To Be the “Perfect Housewife” or not to be…?
What is the right way to describe a “housewife”? I don’t know if it is the right terminology. I seriously believe that a woman can have it all. She can be an amazing mother, an executive chef, a “merry maid” and a grab the bull by the horns business woman, and of course a supportive wife.
There are so many different cultures that consider a woman to be in charge of the household. For instance, in a Hindu family, the man is called the Griha Swami and the woman is called the Griha Swamini. Basically the man is the head of the house but they are described as a “team”. The couple lives in the state called “Grihastashram” or a family system. They nurture the family and help the members in it, both young and old, through the hard times and joyous times. They are a housewife team.
In China it was a different story. There was laws enforcing women to stay in the home and their daughters were forced to follow their mothers around throughout the day to learn their “duties” for their future marriages. Nowadays in China, the housewife is not as easily found, the woman in China is now needed to work because of the fact that one person’s income is not sufficient in the major cities.
In previous decades, teenagers in high school were forced to take classes on homemaking. Basically taught them how to cook, clean, raise babies and of course to sew!!! Who doesn’t want to learn how to sew!?! ME!! That’s who! To be made to learn these things were, back then, in the norm of things. Now if you take a cooking class in high school its for and easy A on your GPA, I know it was for me. But why have times changed so much? There are the obvious reasons, teen pregnancies and single mothers (at least the major reasons). But why has society changed so much as to being a stay at home mom or a housewife become a degrading thing? Maybe degrading is the wrong word, I’m trying to say the some people men and women would laugh at the fact that a mom stays at home, and doesn’t “have a job”. Did you know that a stay at home mom saves a family on average about $80,000!!!! That is one hefty paycheck and so worth it. As we all know, mothers and housewives work many unrecorded hours… I do believe that that might be the understatement of the entire century… Many these women rely on their partners or spouses to bring home health insurance and benefits of their careers and jobs.
I give my full respect to those women that stay at home with their children, and their home, and their dogs, and their laundry, and I could go on and on and on with that list.
Many modern women choose to leave the workforce to be at home and build their children’s development in behavior and attitude. Some plan to go back to work or back to college to receive higher education. To be able to stay at home and develop your child’s behavior, to be able to raise them as you would like to, to me is very important. If the child doesn’t respect their mother…then who will they respect?
Even myself not being a fulltime stay at home mom, I understand what it means to do that. I give you my u tmost love and respect. Thank you for being the “housewife” or the “homemaker” it means a lot to the world and sets an example that we will soon realize could change a family tree for a lifetime.
God only Loves,
Mina
P.S: Some great websites to check out after reading this blog; The Retro Housewife and The Perfect Housewife. One has views on how to have some fun being one and the other just has HOW TO’S!!!
