tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post711144983598688527..comments2023-10-08T05:00:23.559-04:00Comments on Clarissa's Blog: Who Works More: Student ResponsesClarissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-13303164752286880612010-02-22T20:37:51.476-05:002010-02-22T20:37:51.476-05:00That's why I'm here, NancyP. To learn new ...That's why I'm here, NancyP. To learn new things. :-) I don't know whether my students are learning anything, but I definitely am. :-)<br /><br />I think you are right about the church influence.Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-11705516521206727722010-02-22T19:56:49.597-05:002010-02-22T19:56:49.597-05:00No, they get it from church - where it is preached...No, they get it from church - where it is preached that men are intended to be the breadwinners and women are intended to bear children as often as possible, and then home school them. <br /><br />It amuses me to see how naive Easterners are about the beliefs of exurban and rural Midwesterners.NancyPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-36070695817723687922010-02-22T12:11:38.487-05:002010-02-22T12:11:38.487-05:00You know, we'd been covering the topic 'Th...You know, we'd been covering the topic 'The Family' with these students right before that, and we talked a lot about their families. (For those who are sitting there, eagerly waiting to accuse me of being inappropriate with my students, that's how we learn languages. By talking. So just suck it up and go troll somebody else).<br /><br />So to continue, most of the students said their mother works. I can only remember one whose mother never worked and one whose mother doesn't work because she is retired. But that was it. So it must be the television where they are getting this.Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-13942445919400027172010-02-22T08:30:29.636-05:002010-02-22T08:30:29.636-05:00"earning", not "warning", of c..."earning", not "warning", of course...Vnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-32218852490363003442010-02-22T08:29:31.959-05:002010-02-22T08:29:31.959-05:00I would suspect that in your area the kids who are...I would suspect that in your area the kids who are well off enough to go to university may have a housewife mother with quite high probability.<br />That was one of my biggest surprises about the US - how many women are housewives. The family can be not rich at all. The husband could work two jobs... It is not about warning enough (for whom?) or not, it is about their value system.Vnoreply@blogger.com