Are mothers teaching their daughters how to keep a home? It is important for girls to start learning how to cook and clean at a young age. Maria, now the mother of two grown sons, learned how to run a home since she was nine years old. I watched an episode of the show Master Junior Chef and there were girls as young as eight who knew how to cook. They were cooking for their families. They could prepare dishes that you would find in an up-scale restaurant.
One of my biggest regrets is not learning how to cook when I was young. My mother didn’t teach me and I never expressed an interest in learning. If I had wanted to learn how to be a wife then I could have asked our maid to teach me. Instead I was content to read romance novels, draw and hang out with my friends.
Today, I am still learning how to cook and keep a home. It’s not easy. The older we get the harder it is to change our ways and mindset. Thankfully my husband cooks but it would be nice if he didn’t have to.
I sometimes wish that I were Caroline Ingalls who was a good wife to Charles and mother to her children. She was always working hard to keep their little house in Walnut Grove clean and she cooked and baked. She taught her girls how to cook as well.
Mothers, take the time to show your daughters how to take care of themselves and the families they are going to have one day. Men want women who can cook and take care of the home. When my husband mentioned to Dr. Long, his dentist that he was cooking, Dr. Brown asked if his wife doesn’t cook, he was shocked and he asked him, “So why did you marry her?”
In Dr. Long’s house, the wife does all of the cooking. It is clear that this was one of the reasons why he married her. When a man works hard to take care of his family, he wants to know that when he goes home, his wife has prepared a nice, hot meal for him to enjoy. And if the woman is working, she would prepare an easy meal or prepare meals that would last for a couple of nights so that she doesn’t have to cook every night.
It’s not easy to juggle work, family and a home but it is not impossible either. Women can accomplish a lot once they put their minds to it and when they have been taught from an early age how to fulfill their roles as wives and mothers, they will have no problems keeping a happy home.
Marriage is a partnership. The husband is there to make sure the household runs smoothly and effectively and the wife is there to help him. She is his right hand person. Together they make sure that life at home is beneficial for everyone.
Notes to Women 