Sex Education

When I had my first child in 1986 I remember being given a leaflet from the hospital about how to prepare for the birth. It said that I should batch cook food so that my husband always had a home cooked meal, and that having a baby did give me the chance to take a few shortcuts with housework - only iron the collar and cuffs of your husband’s shirts if he wears a pullover. 1986!!!!! 🤣

It sounds more like the 1950s than 60s!

I distinctly remember reading an article in a women’s magazine in the early 1960s which suggested putting an alarm clock under your pillow in order to wake yourself up before your husband awoke in the mornings, The purpose was so that you should put your hair into rollers, and have a hot bath to ‘set’ it, then you would have time to lay the breakfast table (always adding a nosegay in a ‘gay’ vase) and cook a delicious breakfast. You would need to allow time to remove the rollers, brush your hair and apply a light make up before your DH sat at the table to have his breakfast served. Should he want to read the newspaper during this meal, you should not interrupt him because he would be acquainting himself with the news so that he was able to discuss it with his colleagues later.

It was the first of a series, but I didn’t read more. However a work colleague of mine of mine read the same article and said that she followed the advice of the series faithfully!

henetha

Gosh 😳
I thought this thread was going to be about a very funny TV series called Sex Education.

Yes, me too! 😁

Gosh 😳
I thought this thread was going to be about a very funny TV series called Sex Education.

It is not a spoof and is from the 60s, if you google the passage it is quoted many times going back many years.

Hands up anyone who managed to sleep in rollers?

I’d have been quite happy to take off his shoes if I hadn’t been laughing so much when I noticed he’d gone to work with one brown shoe and one black one!!

Oh no. If only I had known this practical information. I must go and apologise to DH at once. I wonder if it's all too late?

I did laugh at the OP.
My Grandmother did the Let him sit down, make him a drink and serve dinner ASAP routine, but that wasn’t in the 60’s. My FIL came in from work and helped cook the dinner.
I don’t know about either bedroom routine.

I don't think rollers were invented in the early 1900s! So it must be 1960s and could be a spoof as SueDonim says.

We weren't taught anything like that 😂

Should your husband suggest Congress then agree humbly
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offer to take off his shoes.
I was shocked to find that husbands didn't clean their wife's shoes!

crazyH

Now I know where I went wrong 😂

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...offer to take off his shoes.

My Mum had a friend who always got down on the floor and took her husband's shoes off every day when he came home from work... 😳

This is exactly how I behave within my marriage (NOT)

This extract is on a BBC website, it was from a Home Economics text book from the 60s.

Here is another extract:
Don't complain if he's late home for dinner, or even stays out all night. Count this as minor compared to what he might have gone through that day. Make him comfortable. Have him lean back in a comfortable chair or have him lie down in the bedroom. Have a cool or warm drink ready for him. Arrange the pillow and offer to take off his shoes.

I don't think many women in the 60s followed the suggestions of the book.

Now I know where I went wrong 😂

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Like the others have said it sounds pre 60s, but my goodness it made me laugh, thank you 🤣🤣🤣

Thank goodness women decided not to stand for that nonsense

I was at school in the early 1960s and we didn't have any sex education at all, let alone a book.

The writing style suggests more likely pre-war.

Congress! 😳

Surely that was written as a spoof?

It can’t be real, unless it was a reprint from maybe the 1900s.

I particularly like “Adjust your clothing”.

In my world, my husband brought me the tea!

Crikey!