Ya gotta love all the resentment expressed in the comments. This woman has her head on straight and her priorities right. Yeah, she admits to some things that make her sound insecure, but we all have our foibles. She sounds like a good person and is really quite honest about her choices.

Some commenters resent her success. Tall poppy syndrome is how humans roll. Surely, she has choices that less affluent people do not have, including rearing her own children. But it’s not clear why wanting to be the most influential person in your child’s life is a cancelable offense.

I do have one quarrel, though, and that’s with this ridiculous retronym “stay-at-home mom.” This woman is a homemaker, not to use the politically incorrect term “housewife.” She, wait for it, makes a home for her herself, her husband and her children. It is honorable, admirable, and, despite the whinging of elitist feminists, essential work. We should be doing material things to subsidize that work, but while the political machinery works through that problem, the least we can do is not make it sound like some sort of deviant anomaly.

[Update. The penny has dropped on “stay-at-home mom.” I was watching Jeopardy! the other night, and one of the contestants was introduced as a “stay-at-home dad.” Of course! “Homemaker” — which is what he is — is too feminine a word for this pioneer. He needs a title that befits his specialness. But, now that he’s a stay-at-home dad, what can his female counterpart be but a “stay-at-home mom”? What’s good for the gander, right? I’m not sure this deep insight changes my attitude toward how “stay-at-home mom” denigrates homemaking, but as Chris Rock said about OJ, I don’t condone it, but I understand it.]