You are a sweet, loving daughter, Jamey. And you're right. Both your folks deserve medals, not for just the loving way they raised their family but also for how they choose to the live their lives, trying their best to make the world a better place for everyone. Have never known a more admirable couple.
"Courageously, Wink stayed home when the kids were little. As soon as the four could be trusted not to burn down the house or sponsor an illicit beer blast if left alone for a few hours, she started service as a social worker.
"On a flow chart of family duties, I think we’re about even."
I'd say your flow chart needs reconsideration, Fred. Wink is standing on the Bruning Family podium with all the medals.
Enlightening article once again Fred. I thought Trad Wives was a misspelling, referring to wife swapping back in the day! lol Thanks to you I can keep up with the latest trends. Your articles never cease to to give lol moments and brighten my day!
Maybe the Trump administration's pronatalism plan is just satire? Like the John Prine lyric, "Who's gonna take your garbage out when I pack up and go?" ("You're going to miss me. And my Hefty bag.") No, I expect the pronatalism deal is as serious as all the other criminal and cruelty intentions of Trump and his lickspittles. Another Prine lyric comes to mind: "Some humans ain't human; some people ain't kind."
Well that sure was a fun read. I just wonder where a Roman Catholic couple in Queens, NY, who cranked out seven boys in 10 years back in the earl-y-1950's to early-1960's fits in all this.
I gotta keep up better. I heard about the "pronatalism" thing, but not the "tradwife" thing. My tradwife just retired after a lifetime working as a registered nurse, and pssing the kids back and forth when I was a young journalist working nights and she managed the house in the early evening, and I did it during the days. This is when we shared a single car back and forth because we could only afford one, and where she managed to come up with dinner, whether homemade or takeout for the three boys, and I ate leftovers. This is more the "traditional" American homelife these days, I suspect, than the "Father KNows Best" era of the 1950s. Traditions change year-by-year, generation-by-generation, don't they?
Don't I get credit for cleaning the bathroom sink trap?
Sue -- Wife swapping! So...1955! Although, might be a good followup on the "trad" movement. What's "traditional," anyway?
The question, Ed, is where do the children fit? No matter the answer, we love ya.
Prine for Secretary of Sanity.
Can't keep up, Reg. Still consider the telephone social media. Boy, are we old. Cheers and thanks/fb
Glad to have been part of the herd.
Margaret Attwood would be amazed.
All new terms for me, Dad. You and mom both deserve awards!
Mom's the champ. I'm runner up.
You are a sweet, loving daughter, Jamey. And you're right. Both your folks deserve medals, not for just the loving way they raised their family but also for how they choose to the live their lives, trying their best to make the world a better place for everyone. Have never known a more admirable couple.
Thank you, Gwen. All 4 of us are very lucky to have the parents we do. And I am grateful they have such long-lasting friendships with people like you!
I knew I couldn’t be a tradwife when I wore high heels. Once. Also, the ‘60s. Also, herding reporters is a bit like raising kids anyway.
You didn’t mention the other Musk campaign: paid wives. His modus operandi seems to be: impregnate, compensate, move on.
"Courageously, Wink stayed home when the kids were little. As soon as the four could be trusted not to burn down the house or sponsor an illicit beer blast if left alone for a few hours, she started service as a social worker.
"On a flow chart of family duties, I think we’re about even."
I'd say your flow chart needs reconsideration, Fred. Wink is standing on the Bruning Family podium with all the medals.
Enlightening article once again Fred. I thought Trad Wives was a misspelling, referring to wife swapping back in the day! lol Thanks to you I can keep up with the latest trends. Your articles never cease to to give lol moments and brighten my day!
Maybe the Trump administration's pronatalism plan is just satire? Like the John Prine lyric, "Who's gonna take your garbage out when I pack up and go?" ("You're going to miss me. And my Hefty bag.") No, I expect the pronatalism deal is as serious as all the other criminal and cruelty intentions of Trump and his lickspittles. Another Prine lyric comes to mind: "Some humans ain't human; some people ain't kind."
Well that sure was a fun read. I just wonder where a Roman Catholic couple in Queens, NY, who cranked out seven boys in 10 years back in the earl-y-1950's to early-1960's fits in all this.
I gotta keep up better. I heard about the "pronatalism" thing, but not the "tradwife" thing. My tradwife just retired after a lifetime working as a registered nurse, and pssing the kids back and forth when I was a young journalist working nights and she managed the house in the early evening, and I did it during the days. This is when we shared a single car back and forth because we could only afford one, and where she managed to come up with dinner, whether homemade or takeout for the three boys, and I ate leftovers. This is more the "traditional" American homelife these days, I suspect, than the "Father KNows Best" era of the 1950s. Traditions change year-by-year, generation-by-generation, don't they?