My home-making is a real full-time job

Genevieve McCaughan, Sydney, Australia

February 8, 2002

Tags: Children, Marriage, Upbringing I have been happily married for 17 years and we have ten children aged between 16 and 2 years old. My main professional work during these 17 years has been my home and bringing up my children. In a country like Australia, where there is virtually no home help, one can really call this a full-time job.
Being a teacher, by professional vocation, I passionately believe in Josemaria Escriva’s teaching that we parents are our children’s first educators. I have learnt more about teaching as a mother than when I was studying for my university degree.
Josemaria Escriva’s teaching that we should approach our function as parents as a professional task has encouraged both my husband and I to continue our studies through Family Guidance courses and appropriate reading. We participate actively in educational associations that concern our children both at their schools and in other broader institutions. I hold a position at the New South Wales Parents’ Council, a volunteer organisation that represents the parents of non-governmental schools before the state government of New South Wales, Australia.