A friend put up a link on Facebook, it challenged the phrase ‘just a mum’. I commented, and thought I’d put my comment here as an entry.
This is the original link: http://www.selfishmother.com/just-a-mum-2/
And my response.
I was once talking to a bloke at a dinner party who said he hated that question because he didn’t want to be identified purely by his job. That was the first time I thought of this. R has the same opinion.
This has made me reword, slightly, that age old question to kids; I ask “What do you want to DO when you grow up?” in place of “What do you want to BE when you grow up?”
I work as a TA but I am a mum, a runner, a writer. I love to learn new things and like to keep my mind open. Being a TA really helps me with that, but it’s my passions that define me. Not my job.
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