The Bible and Polygamy

Given its prominence in the news and the religious background to the FLDS marriage practices, I thought it might be worthwhile to talk about polygamy in the context of the Bible. There is a tendency in our culture to treat the Bible as a collection of aphorisms, a kind of compendium of easy to [...]

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Works-for-Me Wednesday: Brushing the Kids’ Teeth

I haven’t done one of Shannon’s Works-for-me Wednesdays in a while, but the last few nights a new trick has been working for us, and I thought I would share it.
Our two older girls - four and almost three years old - hate getting their teeth brushed. It is a struggle every night. [...]

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I watched Pygmalion for the first time tonight. I have never seen a movie that so clearly mimics what it’s like to wash my two-year-old daughter’s hair.
The bath scene begins about four minutes in.

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Three Random Things or, It’s Allergy Season and I’m Too Tired to Do Much Thinking

I have a couple of long posts brewing, but the allergies and the pregnancy are making me sluggish. So today is the perfect day for a simple meme. Fortunately for me, Tonggu Momma tagged me for a meme a few days ago, asking me to list three random things about me. Here [...]

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The Exploitation of Mommy-Blogging

Catherine at Her Bad Mother has a thought-provoking (as usual) post about the nature of mommy-blogging, and whether or not writing about our children is inherently exploitive. Catherine was interviewed for an article on the subject, and - unsuprisingly, given the nature of journalism -is being pilloried by angry commenters who believe she has [...]

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