income (about $15,000 per year vice what she made as a teacher) she writes and teaches piano.
Perhaps as famlies become more and more disfunctional with both parents working for more materialism and their kids being raised by strangers, that there is a simple resergence back to people actually valuing their family more then their toys.
We did something like that. Granted it meant living in a 900 SF house and not having a 52" flat panel TV... but we're much happier and closer than ever. My DW cooks, sews, knits... and for some extra income (about $15,000 per year vice what she made as a teacher) she writes and teaches piano.
Shop at stereotypes are us much?
Too bad I can't give this post negative rep points.
Let's look at what's changed since the 1950's. Permanent press, washers and dryers, dishwashers, microwave ovens, no wax floors....etc, etc, etc... the end result is today's mom who works full time has more time for her family than a 1950's stay at home mom did with hers. They took so much work out of staying home that we have time left over for full time jobs and then some.
Plus some of us have something really novel. A dad in the home who actually pulls his weight (my husband just finished making dinner so I'll be back in a bit ). Families only become dysfunctional when both parents work if the parents don't work together. I see too many men who think the wife should still do it all in addition to having a job. With all of our modern conveniences and both parents dividing child care and housework, it's not hard at all and there's plenty of time left for family, and yes, sometimes it's in front of that 52 in flat panel but so what? What's wrong with enjoying life? Some of us don't think struggling and living in cramped quarters and living paycheck to paycheck is fun and whether or not both parents work isn't one of the things that influences how kids turn out.
Oh, and I knit too
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I wouldn't mind testing out the house-husband role. Work stress is shorting my life span.
I have to admit the lowered stress level is attractive but I'd hate to think of the stress I'd be putting on my husband's shoulders.
You know what I wish? I wish there were more part time jobs so both parents could do something like work 30 hours a week and both could enjoy extra time off while still providing their families with the benefits of two incomes.
Too bad I can't give this post negative rep points.
Let's look at what's changed since the 1950's. Permanent press, washers and dryers, dishwashers, microwave ovens, no wax floors....etc, etc, etc... the end result is today's mom who works full time has more time for her family than a 1950's stay at home mom did with hers. They took so much work out of staying home that we have time left over for full time jobs and then some.
Plus some of us have something really novel. A dad in the home who actually pulls his weight (my husband just finished making dinner so I'll be back in a bit ). Families only become dysfunctional when both parents work if the parents don't work together. I see too many men who think the wife should still do it all in addition to having a job. With all of our modern conveniences and both parents dividing child care and housework, it's not hard at all and there's plenty of time left for family, and yes, sometimes it's in front of that 52 in flat panel but so what? What's wrong with enjoying life? Some of us don't think struggling and living in cramped quarters and living paycheck to paycheck is fun and whether or not both parents work isn't one of the things that influences how kids turn out.
Oh, and I knit too
Just a tad touchy, are we?
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). Families only become dysfunctional when both parents work if the parents don't work together. I see too many men who think the wife should still do it all in addition to having a job. With all of our modern conveniences and both parents dividing child care and housework, it's not hard at all and there's plenty of time left for family, and yes, sometimes it's in front of that 52 in flat panel but so what? What's wrong with enjoying life? Some of us don't think struggling and living in cramped quarters and living paycheck to paycheck is fun and whether or not both parents work isn't one of the things that influences how kids turn out. 
