Recently I discovered this website, and I've been challenged and inspired by the ideas presented. The most fascinating part was her chart contrasting then vs. now, pointing out the various social elements that have changed in the past few decades, which may cause home-making to seem less gratifying and fulfilling now. The idea of community, of a support network, the realisation that we weren't designed to keep things running smoothly indefinitely without a break, has been touched on elsewhere, but it's very clear and compelling in this presentation.
Even though I grew up in the country, in the sort of environment where you didn't lock your doors at night, I can not picture a community where the children play in the street and the moms rely on each other to keep tabs on them. (Was it really like that in the Fifties? Then no wonder Donna Reed could manage to get a five-course dinner on the table while wearing high heels every day!)
Anyway, no time to mull further, but it's been a source of ponderation for me these last few weeks.
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Although it's limited to only those neighbors I know well, I actually can turn my kids out to play in someone else's yard and assume others have an eye on them. I do the same when I see kids outside my house. It's a quiet, closed neighborhood with a suggestion of the community that the 50s claims to have enjoyed. (It's not the same -- there are still neighbors I've never spoken to. But it's more than a lot of people have.)
-- SJ
This is an interesting site. Sort of irritating in its CEO and business-consultant style, but lots of good advice.
-- SJ
Thanks for posting the site. I still need to read more (no time) but you definitely touched on a subject that I find interesting. I love my life in the macro but there are those moments in the micro where I have to pull myself out of the moment and think of the big picture. I hate that housework IMMEDIATELY needs to be done after it is completed. I miss the sense of accomplishment in completing a task. Why do I blog? A post is up and I have accomplished something that won't need to be redone in two minutes.
I could say a lot more about the lack of community but I have to go clean....Ugh.
Interesting ... I'll plan to read more on this site later. Looks like it's thought-provoking at least. :)
I grew up on military bases in the not too distant 70's and I remember having full reign to go pretty much anywhere on base starting at age 6ish. Okay, so I also had to go with siblings but the freedom is not what it is today. sad to have lost that but also nicer to have closer connect with my kids. always trade-offs :)
geni
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