Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Stay at Home Mothers of the Past



Christian families have changed their viewpoint quite a bit over the past several years.  Instead of embracing women as being keepers at home, we often hear excuses about how it is too hard to do this.

Only about forty years ago, it was normal for mothers to stay home. People didn't have nearly the expectation of lifestyle that many do today. They didn't have computers or cell phones, etc.  Families had one landline, and they had to be very careful to call long distance only during the "cheap" times.  Families had much smaller, less luxurious houses.  Some families lived in an apartment or trailer until they had been married for several years and had a few children before they finally were able to buy their first house. Families bought clothes from secondhand, cheap places.  It was a luxury to go to Walmart and buy something new, like for a birthday or Christmas.  Families were very frugal in many ways.  Instead of women going to work to bring in money, they sacrificed financially for a husband to go to school to get a degree if it was necessary.

We need to rethink our priorities.  Our priorities should not be to have more money or more "stuff".  The priority should always be for women to be the keepers of their homes and for men to be the providers, like the Bible says.

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18 comments:

  1. QUERIDA HERMANA EN CRISTO: ME SIENTO TAN IDENTIFICADA CON TU COMENTARIO, COMO ME DUELE VER HOY MUJERES, MADRES QUE NO QUIEREN ESTAR NI UN SOLO MOMENTO EN SU HOGAR, CUIDANDO DE SUS HIJOS, HACIENDO LAS TAREAS DOMESTICAS, SALEN AL MUNDO A BUSCAR LO QUE EL HOGAR NO LES PUEDE DAR, BUSCAN NUEVAS AVEWNTURAS, DICEN QUE CUIDAR DEL HOGAR FORMA PARTE DEL PASADO, QUE TRISTE, TENGO UNA HIJA QUE PIENSA ASI, TIENE 2 HIJOS Y AHORA QUIERE ESTUIDIAR, HACER UNA CARRERA, ME DICE ASI: NO QUIERO SER COMO VOS, QUE SACRIFICASTE TODO PARA TUS HIJOS Y TU ESPOSO,Y CONCLUYE: TENGO OTRAS METAS EN MI MENTE. AMO A MI HIJA Y SOLO ORO POR ELLA, SU ESPOSO TRABAJA DURO PARA QUE NO LE FALTE NADA, PERO ELLA QUIERE SALIR IGUAL, BUENO QUE DIOS LE DE SABIDURIA PARA ENTENDER LO QUE EL QUIERE. YO HACE MAS DE 40 AÑOS QUE ESTOY FELIZMENTE CASADA CON MI AMADO ESPOSO, HEMOS SIDO BEWNDECIDOS CON 12 HIJOS Y AMO MI HOGAR Y ESTAR EN EL, OCUPANDOME DE MIS OBLIGACIONES. BENDICIONES DESDE BUENOS AIRES.

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  2. God bless you, dear sister in Christ, as you seek to follow the Lord. Hopefully your daughter's heart will be changed so that she will stay home to care for her family. It is such a blessing when women do this. May God bless you and your family.

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  3. Yes, I agree with what you post. I am heart broken when mothers do not stay home. There is always a way to make it work...

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  4. Greetings,

    I so agree with you. This world is so upside-down. I'm pretty old now and as I think back I have fond memories of the simple boundaries and contentment I grew up in. Also, when I think of all the things that I got as I grew that were of now value for real living.
    Thank you for your blog.
    Trish Clark

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  5. Greetings,

    I so agree with you. This world is so upside-down. I'm pretty old now and as I think back I have fond memories of the simple boundaries and contentment I grew up in. Also, when I think of all the things that I got as I grew that were of no value for real living.
    Thank you for your blog.
    Trish Clark

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  6. Another tragic issue today is the huge college debt women burden themselves with. They go into marriage with it and have to work for years to pay it off. 😢

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  7. Yes, Deb, that is sadly true. More people in the church need to realize this so they stop encouraging all the young women to go to college.

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  8. Yes, Trish, the world is so upside down. Younger mothers need to hear about how things used to be and learn the wisdom of times past. Thanks for writing in.

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  9. It makes me so sad too, Gigi. Our world has changed so much I believe in many ways as a direct consequence of this.

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  10. How refreshing this site is. I'm a stay at home mom with a 3-month old daughter, also tending a small farm. I used to work on computers all day, but it's so satisfying to know I'm raising the next generation instead of having strangers at a daycare raise our child (we'll be homeschooling too, or possibly looking into a Mennonite or Amish school). I don't miss working on the computers at the workplace at all and my husband and I are quite happy. Feeling blessed!

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  11. I'm thankful everyday I never went to college. No debt for me. And at 25, all I want is to be married now and have a family

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  12. God bless you Rosa! I pray you are blessed with a sweet godly, husband and children soon. 🙏☺️

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  13. Rosa Francis That is wonderful. I'm sure you didn't miss out on anything. May the Lord bless you with a godly husband with many children to come.

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  14. Renei Hundley-PearsonJune 3, 2019 at 3:19 AM

    I couldn’t agree more

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  15. ❤️🙏🏻

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  16. To the lady planning to homeschool or perhaps send your child to a Mennonite or Amish school: I'm so glad the post blessed you. I do think homeschooling is far superior than the other options you mention, as you will be with your child all day, knowing exactly what is going on with her life. You can instruct her as we see in the Bible, training up your child in God's ways. Nothing can replace that strong bond that will be built in being with your daughter so much and filling her life with lessons about the Lord. If she is sent to school, there will be peer influence, which, more often than not, even in a Christian school, is bad instead of good. God bless ♥

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