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Martha and Sarah
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posted by Millennium1000
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I can hardly believe my ears listening to the news reporters trashing Sarah and her daughter, both for being good mothers. NOW only supports professional women while trashing mother women. I think it is tyme to fight back and stand up for mothers, women with children that love and care for their own children. A mother should not be trashed for being a mother that declines to hire a surrogate professional caretaker or slave mother rather than enjoy being a first hand direct loving and caring mother.
A mother can save enough on heating expenses alone to justify loving one own children www.groups.yahoo.com/group/cornplace www.groups.yahoo.com/group/cornstoves
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RE: Got a comment? question? beef?
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posted by daekini
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Hmmm, I so often connect with your statements.
I'm a sometime SAHM who also works outside the home for about an hour three times a week teaching at a university. It's a major juggle, since I work on lectures from home and I'm literally juggling babes in slings and on hips while making powerpoint presentations....
I look forward to the day (sometime soon) when I can be totally a SAHM. Since reading your article a while back, I often find myself thinking that I'm doing a whoooole lotta things half-a$$ed when I need to be focused entirely on my babes. [sigh]
Anyway, just a thanks you for articulating my feelings so well. I hope more people will look past the title.
:) Hope things are warming up in your neck o' the woods. The cherry trees are blooming here but they got frozen last night.
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Freedom to Choose To Live and Let Live
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posted by Cornstoves
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Ladybugs984,
Correct! Amen! Absolutely correct!
Life is worth living, allowing others to live, and making informed choices.
Value system determines choice.
Income does not determine wealth nor value.
Loss of wealth or loss of value is buying, spending, overextending, loss of value, loss of life, loss of choice.
A "stay at home Mom" adds value to the family, instills integrity in the kids, teaches true value, experiences frugal faith by example. At the expense of reduced income the family teaches increased value, added worth, sacrafice yes, true life and true worth, rather than synthetic monetary gain.
Monetarily one can observe "it's not what you make but what you save" Identical words apply to value and worth. The life you save could be your own, the family members, the aged, the unborn, the youth, and the ones they influence.
Education, training, physical exercise, a long waiting period ARO and monetary contribution is required to obtain a Tennessee corn stove. The reward is annual heating cost of $200-$500, warm heat, warm home, safe, clean edible heat, clean cost effective environment, controlled relative humidity, direct local contact and friendship with a corn fuel farm. All certainly require more effort than does actuation of a remote control button, adjusting the room set point or getting a second or third job for all family members to afford the utility bill.
The option is "get multiple jobs" or "make informed choices". Which has more value? To each his own. I do not bash the masses. The masses should not trash Moms who work to live or Moms who live to work, or Moms who love to live so the little ones can have a life and the aged can enjoy the life they have left.
Lifers have a choice. The young and old are at the mercy of Lifers.
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Low Cost home heat with Whole kernel shelled corn fuel
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posted by cornstoves
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Low cost corn stoves heat homes for $100-$300 annual heating cost in Tennessee. Local grown renewable Whole kernel shelled corn fuel cost more in 1817 than 2005. Mothers, Fathers, children & families can save money heating homes with safe, clean, environmental friendly, edible, healthy shelled corn. Corn stoves are locally made in Cookeville Tennessee. www.cornstoves.info, http://webpages.charter.net/clift, www.groups.yahoo.com/group/cornstoves
Has anyone noticed whether Sierra Club members heat their own homes with local renewable green corn stoves? Does the energy bill give energy benefits to corn stove owners?
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RE: Got a comment? question? beef?
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posted by Angelica
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Kristy,
I'm sorry my article upset you. It is not a discussion of abortion, I believe you misunderstood. But since you brought it up, I don't believe in Government legislation regarding my body or regarding anything else personal for that matter. I am not pro-abortion, nor would I ever consider having one myself. But I don't see it's my place to make a judgment call for other women on that matter. I wish more women would make more choices, true, rather than just following peer pressure, but that is all my article meant, not that I was for more women having abortions.
Hope that cleared things up some.
Angelica
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RE: Got a comment? question? beef?
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posted by Kristy
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Dear Angelica:
Pro choice is just a definition of pro abortion. Killing a baby inside you so that you can make your carrier is just utterly selfish and monstrous. How can you justify that especially if you know how it feels to carry a baby inside you? When do you think a child becomes human??
I think killing an innocent baby is nothing to be proud about.
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RE: Got a comment? question? beef?
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posted by Angelica
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Samantha,
Congratulations for having enough self confidence to make your choice. Perhaps after Women's Liberation, it's being seen as 'a waste' for an intelligent young woman not to take advantage of the zillions of opportunities nowadays. However, the whole point of the Feminist movement was that women should be free to choose their path in life without having to endure roadblocks because what they wanted to do wasn't the 'norm' of what women were doing at the moment. Now things have turned completely around and women pursuing careers in the workforce is totally the norm, and women staying at home are seen as somehow 'missing out'...and giving up all these grand opportunities. I'm doing what I know is the best, most rewarding, and most influential job in the world, for ME, and it's certainly going against the norm for say, all the women I went to college with. But you can't really call yourself a Feminist or even pro-women's rights if you aren't willing to totally support any woman's choice (even if it is) to be traditional.
What an awesome time it is to be living right now for a woman--despite strange attitudes I get for wanting to give up my career path in the workforce to have children, I still did have that option. It feels sweeter, somehow, than it would if it had been my only choice. I love being able to take credit for knowing how sweet it is and choosing it consciously.
Angelica
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RE: Got a comment? question? beef?
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posted by Ladybugs984
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i just read your pro-choice article. What you said is so true. i got married a onth after my 18th birthday and got pregnant 2 months later. i had just graduated high school the previous summer i walked into pizza hut with my husband and saw someone i went to high school with i was about 3 months pregnant. She asked me how far along i was not at all suprized about me being pregnant and she asked me my husband was the father i said yes and she asked if i was married and i said yes and she got this smile on her face and asked me what my mother thought about that. I told her we were married before. She looked at me like i just sprouted a horn on my forehead. "YOu mean you got married right after high school?" It was no suprise to her that i was married and was pregnant but the fact that i chose to get married and chose to have a child completly took her by suprize.
I done beleive that its a woman's place to stay at home with her children. I beleive its my place. This is where i feel like i belong and where i need to be and it seems like nobody understands that anymore. Our family doesn't have a lot of money and i know that if i worked we could afford to do a lot more things like go out to eat more often and to buy all those books i LOVE to read but my family is more important to me than those things.
Its kinda sad that no one understands why someone would ever choose something like that. They can understand someone wanting to be a teacher but not that they want to raise a family of their own.
I'd like to write more but my son just woke up and i can't really think of anything to say that won't be repeating what you just wrote in that article.
-Samantha
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Got a comment? question? beef?
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posted by Angelica
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Let me know what you're thinking, and we can discuss amicably (or duke-it-out, no holds barred, whatever ;)
Angelica
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