I was just reading this post where a kollel type whines that some are asked to leave kollel to go get a job. He feels kollel families are of a higher caliber and should be exempt from paying tuition for their children's schooling.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could all just sit around and do whatever we want and not have to worry about working!
If they tell stay-at-home moms they have to leave in order to work, then why shouldn’t fathers have to work? Having a mother at home with young children is surely better than the local Mexican lady watching the kids, don’t you think?
I always find it amusing that people who are SOOOOOOOO worried about their milk being tainted with pig’s milk by anti-semites that they keep cholav yis, yet they leave their children and kitchens unwatched and in the care of antisemitic babysitters.
Why can’t the men get a job like receptionist that would afford them significant down time where they can learn at their desks? I know, yes, there is a stereotype that this is woman’s work. Maybe we need to get over those stereotypes already.
Related posts:
http://www.michaltastik.com/2009/05/in-goyish-world-children-are-future.html
and
http://www.michaltastik.com/2009/04/controversy-ahead-who-should-work-in.html
>I always find it amusing that people who are SOOOOOOOO worried about their milk being tainted with pig’s milk by anti-semites that they keep cholav yis, yet they leave their children and kitchens unwatched and in the care of antisemitic babysitters.<
ReplyDeleteWhat mkes you say they're AS?
I had one tell me that she hates Jews. I said, "but, you work for Jews?" She said, "yes, and I hate Jews." This woman works for a cholav yis household. I doubt this is the only scenario like this. I've also had babysitters tell me they think the kids today need to be smacked around more.
ReplyDeleteI love this guy's worldview. In his opinion, the world is made up of
ReplyDelete1) kollelniks (who are of a higher caliber")
2) rich people (who pay for the kollelnik's needs)
and that's it.
Every other kind of human beings is irrelevant...
Gioret
I suppose that the goyishe babysitters is a Litvish thing, as I don't know anyone where I live who uses them.
ReplyDeleteI went to one such yeshiva/kollel in Eretz Yisroel, and the pressure to fall off of the education/working truck was so strong that I simply left the yeshiva without telling anyone that I wasn't coming back. I just said suddenly, "I'm leaving today to visit my parents in America," and never went back.
They hire Russian immigrants, right?
ReplyDeleteIt's best for young children to have a stay-at-home mother. That's not to say that the mother couldn't work from home, but she should be available for her young children. I once caught a non-Jewish babysitter performing an indecent act in front of the children she was supervising. I don't understand how our most precious assets, our children, are not a greater priority.
ReplyDeleteNo, they do not hire Russian anything. They use regular frum women, some of whom are a bit older, others have larger spaces to watch many children. Either way, babysitters and other day care providers for my friends' kids are all other heimishe women.
ReplyDeleteSo, they hire grannies....
ReplyDelete>I had one tell me that she hates Jews. I said, "but, you work for Jews?" She said, "yes, and I hate Jews." <
ReplyDeleteThere's quite a jump from that stating that many are A.S...
Ok, but, another said she thinks kids should get smacked around more, yet another babysiter left a child in a stroller in the house. No, I wasn't in the house, I know because she was the one who let me in and when I was outside and she walked up without the baby I asked where the baby was. "upstairs reading..." Yeah, not even two but, she's reading... uh, huh! What I've seen scares the lightning out of me. Furthermore, the nannies all tell me about the other nannies taking kids out with no shoes or not watching them in the park.....
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