A Housewifes Manual to Personal and Interpersonal Development
Being a “pure housewife” is no longer the overwhelmed, needy little lady of thirty years ago. Nowadays’s frantic, two-income; the kids-have-to-go-to-kindergarten household precludes being a “pure housewife.” It is a extravagance not numerous women are able to accomplish. It means your spouse is making enough that you no longer have to join the rat race, and you are now free to take care of the home and the kids, if any. It is the perfected time for numerous serious individual and interpersonal development. The figure of the housewife as one cut-off from contact with the outer world is a thing of the past. With cable television, DVD, the Internet and DSL, a stay-at-home mom can be all things at the same time, yet discover time for the family. Here is a conventional day a housewife as it can be nowadays.
Retain fit. Close to the kids gone, you are able to switch on your exercise program and burn off a little calories while looking for the washing machine to stop the cycle. With the garments in the dryer, you are able to munch on various fruit or raw vegetables during you read your email. Folding is finished in a thrice during you look at the current reality show on cable tv. Telecommute. With clothes folded, you download the files you will need for the transcription job you do on the side while you vacuum the floor. An incoming e-mail lets you know that the headphones you ordered is on its way. Another e-mail gives you your blogging assignments for the week, and you note it on your scheduler, squeezing it in between lunch and picking up the kids from soccer practice.
Take up a hobby. The doorbell rings as you finish cleaning the bathroom and the courier hands you the pattern for the cross-stitching you are doing for an online store, which specializes in personalized cross-stitching. It will take you maybe two weeks of waiting for dinner to finish cooking and watching TV with your husband after dinner to finish the project. In the meantime, the stuff you had posted on eBay has been getting hits and the bidding will end soon. That is one way to get rid of the clutter.
Make friends. Your Skype and YM are both rumble but you put them on hold until you tick off the goods you are going to require to get from the grocery. You send off e-mail to your sister in Australia informing her that the family reunion is going on as scheduled and to email you back pictures of the kids so they could be included in the electronic album you are making and burning into disks as a giveaway. Someone from Japan wants you to add her to your contacts, and you think this is a good time to find out more about Japan and you add her, together with contacts in Germany, India and North Korea. The English can be a little funny at times but at least you are starting to learn a few words in German. An old high school friend comes online and wants to chat. You stay online for half an hour, declining to use the video camera because you have face cream on. You tell your chat room you need to sign out and turn away to start dinner.
Is this fantasy? Hardly. Limits are only set by the mind, and with technological innovations for instant communication and online transaction the possibilities are endless. Pretty soon, husbands will want to be househusbands. That may be a good thing. At least that will get the mowing done while he is on a conference call with his boss in Taiwan.
