May 3, 2013
by Marcus Priaulx
Lyn Williams regrets leaving school and her dreams for a boy when she was in Year 11.
The single mum had wanted to be a chef. She had done all her training through TAFE but love clouded her young mind.
Today she’s a single mother of 12 children and wonders how life may have turned out had she completed high school and entered the culinary world.
“Every night I watch My Kitchen Rules,” she says with a wry smile.
“It was my dream to become a chef.”
Today she cooks for her family at her Cherbourg home and ensures her seven youngest children go to school every day.
She irons their uniforms at a night and makes sure they’re wearing them in the morning and have lunch to take to school.
“I want them to grow to be better educated so they can reach their goals,” Lyn, who is the Cherbourg State School Parent of The Month for April, said.
“I want them to leave and chase their dreams.
“I want them to have an easier life than me; especially the girls.
“Education will help them to become what they want to become in their life.”
