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Anyone else NOT preparing daughters for college?
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My girls are only 3 and 4 so I can’t add from experience, but I am so excited to hear about this. I have been having these feelings lately and I know some of my more worldly friends think I’m foolish and old fashioned. I would consider it a true blessing for my daughters to grow up loving the Lord, being wives, true helpmeets to their husbands, homemakers, and mothers…
This may sound funny but I agree with everyone
! I still have young children, two of whom are girls and I would love nothing more than for them to enter into marriage being capable and content to be homemakers. I am a homemaker and I always knew that this was what I wanted to do. I “trained and planned ” for this in my teenage years and am now living my calling. I do believe my calling extends to more than the home and family though, and I feel not so prepared for this part of my life now. I feel more and more strongly “called” to minister through my home to other hurting people, however, I am unprepared to deal with these hurting people in a helpful way. Other than praying (which is actually the best) I am pretty sure I would need skills in counceling and grief as well as hospitality. So, I do wish that I had taken some time to prepare for “the whole calling” on my life instead of just jumping in to one end of it and thinking the other would take care of itself!Also, just a scenario that has been floating around in my head for years now. What would I do if something happened to my wonderful, godly husband? A neighbor of ours has just lost her husband recently and they are still in the middle of raising their children. I don’t know what I would do in this situation.
Then there are people like my Aunt. When she was young, she prepared herself for marriage and homemaking and did not go to collage because of this. She has never been able to have children. Now, though she loves her husband, she is stuck in a job that she has come to dislike intensly but has no choice because of finances.
All that to say, I think girls should have something that they love that they are trained in to make an income, however I think it can be done very succesfully without going away to college. However, I do think it is something that should be required of them to give thought to while they are still preparing for their lives.
Does that make sense? I took way to many words to get my point across again
. Sorry!Linabean, I think it makes lots of sense. Good examples.
So glad my girls weren’t my first! I know, that probably sounds terrible toward my boys, I really don’t mean it that way! I just hadn’t found Christ or CM when my boys were little… I am so glad I answered His call and can raise my girls from the get go how I feel Him leading me. I wish I had wonderful christian women like on this board to mentor me when the boys were little. But…God knew!
! I still have young children, two of whom are girls and I would love nothing more than for them to enter into marriage being capable and content to be homemakers. I am a homemaker and I always knew that this was what I wanted to do. I “trained and planned ” for this in my teenage years and am now living my calling. I do believe my calling extends to more than the home and family though, and I feel not so prepared for this part of my life now. I feel more and more strongly “called” to minister through my home to other hurting people, however, I am unprepared to deal with these hurting people in a helpful way. Other than praying (which is actually the best) I am pretty sure I would need skills in counceling and grief as well as hospitality. So, I do wish that I had taken some time to prepare for “the whole calling” on my life instead of just jumping in to one end of it and thinking the other would take care of itself!
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