I don't think it's typical at all. I think tradlifers are a minority and the vast majority of women have purpose & identity separate from their children. When they don't, I think it would be very hard not for this to be harmful.
-
-
-
Tweet unavailable
-
Then they're not seeing their kids as a full-time job and their raison d'etre which is what I was criticising. They have other things in their lives and let their kids have other things in their lives.
-
Tweet unavailable
-
There are acceptable forms. They;'re allowed to enjoy cooking and needlework and going to church social events & things. Its having jobs & intellectual interests/professional pursuits that are forbidden. The bloke I was talking to was objecting to women being politically active.
-
Tweet unavailable
-
We can survive being told either. Most people fall in the middle. Women shouldn't expect to be able to stay home but if their partner is happy to be sole breadwinner & they can still have own interests and own identity, this is not a problem.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Oh yeah? You sure as hell can. And of course we all did. For a kid, having a stay-at-home mom is a great way to grow up. Especially when the other kids do too, so that the neighborhood is a living community instead of a dead space that only comes to semi-life at 6:00pm.
-
This thread is hilarious. It assumes that a stay at home mom doesn't work harder than a M that goes to an office & works in front of a computer. My mother was chasing 5 kids around playing, training, teaching, cooking & checking homework. Tx mom
-
It doesn't assume anything of the kind. Doesn't even talk about relative degrees of work. More about whether it's satisfying and whether women need intellectual interests/professional goals too.
-
Good, because stay at home mom's need a lot of encouragement in today's climate. With negative population growth in some countries outside immigration some cultures may go extinct. My mom was a Jack of all trades, Master of all. :). And an avid reader!
-
No, they don't. Just let people do what's best for them.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Strange relationship to a mother if one feels it is a burden, actually, strange that a mother would make their kids feel like that. Is it common?
-
I think most mothers do have lives outside the home too so no. But the tradlifers who argue that women need to make children their sole focus worry me coz it's not healthy & women who do this likely to end up lonely and with neurotic children.
-
Agreed
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
LOL - I never moved out of the family home for various reasons and consequently experienced that into my 40s
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.