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How
to
Have a Happy Marriage
The Homemaker's Job
A housewife
is
responsible for making many decisions
and solving problems. Let's say your family is struggling
with inflated food costs (who isn't struggling just to keep
up?). In many cases the housewife is responsible for the
food budget. In order
to
feed the family well, she checks
the sales, perhaps buying vegetables at one store, bread
at another, coffee down the street and beef somewhere
else.
But she has
to
be an efficiency expert as well. She has
to
consider the cost of gasoline to get to
all
the stores and
the time
it
takes to shop. Decisions have
to
be made.
If
she
really is an effective executive she will get the shopping done
at the best prices and get other things done too.
Then there is delegation. Not doing
it
all yourself is the
name of the game. Many a harried housewife cleans up after
the kids, makes all the beds, washes all the clothes. Somehow
she just never gets around to
delegating these jobs to the
children.
Some students
go
to col–
lege not even knowing how to
make a bed. Mom always did
it for them. Some students
literally do not know how to
operate washers and dryers.
And many do not know how
to put in an honest, full day's
work.
Not only is the mother
who does it all alone making
life much harder for herself,
she is doing her children a
God does not
look down on the
janitor, laborer, farmer
or housewife, while
favoring the doctor,
lawyer or banker.
great injustice. One of a parent's major responsibilities is to
teach his or her children how to work.
Delegate! That means teaching the children to do the
dishes, wash and iron their clothes and make their beds.
Children should learn to cook, shop, repair things and help
in every part of home life. So Mom is a teacher as well.