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Motherhood is not the end of an intellectual life

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Just last week, another mother said to me “oh I don’t know how you do it - I’d lose my mind being with my children all the time, I need to stimulate my brain.” What she was really saying was that mothers who stay at home with their children - particularly those who choose to home educate - must have completely sacrificed having any form of intellectual life.

Just last week, another mother said to me “oh I don’t know how you do it - I’d lose my mind being with my children all the time, I need to stimulate my brain.” What she was really saying was that mothers who stay at home with their children - particularly those who choose to home educate - must have completely sacrificed having any form of intellectual life. Her comment was not unique - there is a widespread cultural assumption that intellectual life belongs to the period before children, or that it resumes once children are no longer hampering its development. Indeed, my life B.C. (before…

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