Abbi’s Reviews > Scholé Every Day: How to Be a Thinking Mom > Status Update

"Sometimes questions feel like threats, but shrinking away from them keeps us safe, small and shallow. Thinking deeply is only threatening if we value familiarity and comfort over truth and reality."

"The article "Mother Culture" from The Parents' Review, written over a hundred years ago, makes similar observations: "There is no sadder sight in life than a mother, who has so used herself up in her children's childhood, that she has nothing to give them in their youth."
[We read]...because we are gratefully developing the minds God gave us and hopefully preparing for the future..."