rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Unorganized Family Time":
I would not want dual income families to take this the wrong way. But, so many skills used to be taught at home. The older siblings knew how to raise children. There were also babysitting opportunities in the neighborhood. With the prevalence of institutional child care, some of this is gone. Also, single parent families have halted the way that these skills have been transmitted to the next generation. Newer technologies allow the parents to encourage the children to continue to learn on their own. Formal education is important, but it is not the only way to knowledge. When family run businesses were more prevalent, children learned early many aspects of it.
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GJ - We deliberately avoided the two-income family, and our son's family did as well. There are many benefits, such as the wife being the mother of the children instead of serving as the driver to the daycare or WELS Early Learning Center (daycare business).
Many times young children are split between baby-sitting services. How is that good for them - or the parents?
Home-cooked meals are bought from Boston Market (eee - awful).
Luxuries are often over-rated. They have little value on the resale market, which is how their price should be judged. A better investment is in children - giving them priceless time while they are growing up. I have seen parents spend all their early years making money and their later years dealing with serious problems in their spoiled, neglected, unsupervised children.
A wife who helps her husband in many ways will free him to do a better job in his profession.
Mrs. I did some part-time teaching, but she had time to take LI to computer coding classes and other special events. Besides, I always went on youth trips.
We had so many interesting times, making cookies as a family, baking bread from scratch, going to Shipshewana for the auction and flea market. This year we will enjoy the film that we enjoyed as a book. I read The Hobbit to LI five times. We listened to the Gordon Lightfoot records endlessly, sang the songs, and made up parodies to the songs.
The Aspen is rusted,
The tail-lights are busted.
Radiators leaking, the bench seats are squeaking.
The Bondo is cracking,
The bumpers need spackling.
Oh no.
In fact, I used to turn off the ignition to Aspen in the driveway and count the seconds it continued to diesel, until it finally gave up with a loud rattle, whoosh, and cloud of smoke. We laughed, doubled over.
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bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "On Single Wage Earners and the Benefits. Bruce Chu...":
I don't want to post the dismal statistics on single parenting and the results in the next generation, which everyone knows already, but I do want to make two observations: first, I know that when a family has two parents working full-time, that the daughters and sons are never taught to cook much at all, except for grilling and macaroni and cheese. So the next generations subsist on unhealthy processed foods and fast food, which pretty much explains the obesity epidemic, and heart and diabetes epidemics. A wife who can't or won't cook isn't valued quite as much by husbands and children, I think, and it costs the family more money on food, so that all contributes to family breakups.
The other observation is that many men don't want to get married, and women, too, for that matter, so it is ironic that gays are so gung-ho for marriage. Perhaps gays just want to be contrarian? Of course, gays like the modern marriage concept, but want nothing to do with the traditional concept of marriage where divorce was hard to get. So all they are getting is a devalued form of marriage, sort of like how everyone becomes millionaires after a currency is severely devalued. In other words, so what!
