‘Mum filled my CHILDHOOD WITH JOY’

My stay-at-home mum gave me everything I needed to succeed, says author Rachel Marks

I remember a few years ago reading an article about how daughters of stay-at-home mums were less successful and ambitious than those with working mums. I was incensed. I was the person at university who, instead of going out drinking, spent hours perfecting my essays, knowing that anything less than a First would feel like a failure. And I spent my first maternity leave writing my Masters’ dissertation while bouncing on a birthing ball trying to get the baby’s head to engage. I fully support working mums. It wasn’t that I felt daughters of stay-at-home mums were better off; it was that I hated the suggestion my wonderful mum had disadvantaged us in some way. ‘Mum made me feel like I was the most important person in the world’ So…

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Woman & Home (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2021

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