Comments on: Isn’t Being Quite Grown Up Exciting?

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:20:35 +0000

my copy is on its way too!!

Thanks for the suggestion Dr. Julie – I look forward to following along as well.

Ann

By: Dr. Julie-Ann

Dr. Julie-Ann — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:07:51 +0000

Oh, Mrs. Shortcake! I bet you’d kick yourself (if it didn’t throw you completely off balance with that bundle of joy growing inside you)!

By: mrs shortcake

mrs shortcake — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:49:05 +0000

I look forward to following along! I used to have a couple of old home-ec primers, but got rid of them a long time ago. I wish I had them now that I’m a new wife and mother-to-be!

By: Kathy Warnock

Kathy Warnock — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:00:29 +0000

Though my interests and talents run to the domestic, I never took home ec in high school. In the first place, my academic schedule was full, and in the second place, my mother was teaching me to cook and sew as well as other “feminine arts.” Even so, my mother had taken home-ec in high school (1920s), and she felt my domestic training was lacking certain fundamentals because I didn’t take home-ec. I look forward to this opportunity to work through a home-ec textbook. My copy of the “omnibus” was shipped this morning.

I think you make a good point that the woman of the ’50s might well have studied with that textbook. At any rate, the generations overlap and one generation influences another. Because this is true, we can hardly go wrong in our study of the retro woman — her skills and philosophies.

Thanks for this assignment. I look forward to it.