day no. 16,407: it's not the best... it's better

"Woman must be a cook, but not a competitive cook; a school mistress, but not a competitive schoolmistress; a house-decorator but not a competitive house-decorator; a dressmaker, but not a competitive dressmaker. She should have not one trade but twenty hobbies; she, unlike the man, may develop all her second bests.This is what has been really aimed at from the first in what is called the seclusion, or even the oppression, of women. Women were not kept at home in order to keep them narrow; on the contrary, they were kept at home in order to keep them broad. The world outside the home was one mass of narrowness, a maze of cramped paths, a madhouse of monomaniacs. It was only by partly limiting and protecting the woman that she was enabled to play at five or six professions and so come almost as near to God as the child when he plays at a hundred trades." — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong With The World

Women are better equipped and positioned to be the best that they can be without needing to be better than anyone else. A mother is not competing against the mother across the street to see who can make the best breakfast. A wife is not competing with the wife across the app to see who can better decorate their respective homes. A woman is not competing against the woman across the aisle to see who can best dress their children for church. A homeschool mom is not competing against the other homeschool moms to see who is the best teacher. In short, a woman doesn't need to be the best mother in the world to be the best mother for her home anymore than she needs to be the best wife in the world to be the best wife for her husband.