If You’ve Been Told Your Job as a Mother is Worthless (That Has Been Told To Me Recently)
“To be Queen Elizabeth within a certain area, deciding sales, banquets, labors, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, books, sheets, cakes, and books; to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene. I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No: A woman’s function is laborious because it is gigantic, not because it is minute.” G. K. Chesterton
About The Author
I’m so sorry someone was so rude to you. A family member recently told me that I was “wasting my talents” by homeschooling my children. Apparently, using all of one’s talents on all of a little person’s being is “wasteful,” whereas using some of one’s talents on some of a person’s (or rather, company’s) being is “useful.” What a mixed up society we live in!