Sep 23, 2026 · 4 min listen · Last updated September 23, 2026
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Banana not sliced right? Cheese the wrong shape? Cup a terrible color?
The School for Housewives brings you short, practical, and thoughtful messages to inspire you to shake off feminism and make your home. If you’re new here, go to the homepage for the previous Lessons; the categories are arranged in the menu bar at the top. Of course it’s a source of some amusement (and compassion, if you’re not a monster) to observe a toddler melting down over a sandwich cut the wrong way (but also the exact way he requested) or some such desperate situation. Poor inconsolable baby, poor trapped mama. You can try making it right.
The School for Housewives brings you short, practical, and thoughtful messages to inspire you to shake off feminism and make your home. If you’re new here, go to the homepage for the previous Lessons; the categories are arranged in the menu bar at the top. (To anyone wishing to listen later — note the download button — down arrow — on the audio bar above!) The spirited housewife isn’t afraid of asking what makes others happy! She doesn’t regard being at home as a negative.
«They have a word for it: Tradwife. And as with all such epithets and consistent with the feminist cult mentality, its use shuts down thought. Meekly, we retreat, forgetting to inquire about what we are offered in its place. «I say it’s normal and good to depict in a loving way what the heart seeks — if the prize is fitting with our nature, created by God, and fitting with what our ultimate end really is.» Read the whole post — and be sure to subscribe and share!
Since I’m still on a bit of a break, I’ll share a post from my blog that I wrote some time ago about how I keep the hordes fed when we’re busy getting ready for Easter but also going to the Triduum services and thus, not home to cook. What with lots of wedding sewing, gardening, and general necessary housekeeping [EDITED TO ADD: and right now, being away for a bit], I don’t quite have it in me to give you the true, thorough Holy Week rundown. It’s kind of like the Thanksgiving prep (with way more holiness thrown in I’ll grant you) so I don’t feel too bad, since I did go on and on about that.
As it’s Holy Week and I’m just as busy as you are, I did a post on my blog, Like Mother, Like Daughter. Usually I post there on Saturdays, but I was in Texas last Saturday, and this coming Saturday I won’t do a post. So I just put up a quick mid-week one with a couple of recipes for Easter I think you will enjoy! I hope you’ll pop over to say hi! Getting Ready for Easter, Like Mother, Like Daughter Style! The School for Housewives brings you short, practical, and thoughtful messages to inspire you to shake off feminism and make your home.
The School for Housewives brings you short, practical, and thoughtful messages to inspire you to shake off feminism and make your home. If you’re new here, go to the homepage for the previous Lessons; the categories are arranged in the menu bar at the top. We are having a quiet-ish day getting ready for each of these days of the Paschal Triduum, including singing tonight and for the Vigil in the church schola, which we love to do. Chant and polyphony abounding.
The School for Housewives brings you short, practical, and thoughtful messages to inspire you to shake off feminism and make your home. If you’re new here, go to the homepage for the previous Lessons; the categories are arranged in the menu bar at the top. A short series for the housewife, about transcending mere usefulness, Part 1: Singing nursery rhymes to a child develops so many aspects of language, rhythm, and imagination.
Roughhousing and silly laughter: Beneficial, but mainly, delightful
The School for Housewives brings you short, practical, and thoughtful messages to inspire you to shake off feminism and make your home. If you’re new here, go to the homepage for the previous Lessons; the categories are arranged in the menu bar at the top. A short series for the housewife, about transcending mere usefulness, Part 2 (Part 1 is here): The experts have spoken: A period of Dad playing with the kids before bed, pushing them a bit, regulates their nervous system and makes for an easier bedtime and night’s sleep, paradoxically. It’s better, they say, than telling them to calm down.
The School for Housewives brings you short, practical, and thoughtful messages to inspire you to shake off feminism and make your home. If you’re new here, go to the homepage for the previous Lessons; the categories are arranged in the menu bar at the top. “Do not spoil the wonder with haste!” ~J.R.R. Tolkien I remember going for a walk with my toddler, my first, and realizing we didn’t have to get to anywhere in particular. We were headed for the park, I had the stroller, but he wanted to walk.
The School for Housewives brings you short, practical, and thoughtful messages to inspire you to shake off feminism and make your home. If you’re new here, go to the homepage for the previous Lessons; the categories are arranged in the menu bar at the top. Children need to learn right from wrong and good conduct. They don’t start out knowing! They need to be taught. It takes time. You have to be confident and not expect perfect results for quite a while. You’re not only teaching behavior, you’re teaching self control.