Did you have Home Ec. in high school? I’m beginning to think that we have done/are doing a disservice to most of our kids and families by not teaching everyone Home Economics. True Home Economics: how to run the economy of the home. How to make, cook, grow, buy, contribute and build community relationships—things that make a healthy, ethical (more local) economy possible.
Did we feminists throw the baby out with the bath water by arguing that we women didn’t need to know these things? We would “work,” of course, and pay other people to tend to our basic needs. What happens when we can’t work, or choose to raise a family and work within the home economy? Well, we have to educate ourselves.
Friday, March 26, 2010
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