House Wife vs. Stay-at-Home-Mom

The only people who worked to make it degrading are feminazis who are not credible anyway

 

I know quite a few.

 

That title only works for women who have children still at home. There are quite a few women out there in their 40's who have grown children and an empty nest.

 

In some circles I am sure that is true. But it is not as wide spread as you might think it is.

 

I label myself as a homemaker. "Housewife" would imply that I'm only a wife who stays home or that I'm not a wife elsewhere. I'm also a stay-at-home mother, so I'm not specifically staying home just because I am a wife. I don't work outside of the home because I work hard during the day to create a warm, safe, comfortable environment for my family. I make the house a home.

 

I refer to myself as a homemaker, housewife, and stay-at-home-mom. None of these titles offend me. I think any of them are appropriate for my role.

Once in a while someone will ask me if I work. . .and I tell them I'm a cook, teacher, chauffer, maid, nurse, seamstress, you name it. :laugh:

 

I asked my wife, and she said to just call her "boss."

Is that wrong?

 

If you ask my wife, she'll tell you that housewife or homemaker is fine with her.

You know, we don't have a TV, so a lot of our entertainment comes from listening to old radio shows and one of the shows we like to listen to is "You Bet Your Life". For you younger folks, it was a game show in the 40's and 50's that starred Groucho Marx and a man and woman from the audience.

Because this was the 40's and 50's, very few women worked outside the home, so those who weren't secretaries or school teachers would answer "homemaker" or "housewife" when Groucho asked them what they do for a living.

The one thing that always strikes me about this is the great amount of pride they have in being homemakers. Today, many people look down on homemakers, but these ladies (another concept lost in today's society) recognized the importance of a homemaker and viewed it as a vocation and with just as much pride as a woman today would view being a doctor or a lawyer.

It's a tragedy that we've lost that respect for homemakers because, be it doctor, lawyer, or indian chief, there is no greater calling for a woman than to be a Godly woman who is a helpmate to her husband and makes a home where her children are raised in the fear and admonition of the Lord.

My wife, Julie, has a list of college degrees as long as your arm. She was a forensic accountant and routinely consulted with the FBI and other state and federal law enforcement agencies to help catch bad guys. She had a very exciting and fulfilling career.

She didn't get fired from being a forensic accountant, she quit because she recognized that the world is full of forensic accountants, but that our children only have one mother and I only have one wife. She knew that our home needs her more than the world needs another accountant and so, in 1996, she quit her job and became a full time mom.

Quite frequently, we'll be at a party or some other gathering and some woman (usually the one with the most expensive clothes and driving the Lexus) will turn her nose up at Julie's decision, saying something like "But you seem so smart!" or "Oh, doesn't being around children all day just drive you crazy?" or my personal favorite, "Oh, I wish I could just sit around the house all day, too."

Too many people today just don't get it.

 

What is driving Ms. Jaynes to pit the title houseWIFE against stay-at-home MOM rather than embrace them both?
There are many titles—homemaker, lady of the house, keeper at home(Titus 2:5)—which controvert Ms. Jaynes's agenda-driven false dichotomy.

 

I think more then anything, it doesn't define the woman, but her role, what she does, shes a house wife, home maker, who also stays home to care for her children, verses a wife who has left her children's care to others. I'm not sure it was meant to degrade anyone, but define the rols she is fulfilling, house wife leave sout the children, mothers today are proud of their children enough to be with them raisng them themselves.
I don't think I'd let some book guide my thinking to the point theres something wrong with me being called a mom.

 

That would be me, and I call myself a homemaker, because I make a home for my husband to come home too, if I didn't it would be only a house,a building we take shelter in, I want more then that for him. When I had kids at home, I never worked, raising our kids was too important, then I called myself a stay at home mom, because thats what I was, a mom who was at home with her children.