Author Archives: Fascinating Womanhood

~ By an Anonymous Contributor My success story is quite different. I have five lovely children, four of them are girls. My son, age 8 ½ is my success story. Doug has had many health problems since he was a small baby. His main ones are thyroid and blood deficiencies and allergies. At age 8 […]

~ By an Anonymous Contributor All the glamour the world has given to the women’s movement isn’t there that much. Our nations working world, especially at the executive level, is negative-oriented rather than positive or creative oriented.  This is due in part to high inflation, excessive government control, excessive litigation, which has driven insurance rates […]

By Dixie Andelin Forsyth, 7/12/20 Dear Cinderella, I know your life is hard. Seems like you rarely get a break, and you’re discouraged. Maybe you’ve wondered why you should keep trying. In your weakest moments (we all have them), perhaps you’ve even felt angry and told yourself you deserve better, that your stepmother and stepsisters […]

~ By an Anonymous Contributor Our household used to be a real disaster area a few weeks back. When my husband walked in the door, the older children were fighting, the baby was screaming to eat, and I certainly wasn’t the most pleasant thing he would set eyes on! Things have really changed! We all […]

~ By an Anonymous Contributor When I was twenty-seven I married a thirty-four-year-old bachelor, a rough, tough naval officer and for the next twenty-seven years he remained rough and tough. I bent over backwards trying to change him into a tender, loving husband. Nothing worked! All through his navel career he was spit and polish…and […]

By Dixie Andelin Forsyth, 06/26/2020 When I was little, going to a movie was a rare and expensive occasion, and now anyone can watch movies in their own home at the press of a remote button. Cars used to be terrible gas-guzzlers and often didn’t have seat belts or tinted windows; now driving is safer […]

One of my pet peeves is the TV going full blast during meals. But this has been my husband’s wish and I have accepted it. Since the lesson on sympathetic understanding, then doing some of the things we talked about in class, I’ve been surprised at how much the children and I were taking for […]

By Dixie Andelin Forsyth, 6/11/20 “I really thought you’d do more with your life than just raise a bunch of children.” “Are you sure you want to be a mother? What about YOUR needs? Don’t you want to feel fulfilled?” “She’s doing something important with her life, not wasting it by being a stay-at-home mom.” […]

~ By an Anonymous Contributor “I had a perfect opportunity to use sympathetic understanding on the very first day of my Fascinating Womanhood class. When my husband came home from an unusually bad day at work, he was in a terrible mood, ready to pick a fight over the least little thing. Instead of being […]