Vox Day has
written quite a bit on his Substack in recent times about how women like to
sabotage other women they are in competition with. He gave examples of how women will judge each other when
one of their friends is losing weight, through to women encouraging their
pretty friends to cut their hair short, or change their look in some other negative
way, and other similarly bad advice. His Sigma Game Substack is pretty insightful and many of
my readers would already be aware of it, if not check it out on Substack.
This article,
to me, is another clear example of women seeking to sabotage other women, dressed
up as educational concerns,
“‘Wag
day’: Teachers slam mum over four-day school week
Teachers
have hit back at an influencer who said she wants to ditch the traditional
five-day school week and give her daughter a “wag day a week”.
A
mum-of-three has sparked a heated debate on social media after revealing she
wants to take her daughter out of school one day a week.
Montana’s
five-year-old daughter has just started school in a coastal town along
Victoria’s Great Ocean Road, and instead of going along with the traditional
five-day schooling routine, the influencer is examining the merits of “one wag
day a week”.
“Our
school where we’re at, for the first four weeks they have one day off on a
Wednesday and I kind of want to keep that a thing,” she explained in a video.
“I
love our Wednesdays, I love not rushing anywhere, I love the extra time I get
to spend with my daughter. Her being gone so long every single day at school
five days a week for the rest of her life, it just feels, I don’t know, so
uncomfortable to me, so unnatural.”…
…The
statement sparked a fair bit of criticism with one person calling it “arrogant
and selfish”, while others said “you’re just having a hard time letting go of
your daughter” and “that’s what the weekends are for”. Many others sympathised
with the idea, noting that five days is a lot for small children.
Partial
school attendance can be problematic for students for both academic and social
reasons, according to education professionals.”[1]
What kind of
nutjob calls these women “arrogant and selfish” for wanting to have more time
with their kids in the home? The kind of women who have bought into the now
decades long propaganda that the government or private schools should raise
their kids, and they have sunken so much investment into that system, that they
feel judged by anyone who wants to do things otherwise.
These comments
are especially revealing,
“The
idea is wonderful but the way schools are set up don’t make this very
successful unfortunately,” another teacher commented below the post.
A
third teacher wrote, “The main issue is she will start to miss out on a lot of
social interactions and get left behind. I see it all the time with children
that take one or more days off a week — they start to get left behind
socially.”[2]
Kids benefit
greatly from time spent with their parents, especially their mums in their
younger years. The idea that a child spending more time with her mum is going
backwards socially is so nonsensical that one must have believed a lot of pre-taught
propaganda to even countenance such a thought. In the Scriptures “youth” and “fool”
are often synonyms, especially in the Proverbs. Children are often socially
disadvantaged precisely because they spend most of their time with other people
at their own level, rather than intense periods of time with those far ahead of
them which they can learn from.
These
comments from mothers who have already started to keep their kids home more are
really encouraging though,
“I
did this growing up and I’m so thankful my parents did!” another wrote. “My
[day] off was my creative day.”
A
mother who has a partially enrolled child shared, “I actually am not
understanding why people are [losing] their minds over this … one day a week
[at] home is what me and a friend did last year.”[3]
But the best
part of the article is what the mother whom the article is based around says in
response to her critics,
“In
response to criticism sparked by her video, Montana asked her followers to
remember that she is “a mother craving a slower pace, more time with her
babies, one who won’t give in to what society deems ‘acceptable’ or ‘normal’”.
“And
if that makes [you] uncomfortable? Remember it’s not your family, or your
kids.”[4]
You tell them.
This is something I love to see. A mum fighting against the culture to be more
in the lives of her children. The norm in our culture for some time has been
mothers increasingly abandoning their kids, and then creating all sorts of rationalizations
that what they are doing is not only not wrong, it is necessary and good. You
can see these women represented in this article, who are criticising this young
woman for wanting to hold onto her kids more. I have addressed these types of women before,
click here
to read one example. Women are created, by that I mean specially designed, not
only to bear children but to rear children. But the vast and great resources of
most institutions in our society for decades now have been directed at women to
convince them otherwise. Finally, though, this propaganda appears to be breaking in
significant numbers. Praise be to God.
And this
woman has identified one of the best advantages of keeping the children at home
to educate them, “a slower pace, more time with her babies…” This is the secret
joy of home-schoolers that they will tell you about if you ask them. Their
lives are actually simpler, not more complicated. This young woman has not gone
all the way to doing fulltime home-schooling. But I would encourage her, and
others like her, to consider it. She will find many of the advantages she has
already experienced increase.
Most of the
women who would criticize a young woman like this for wanting to have her kids
at home more, will be harbouring some kind of regret that they did not do this themselves.
They will be harbouring regret that they are stuck paying off a house, and two expensive cars, both they and
their husband, or boyfriend, or whoever, need to work to pay off, and that
they have barely any time to just chill and relax with their kids. As one
foolish person says in the article, “That’s what weekends are for.” You poor sap,
you don’t have to follow the busyness of everyone else. Dont you know this? It is joy when you step
outside that lifestyle and actively choose not to pursue the constantly full schedule
and all the extra-curricular activities that the busyness worshippers bow before.
At the end of
the day, what is the one thing most people say towards the end, “I wish I had
more time with my family.” The truth is you do right now have more time, make
use of it. Bring the kids home as much as you can, educate full-time in the
home if you can. You won’t regret it, not if you go about it wisely at least.
[1] Biance
Soldani, 2025, https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/school-life/wag-day-teachers-slam-mum-over-fourday-school-week/news-story/a48a7966bbfc53af8e2dc9ba7e1012ff?amp
[3]
Ibid.
[4] Ibid.
