{"id":15085,"date":"2011-04-08T14:13:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T19:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=15085"},"modified":"2011-04-08T14:13:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T19:13:34","slug":"do-we-still-teach-homemaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/do-we-still-teach-homemaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Do we still teach homemaking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A guest post from our friend and colleague emeritus, Russell Arben Fox. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The title of this post isn&#8217;t a snark; it&#8217;s an open question, about which I am genuinely curious. (I&#8217;m also giving a presentation on this topic next week at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwha.info\/meetings\/callforpapersRSS11.asp\">Midwest Sunstone\/Restoration Studies<\/a> conference, so my ulterior motive is a fishing expedition for anecdotes from the Collected Saints of the Bloggernacle.)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Though &#8220;Homemaking&#8221; and &#8220;Enrichment&#8221; are officially terms of the past in the Relief Society today, it seems to me that those ideas&#8211;the idea that we need to develop skills and a knowledge base that will make us (I suppose I should say &#8220;women&#8221; rather than &#8220;us&#8221; if I wanted to be brutally honest, but I don&#8217;t want to bring gender roles into the question at this point) better, more responsible and capable, homemakers&#8211;continue to lurk around Relief Society, and indeed the church as whole. So my question, which is really two-fold. First, in your Relief Society (or, just to be ridiculous and throw all caution to the wind, in your elders quorum or high priest) meetings, do you frequently, or even just occasionally, learn about actual, practical, usable homemaking skills and resources? And second, if your answer is no, is it because not many skills and resources are taught that are genuinely relevant to your home existence needs, or because you&#8217;re bored by or find unhelpful the way such skills are taught, or some other reason?<\/p>\n<p>I await any thoughts you may have. And thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A guest post from our friend and colleague emeritus, Russell Arben Fox. The title of this post isn&#8217;t a snark; it&#8217;s an open question, about which I am genuinely curious. (I&#8217;m also giving a presentation on this topic next week at the Midwest Sunstone\/Restoration Studies conference, so my ulterior motive is a fishing expedition for anecdotes from the Collected Saints of the Bloggernacle.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15087,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15085\/revisions\/15087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}