22 ways to raise a home-wrecker

Courtesy of Kathy at Teaching Good Things who was doing a courtesy post at Raising Homemakers.  I encourage you to check out her site - she's got some good, old fashioned common sense mothering tidbits and advice.

Surefire ways to equip your daughter to be a future home-wrecker:

• Do everything for her so she can enjoy being a kid.

• Don’t require any real responsibility from her even if she is capable.

• Be sure she knows that academics are her highest priority and that practical homemaking skills are menial and for the lower class folks.

• Indulge her every whim without requiring any investment from her.

• Shield her from disappointment and hardships.

• Give her her own room, her own space complete with ways to tune out the family, such as unlimited ipads, iphone, texting, computers…

• Don’t allow her to earn or manage any money, just make sure she has plenty of it.

• Never put her in situations where she has to get creative and resourceful, just give her what she wants…so she can have a happy childhood.

• Do not correct her lack of character, because you may hurt her feelings…and she may not like you. Just let her be free to be herself.

• Don’t ever require her to do acts of service for other people, unless she is getting extra credit for a school subject or club of course, because she may need that for a scholarship.

• Push her to establish a career because she should never depend on a man for anything.

• Be sure she chooses friends that are shallow and enjoy wasting time like she does.

• Encourage her to focus on her outer beauty, keep her nails done and keep her clothed in the latest fashions, because that is very important to her self-esteem.

• Let her believe her beauty and charm will keep a husband happy once she has snagged him.

• Allow her to talk about her friends (gossip), better yet, you be sure to tear down your family and friends in front of her so she knows how to do it right.

• As a parent you need to make sure your world revolves around her so that she will be sure to grow up and insist her husband’s world will also revolve around her and cave to her every whim.

• Teach her to have a critical spirit, of everything and everyone.

• Complain! Complain a lot so she will be a pro by the time she has her own home.

• Nag your husband so she will never give her husband a moments peace.

• Second guess and disrespect your husband, but be sure to justify it so it seems ‘righteous’, this is key to being a home-wrecker and sabotaging a marriage!

• Allow your daughter to always have an opinion on everything, and to ALWAYS have the last word!

• And this one is so VERY IMPORTANT- Teach her not to be content at home. Make sure that you have somewhere to go every day. It may be lessons, clubs, teams, shopping; anything that will keep her away from home.

 The wisest of women builds her house,

but folly with her own hands tears it down.

Proverbs 14:1

We are told to train up children in the way they should go. Our goal is to train up wise women and it starts in their youth! They can enjoy their childhood and at the same time be learning how to set aside foolishness.

 EDIT AND CLARIFICATION:

This post was SATIRE, perhaps I should have stated that first.

It is a post that was directed at the heart of homemaking. As mothers are we fostering a heart of homemaking, giving our daughters what they need, not only in skill but a matter of priorities?

THIS IS NOT AN ANTI-EDUCATION POST! Education IS important, and I wholeheartedly believe that women should be contributing to the household financially, whether it be through income or stewardship. Although I do believe that this is done best from home and is keeping with Titus 2:5.

I’ve been a wife and mother long enough to know that most mothers do not train up their daughters in the way they should go. If your mother did great! If God gave you eyes to see in the midst of worldly teaching, great! But most are struggling and fostering selfish lifestyles in their daughters.

I used the “home-wrecker” term as SATIRE because it is a woman who does not have her heart at home that will destroy her own home…tear it down with her own hands, as Proverbs 14 says.

We live in a culture that is selfish and materialistic, a culture that does everything it can to destroy families and homes. If you want a lifelong marriage and a peaceful home then you have to be deliberate about it, it doesn’t just happen!