boiling teapot

“Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials — to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman’s hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.”

~Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist.

NB: Rachel left a comment yesterday inviting us to participate in a study of parenting views and practices being conducted by Dr. Kim White-Mills and Dr. Catherine Dobris of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Head over and express your opinion!

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