Ceres
06-03-2010, 07:34 AM
http://togetherparenting.blogspot.com/2010/02/beginning-of-something.html
Thanks to Mummy2Boys for sending me this link. I love this idea!
There's more to read at the link.
On Thursday I have invited two new friends to come over to cook with me. We will meet at my house, each bringing along the ingredients for one meal. We have set an amount of $30 to each spend. We will work together to cook up the meals and to look after the children. At the end of the day we will divide up the meals for our freezers. It is a small start but I have grand plans for where this would end up.
My idea requires groups of women to step across some social boundaries in order to create relationships that bring them out of isolation. Ideally groups of three to four women will come together in what I can only liken to the way men 'shout' rounds at the pub. The women will invest a great deal of time, but this isn't a problem, it is the solution. The amount of time women spend at home in isolation is the problem. So I propose that women come together for several days each fortnight, gathering together at each house in turn. The women will come together to cook, clean, garden, mind children, talk and relax. These women needed to be suited to each other, prepared to develop friendships with each other and willing to support each other.
Thanks to Mummy2Boys for sending me this link. I love this idea!
There's more to read at the link.
On Thursday I have invited two new friends to come over to cook with me. We will meet at my house, each bringing along the ingredients for one meal. We have set an amount of $30 to each spend. We will work together to cook up the meals and to look after the children. At the end of the day we will divide up the meals for our freezers. It is a small start but I have grand plans for where this would end up.
My idea requires groups of women to step across some social boundaries in order to create relationships that bring them out of isolation. Ideally groups of three to four women will come together in what I can only liken to the way men 'shout' rounds at the pub. The women will invest a great deal of time, but this isn't a problem, it is the solution. The amount of time women spend at home in isolation is the problem. So I propose that women come together for several days each fortnight, gathering together at each house in turn. The women will come together to cook, clean, garden, mind children, talk and relax. These women needed to be suited to each other, prepared to develop friendships with each other and willing to support each other.