The lost art of being a House Wife.

[Technosoul]

A southern Baptist collage is now offering a class on how to be a good Christian house wife, devoted to husband an family. Like back in the "good old days" before the women's lib movement.

hmm, a PH.D in the occupation of being a house wife?

This class is for women only and will teach women the lost skills of how to be a stay at home mom. You can learn how to decorate your house, how to treat your husband, how be a good mother to your children, how to acturally cook in the kitchen without using the microwave. Perhaps even how to mop floors and clean the bathroom up spic and span.

And they will toss in a few biblical passages about the woman's proper role in society.

So, wanna be a Christian mom - here is your big chance to learn that lost art.

I cannot yet find a link for the collage offering that class, but they did a story on this at CNN news.

So what do you think - have women forgotten how to be good housewives and mothers?

[Mia]

I think I can learn to decorate from decorating books, magazines and shows. Same for cooking. Same for parenting. I'm not going near a course that is going to talk about my proper role anywhere, I will leave that up to me and my hubby to decide what works for us.

I think there are a lot more Moms/housewives than you give credit for.

My step-mom keeps the house perfect, cooks real meals for my father and the grandkids every single day, and her whole life is about taking care of everyone else. She's doing that proper role bit, it is her Christian belief that tells her that, and it works for them.

But my hubby will have to compromise if that's what he's looking for.

I'm more of a trade-off type. If he wants to set me up financially as well as be a good husband in the really important ways, I will become a great cook and keep the house neat as a pin.

But if we're both working the same amount, I'm not going to have a second full time job because I have a vagina. Men can vacuum too.

[Osborn F Enready]

If I was a woman, I would take this as an insult I think.

College courses for home-making?

Is there no end?

[ZNFYRH]

Actually, this isn't a new thing.

In my college days, there was a similar degree program, but it was actually very interesting.

You learned economics as far as budgeting and savings and investments and loans were concerned.

You learned household chemistry and biology.

I think it was a 2-year degree program, but it was actually very good stuff... I took a couple of the classes (to meet girls) and ended up learning a thing or two.

[Osborn F Enready]

ZNYFRH said:
In my college days, there was a similar degree program, but it was actually very interesting.

You learned economics as far as budgeting and savings and investments and loans were concerned.

In my high school days, that was part of home-ec and family planning.

[Technosoul]

Actually, this isn't a new thing.

In my college days, there was a similar degree program, but it was actually very interesting.

You learned economics as far as budgeting and savings and investments and loans were concerned.

You learned household chemistry and biology.

I think it was a 2-year degree program, but it was actually very good stuff... I took a couple of the classes (to meet girls) and ended up learning a thing or two.

They will no doubt teach people how to maintain the household budget.

They do not allow men to take the class, so the idea of becoming a house-husband like John Lennon did, is not and idea they support.

It would be a good program if a girl did not get much hand-me-down knowledge about homekeeping from her own mother.

I for one do not think there is a great shortage of girls in America who not smart enough to run a house hold if they were interested in doing so. Assuming her husband made enough so they both did not have to work to make ends meet. The news reported that they had 15 girls sign up for the first class.

But I think one of the objectives of the chruch collage is to encourage women to be stay-at-home moms, as they might feel that removing the housewife mother from our culture to make her into a CEO of some company is undermining the fabric of a moral Amreica which is founded on them old "family values".

My mom worked and then came home and made supper, ironed cloths while praying to her self, then was in bed by nine oclock sharp. I helped out doing the dishes. She and pop got home about three hours after I got out of school. So I had the house alone to get some "quality time" with my highschool sweetheart. (thank goodness mom never came home early from work). She worked for the President of a company that designed and made the Black Hawk Choppers, back when the project was still top secret.

Today they had another story about a Christian collage that teaches students how to become "Christian Lawyers and Judges", with a class on how to interpret the the Consitution from a Christain perspective. The students are sur-named "God's Pitbulls' and the idea is that the only way to change the nation into a moral relality is to change the laws.
The students will also devote time to help out those who cannot afford those more expensive lawyers, once they earn their degree form the Christian collage.

I just found out that CNN news has a religious program being aired with debates about religious topics. Hosted by Roland S Martin.

Today they talked about God, sex, and greed (aka capitalism and materialism). They had one wealthy guy and one prono star debate some preachers, one Baptist, on Jewish spokesman, one Islam lady speaking on behalf of islamic thought.

RolandSMartin.com // Welcome

[Mia]

So they got home from work at the same time, and then your Mom started her second job. What did you Dad do while she was working her second job caring for the home?

[Mia]

When women are not in the work force, the country is wasting 50% of its talent and everyone suffers.

[Technosoul]

So they got home from work at the same time, and then your Mom started her second job. What did you Dad do while she was working her second job caring for the home?

He went into the garage with his shopsmith and built her a new bunch of kitchen cabinets, he was always woodworking an making things, but some days he would just sit back and read the newspaper for a few hours, so he could yak yak at work (in those days TV news only lasted for one half hour). He loved the Sunday paper and it took him nearly half a day to study it. Moms hobby was planting flowers and gardening. That was after we moved to California and I started highschool. At was about that time my brother got home from service in the Airforce and he got a job at a near by factory and restored Model A Fords as a hobby. My sister, one year younger then me, I cannot recall much of what she did.
She later went to Bible School and married a Preacher. I mowed the grass and washed the car. My hobby in school was photographing nature and fosil hunting. My brother gave me an 8mm camera and I went off alone to film things, a grasshopper sheding it's skeleton, time laps films of flowers opening up, and I spent weeks at an orange tree filming this nesting hummingbird as they raised their baby that hatched from a tiny egg, I used long distance lens so as not to trouble them, had shots of the parents feeding the baby (they only had one in the nest), then one day near sunset I filmed the baby bird as it went to the edge of the nest, and took it's first flight, and landed in some near by trees, the parents stayed close as it experimented it's first journey. That sunset part made a great ending for my nature film.

My other hobby was dating and crusing around at night with my friends acting like hoods. I think I got about 5 or 6 tickets the first year.

Hmm, I think we are off my own topic. Anyway I think my mom did a good job as a housewife and mother. Without a collage degree. Plus she worked her way up into some good paying jobs, without a collage degree, and when she retired she became an award winning artist, and no one showed her how.

[Sweet Katie]

A southern Baptist collage is now offering a class on how to be a good Christian house wife, devoted to husband an family. Like back in the "good old days" before the women's lib movement.

hmm, a PH.D in the occupation of being a house wife?

This class is for women only and will teach women the lost skills of how to be a stay at home mom. You can learn how to decorate your house, how to treat your husband, how be a good mother to your children, how to acturally cook in the kitchen without using the microwave. Perhaps even how to mop floors and clean the bathroom up spic and span.

And they will toss in a few biblical passages about the woman's proper role in society.

So, wanna be a Christian mom - here is your big chance to learn that lost art.

I cannot yet find a link for the collage offering that class, but they did a story on this at CNN news.

So what do you think - have women forgotten how to be good housewives and mothers?

Where do I sign up for this class? And does it come with a husband with the means to support me? :)

My mother didn't work, and she could have used the above-referenced class. In her defense, though, she didn't have a mother growing up so she didn't really know a lot of the "stuff". I am a biproduct of her ignorance.

The term "Christian Mom" -- is that a relative term or something that is set in the bi-laws of the congregation? Since many Christian females have financial occupations, the term appears to be subjective. Therefore, I tend to lean toward the side that there were probably a large percentage of females from the 1940s who would have failed the "Christian Mom" test too.

One final note: Just because a female doesn't work, it doesn't mean that she has an easy life. My mother didn't have a financial occupation, and she didn't have any money . . . No money for clothes . . . No money for fun outings . . .

[Sweet Katie]

So they got home from work at the same time, and then your Mom started her second job. What did you Dad do while she was working her second job caring for the home?

I may love you.

[Gods_Mercenary]

In my high school days, that was part of home-ec and family planning.

Never had that, went to an all male prep school (not as bad as you'd think, no girls during daytime, but we were bada** at sports and could get away with any sexual joke in the book, not to mention that, like, a thousand girls came to our dances.)

I could see where an overall home ec class might be needed, I wouldn't think thaere should be a college course, but if women will take it.