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🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
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🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
12hr ago
My SAHM mother did to the socializing legwork, which is why I recognize this as part of the job. Everyone knows someone in their job who doesn't seem to do anything and skates by, homemaking is no different. But judging a job by people who don't do it well isn't the best way to assess its usefulness.
Men's social fabric will fall apart when women's stop socializing. Who do you think gets to meet up at these parties and picnics the women organized?
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🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
14hr ago
There is a point in teaching children to read before they go into a school that teaches them the wrong way. After schools dropped phonics and switched to whole language approaches to reading, it became harder to correct a kid's bad habits. If a kid learns the right way to read is to look at pictures and guess, then a couple years down the line a struggling reader will be a nightmare to teach. Instead of sounding out words, which takes work and is hard, the kid will keep drifting to old bad habits.
I highly recommend teaching a kid to read phonetically at least up to The Cat in the Hat (so largely simple consonants, consonant blends, and consonant digraphs) before they go into kindergarten if you can. Some kids really can't because they lack the phonemic awareness necessary, like my daughter, but I wish I had held her back a year in the end because it was an expensive and time consuming mistake to fix.
When kids are in school, a homemakers primary job is to socialize. That's actually important! Volunteer, talk with people, find out special programs that other parents are sending their children to so that your kids get the advantages as well. Organize parties, picnics. Create a community. Organize a meal train when someone is sick. The social fabric is falling apart and no one thinks it has anything to do with the decline of people who went out to coffee every Monday after dropping off the kids and made strong and weak social ties across the local area?
There are people in this thread who say homemakers just watch TV all day because chores only take a little bit of time. I didn't say your mother is one of these people, but there is this attitude that homemakers don't need to exist that I'm pushing back on. They actually did a lot for us and we still don't realize it.
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