Do we need a school for women on how to be healthy, proficient and prepared housewives?

Question

I believe women are the ones that should take care of the family inside the home. These days most women don't know how to cook a healthy balanced meal for the family....and what do we get? Sick husbands and obese kids!
I have many friends with wifes that are really bad at dealing with home stuff and fixing good meals. Most of the food is premade or from a carry out. Breakfast is a Baggel, lunch is mac and cheese and dinner is chicken wings form a drive thru. No wonder they are crazy sick!
When people go to my home, guys are amazed at the way a serve my family in every way. My famiy is healthy. My kids don't get sick like other kids and my husband is in shape and healthy. Sometimes we get jokes from friends saying: "Can we switch wifes?" or "I'm going to send my wife here for a week so she can learn how to cook from yours".

Liberation of women has taken us into the streets to work outside the house but we are forgetting something....who is going to attend the family?

Answer 1

You are 100% right. Women have forgotten where they can make the most important contribution.

Answer 2

I take it you wanted angry responses from the way you worded that question? Your generalisation of your own womankind is quite alarming and I’m trying to figure out if it’s because you don’t know any better because you’re uneducated in anything except housewifery or if it’s because you’re genuinely that angry about the failing of other women or perhaps because your husband has never “allowed” you the freedom you see others have?
For instance in my household, my partner does all the cooking because he’s a very good chief. We share all the housework depending how the day goes. For instance we don’t have turns at doing the dishes, they simply get done by whoever is available to do them first and it’s the same with what I’m sure you would think to be “man chores”. For instance, I’ll do DIY, I can fix the car (to an extent – I’m not a mechanic) and I laid the flooring the living room. He usually cooks because he’s got mad skills in the kitchen but he’ll do the laundry, pick up the groceries and vacuum. No one has exclusive roles within the home and we get done things done together as a team, like a loving couple. Does that bother you or make you jealous?
And I simply have to ask where you stand on two women living together, is it ok for one of them to make a living out with the home?
Basically taking care of the home isnt a complicated job, it's just hard work so I think a school for these skills would be pointless as it depends on your own situation. You already get cooking classes and they are a great idea and open to both sexes.
I feel sorry for you that you have such a rigid role within the home.

Answer 3

If women and men are both working, then both genders are responsible for the household responsibilities (cooking, cleaning, raising the children, etc.). People take pride in different things. I, for one, take pride in my academic achievements, and even though I try to cook healthy meals when I'm with my fiance on the weekends, I don't always have the time or the ability. More responsibilities are being piled on women than ever before. I say give us a break and be thankful for what we can do with the time and energy we have.

Answer 4

I agree with you when you say that women should cater a little more to their family. But its not going to happen because this is the 21st century. Women are ambitious and are more independent than ever so we dont all rely on a man to take care of stuff for us- we take care of ourselves. I had just graduated college and 99% of my friends do not know how to cook but they are tidy. In some ways I kind of feel bad for young men because its like a rude awakening, they come from a house where mom did everything for them and now its into the real world where majority of females wont to crap for you. Men have to realize that it should be 50/50 in everything if not 100/100. Men at this day and age should know how to take care of themselves i.e cooking and cleaning so that when they run into a female who doesnt its not a surprise, you will survive. Women cant work, clean, cook, and raise kids all by themselves. A lot do sadly, but it takes a good parter to help them equally.

Answer 5

You have hit on an important problem - who IS going to attend to the family? But your proposed solution is an outdated assignment of gender roles. Wake up to the 21st century, where women and men both hold down jobs, take care of children, their homes and finances.

The poor eating habits of America is not the fault of the women's libertion movement. Responsible working women DO feed their families healthy food, whether it is cooked by mom OR dad.
The poor eating habits of Americans are caused by laziness, lack of education, lack of personal responsibility and pervasive marketing by the fast food industry.

If you are happy in your life, I congratulate you. If you would like to make a difference in the health of our society, I suggest you focus your attention on inspiring others to take responsibility for their own lives and their own happiness. Imposing your lifestlye on everyone else will only lead to resentment.

Answer 6

I used to think like you until my husband walked out and left me and my two children - for a woman who didn't cook.
Every woman should be educated and able to stand on her own two feet - believe me, a roof over your head is more important than eating a prepared meal.
I cook for my kids every day and my kids are frequently ill wiht ear infections and tonsillitis. We all do what we can to survive.
If you want women to return to school, well, men should go to the equal school. So that they can guaratee that their wives and kids are properly taken care of.

Answer 7

My mom has always made me, my brother, my sister, and my dad homemade food and i hope to do the same if i have kids. I am only 12 but i do have a lot of fredins whose moms just get them burger king everynight so i think that there should be a school for moms and dads because god forbid something happened to the mom. But i dont think it should be required it should be opitnal

Answer 8

Why should I cook when my husband does? We're better off teaching women how not to be subservient housewives. I don't think I should serve my family or that they should serve me. That's not the way love works; that's the way dominance works. We work together on the things we do, including housework.

Answer 9

this can be blaimed on the goverment. when they took home ec out of the schools. I agree. As a great mom and cook. i really have to fight to get my 17 year old to cook. And force her to do dishes and laundry. And I shouldn't have to leave 4ft signs to explain laundry. But this falls on goverment. just as taking god out of the school. Now we have more violence and crime. come on what did having god in school really hurt.

Answer 10

How about classes for ALL Adults. In this day and age it's just as important for a MAN to be able to do the things essential to the running of a day to day household as it is for a woman.