YOUR EDUCATION WAS NOT WASTED

My daughter Rachel, husband Nate and their two children Evelyn age 2, and Douglas age 1 (plus dog Odie)


Today being Mother's Day, I wanted to share a topic that my daughter Rachel addressed on her blog a couple of days ago.  She lives in Idaho and had read an article she found on KSL news written by a journalist by trade, but currently a full-time mom. The journalist had been invited to address a class of high school students regarding career choices.  She fielded the expected questions about how to choose which college to go to, how did she decide on a major, etc.  The she was hit by a question she wasn't expecting- why go to college when you are just going to be a stay-at-home mom? She responded with the usual,  to provide for herself and her family in case of the death or disability of her husband.

But if she had the chance to respond to that question after some pondering she would answer that being a mother is a very difficult job and that one needs to get all the education and preparation for that job one can possibly get. After all, C.S. Lewis said that "the homemaker is the ultimate career.  All other careers exist simply to support it."

I would absolutely agree that no matter what you get your college degree in, it will not be wasted in a job as a full time mother.  You will need every skill and all the knowledge possible to succeed at what I think is the most important career choice possible.  The rearing and educating of the next generation.

You wouldn't leave your child at a day care with unlicensed or untrained workers for a few hours, why don't children deserve at least the same level of preparation from the parent that cares for them the rest of the day. 

Heather Hale, the writer of the KSL article declares that "motherhood is the most noble, challenging and intellectually stimulating profession on the planet."

I wholeheartedly agree.