Little Homemakers in Training

[salex]

For all their talk, fundy women really aren't that spectacular of homemakers. You would think there would be more gardens growing vegetables and fruits. Or more healthy foods made from scratch. I see nothing wrong with canning if it's food you have raised in your own yard. These people don't seem to do any of that. Look at the Maxwell post where Mary was making something with canned pumpkin. She couldn't make it from scratch? It's not like she has anything else to really fill her time. I know a working mom with two kids who always makes pumpkin bread from scratch during the fall season. What else are these people doing because it's not like they are hardcore homeschooling? Everything is out of a can or likely frozen. I don't get it. They so badly want to go back to the good old days, so I say why not start with dinner.

They do make the burrito goo from scratch, don't they?

:stir-pot:

[Fallgirl30]

I don't get it really. Why are the girls/women who make their own washing powder from store bought ingredients more holy and embrace their sacred calling more than their sisters who buy washing powder in a package? I don't remember anything in the Bible about what kind of washing powder you should use.

It's a combination of the pressure of trying to be a Proverbs 31 woman, and living in a Pinterest world.

[AmazonGrace]

15

She also rises while it is yet night,

and gives food to her household,

and a portion to her maidens.

...

18

She perceives that her merchandise is good;

her candle does not go out by night.

So if she rises in the early hours she must sleep some time. Yet her candle does not go out by night.

The perfect godly woman does not care that an unattended candle is a fire hazard.

16

She considers a field and buys it;

with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.

Well I'm screwed, vineyards don't succeed where I live. But the proverbs woman seems more capable than the average fundie helpmeet: apparently she is allowed to make land purchases without consulting her headship.

[desertvixen]

For all their talk, fundy women really aren't that spectacular of homemakers.

They so badly want to go back to the good old days, so I say why not start with dinner.

I'd agree with that.

Also what salex said about it being busywork.

Honestly, I'm one of those eeeevil working single moms (and military, so I *gasp* wear pants and tell men what to do) and can still take care of my house. Rooms get vacummed, laundry gets done, feline headships get pampered, litterbox gets cleaned, dinner gets cooked and no cans of soup involved.

[CyborgKin]

So if she rises in the early hours she must sleep some time. Yet her candle does not go out by night.

The perfect godly woman does not care that an unattended candle is a fire hazard.

So she gets up early in the morning, and stays up late. I suppose she also uses a machete to cut through red tape.

Haaaang on a second, Proverbs 31 must be the inspiration for:

"Short Skirt / Long Jacket" - Cake

I want a girl with a mind like a diamond

I want a girl who knows what's best

I want a girl with shoes that cut

And eyes that burn like cigarettes

I want a girl with the right allocations

Who's fast and thorough

And sharp as a tack

She's playing with her jewelry

She's putting up her hair

She's touring the facility

And picking up slack

I want a girl with a short skirt and a lonnnng jacket......

I want a girl who gets up early

I want a girl who stays up late

I want a girl with uninterrupted prosperity

Who uses a machete to cut through red tape

With fingernails that shine like justice

And a voice that is dark like tinted glass

She is fast and thorough

And sharp as a tack

She's touring the facility

And picking up slack

I want a girl with a short skirt and a lonnnnng.... lonnng jacket

I want a girl with a smooth liquidation

I want a girl with good dividends

At Citibank we will meet accidentally

We'll start to talk when she borrows my pen

She wants a car with a cupholder arm rest

She wants a car that will get her there

She's changing her name from Kitty to Karen

She's trading her MG for a white Chrysler La Baron

I want a girl with a short skirt and a lonnnnggggggggg jacket

That's straight out of Proverbs 31, right? :whistle:

[bucket]

It's so weird how I was taught to cook, clean, garden, can produce, make soap, start a fire, tile a floor, wire a light, change fuses, build a deck, knit, sew, play violin, darn socks and like.... DO MATH AND READ BOOKS. How very novel that I could own both a microscope and a sewing machine at age 9! Knowing that I could go out for the weekend after I did chores and wrote a book report (on a different book each week, not the bible.)

This "little homemaker" bullshit makes me irrationally full of rage.

[PregnantPornStar]

Gross. Why is this real. :( First, these are life skills kind of things or if we are talking making soap, hobbies. I have a daughter who is in High School. She is capable of all of these life skills. We just involved her in what we were doing. She is also an excellent student and in all honors/AP classes because, really, I want her to have options to do what she wants in life. I can't even imagine trying to teach her skills so she could be a homemaker in training.

As for my sons...they also help out. In fact, my son loves helping me cook. Loves it. There is no way I am sending my boys out in the world unable to do laundry and cook. Or to clean a toilet.

[Peas n carrots]

Like others I'm baffled as what consists of homemaker training. Like others here I hold down a job but my house is fairly tidy and clean. There are things I want to reorganize but you can only do so much of that until you are fully organized.

I'm guessing a homemaker in training really is code for sister-mom who will pick up the slack for an overwhelmed quiver full mom.

[Peas n carrots]

Oh look how ironic

[salex]

I poked around on this site a bit more and it led me to their other website blessedhomestead.com/ which I did a double take to make sure they weren't the Nauglers.

They aren't. But they are stereotypical fundies. The blog has the same sections and themes as many if not most of the blogs we talk about here. They have Josh Duggar as an example of great homeschooling, a list of the rules the Duggars follow, the usual discourse on "A Homemaker Is A Full Time Stay-At-Home Woman" that explains that most women who are working want to be home, and should be because working makes women sick and working women can't make wholesome food for their families. (Good grief-- ssdd)

They talk about prepping, "training" children, scheduling.... unfettered fertility, etc. Not a lot of comments, but they have hit all the standard buttons.

[LadyBlue]

You know, I'm a terrible housekeeper & I'd love a personalized class on how to keep my tiny place clean with 4 growing boys constantly destroying it (especially if that class also included tips on making your husband stop hoarding dvds and power cables) and info about easier ways to clean ovens and schedules for cleaning things. Stuff like that. Buuuttt....I'm pretty sure it wouldn't take an entire childhood's worth of time to pick that stuff up. I bet a good organizer/cleaning specialist could teach me all that stuff in a few hours.

My mom (who actually has a Home Ec DEGREE) kept a fairly clean house, did tons of baking and made a lot of the common for the time foods and was able to learn new stuff as she went along, but she didn't teach most of it to me in any systemic fashion. My sister and I had to do dishes, put our laundry away and keep our rooms from being a hazard, but that's about it. Everything else I learned by just watching her. And, if I do say so myself, when I have the energy to do it, I'm a damn good cook and a good baker.

I feel so sorry for those girls. They don't even get a chance to experience anything else. Meanwhile, my junior high school in the mid-80s required every student to take both home ec and shop class in grades 7-9. I loved shop. I made so many cool things in that class.

[DaffyDill]

You know, I'm a terrible housekeeper & I'd love a personalized class on how to keep my tiny place clean with 4 growing boys constantly destroying it (especially if that class also included tips on making your husband stop hoarding dvds and power cables) and info about easier ways to clean ovens and schedules for cleaning things. Stuff like that. Buuuttt....I'm pretty sure it wouldn't take an entire childhood's worth of time to pick that stuff up. I bet a good organizer/cleaning specialist could teach me all that stuff in a few hours.

My mom (who actually has a Home Ec DEGREE) kept a fairly clean house, did tons of baking and made a lot of the common for the time foods and was able to learn new stuff as she went along, but she didn't teach most of it to me in any systemic fashion. My sister and I had to do dishes, put our laundry away and keep our rooms from being a hazard, but that's about it. Everything else I learned by just watching her. And, if I do say so myself, when I have the energy to do it, I'm a damn good cook and a good baker.

I feel so sorry for those girls. They don't even get a chance to experience anything else. Meanwhile, my junior high school in the mid-80s required every student to take both home ec and shop class in grades 7-9. I loved shop. I made so many cool things in that class.

Re the bolded: So did/does mine! She taught Home economics at high schools. She can cook really well, knits, crochets and sews and I hate all three. Cooking is fine, when I'm in the mood, nut because she tried SO hard to make me sew, crochet and knit, I kind of hate them now.

She taught me to do the above things, and as a teenager I had to clean my bathroom, my bedroom, do my own ironing and vacuum and dust occasionally. She taught my boys to knit and crochet when they were younger, too, although they have forgotten now. I get them to clean their own rooms, do their own washing/ironing, clean their bathroom, and they also vacuum sometimes, and mow the lawn. My stepson who is living with us has been taught zero, zilch, nada by his mother, but I make him do his own washing, and he is certainly going to start doing more around the house here soon, too. At least I hope he is, I have never, ever seen such a messy, untidy person in all my life.... :pull-hair:

I really feel sorry for these little girls. Unless they break with their family, and risk possibly being shunned like Alecia Faith Pennington, they're expected to just get to around 18, then be married and have babies and do what they have already been doing their whole lives. No chance to explore the world, meet different people, try new things. It's so sad.