From Moms can choose more home time — Jamie Self quotes Chesterton:
In the world of work, we are asked to give our best. And yet, when a woman leaves the work force to enter motherhood full (or even part) time, she does not just give her best; she gives her all.
A mother who is home with a child “full-time or part-time” is home with a human at a time when, as Chesterton puts it, he asks all the questions that there are, and some that there aren’t.
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, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness. Where children are involved, the only question to be asked, really, is “what is best for them.”
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