217: Are We Raising Our Daughter To Be A Career Woman Or A Housewife?
Now That We're A Family
Elisha and Katie Voetberg
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Today on the podcast we are answering a listener question: Are you raising your daughter to become a career woman or a homemaker & wife? We thought that it was an interesting question because we have seen this exact same question asked to multiple different people that we follow online and it’s been interesting to hear their responses.
One gal said specifically that she was not raising her daughter to be either and she could be whatever she wants to be. We thought if you don’t have the target in mind, then you’re going to miss it every time. We do think we should have objective goals for our daughters. Today we will be talking about how to navigate that in the 21st century when there are so many career opportunities and obviously being a wife and mother is a big blessing.
The problem is, is that something or somebody or multiples things/bodies are going to be shaping our daughter’s worldview and shaping them into something. If we’re not proactive in doing that as parents, then again, somebody is. It is of the utmost importance that we take the responsibility seriously as parents in being the prominent voice. We don’t want to be the only voice. We want to find other resources and people that can speak into our children’s lives too.
When it comes to our daughters and equipping them, we want them to grow in capabilities and tactics to be able to add value in any situation that they might find themself in. We also need to speak highly of being a wife and mother to our daughters, just like God does, because the voice against them is so loud. When you look at the narrative in the news, media, songs, all sorts of art and entertainment, education, etc, it has this strong narrative that does not promote being a Godly wife and mother. God thinks and esteems so highly of them. As parents, we need to be extremely vocal in advocating and speaking well of those things and equipping our daughters to thrive in any situation!
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| 0:00.0 | Okay so today on the podcast we are answering a listener question and that is are you raising your |
| 0:05.9 | daughter to become a career woman or a homemaker and wife? So anyways I thought that that was an |
| 0:14.1 | interesting question not only because we you know because it's interesting but because I have |
| 0:22.8 | seen this exact same question asked to multiple people that I follow online and it's been kind |
| 0:29.9 | of interesting to hear their responses. One gal said specifically she goes well I'm not raising |
| 0:37.8 | her to be either she could be whatever she wants to be and I thought well you know if you don't |
| 0:43.3 | have the target in mind then you're going to miss it every time and I do think we should have |
| 0:47.7 | objective goals for our daughters but how do you kind of navigate that in the 21st century |
| 0:55.0 | where there are all these career opportunities and obviously motherhood is a big blessing and |
| 1:01.2 | being a wife and all those things so we're going to talk about that today on the podcast |
| 1:07.5 | yeah that's it if you guys enjoy this episode we have loved seeing you share in stories which |
| 1:13.9 | episodes you guys enjoy when you take a screenshot and you share it with the people in your life |
| 1:18.8 | not only does that help grow the podcast but it also is so encouraging for us to see what you are |
| 1:24.4 | currently enjoying what's resonating with you and just it makes us feel a little bit more a part |
| 1:31.9 | of your community so thank you for being here with the now that we're a family podcast and we're |
| 1:36.8 | going to dive in the now that we're a family podcast yeah you know it's interesting you're just |
| 1:46.5 | talking to Katie about the that perspective of I'm not raising my daughter to be either one not |
| 1:52.5 | a career woman or not a house wife I'm just going to let her be whatever she wants to be and I |
| 1:57.4 | think that in pair with parenting in general that has kind of like this nice feeling on the surface |
| 2:04.1 | I'm like well they are going to be able to just through self-discovery find out who they were |
| 2:09.0 | meant to be who they were made to be and their own unique offering that they have to this world |
| 2:14.0 | the the problem is is that something or somebody or multiple peoples and multiple things are going |
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