If you could name the one book every child should have read by the time they were, let’s say thirteen, what would it be?
Category: Parenting and Family Life
What is “Too Extreme” Anyway?
While it is always fun to get together with extended family over the holidays, these holidays brought a rally of strange comments such as “so, it looks like you are joining a cult…””well, you cannot possibly want anymore children, you can’t afford it…””you have to be moderate…””those poor kids, they cannot even watch Charlie Brown’s… Continue reading What is “Too Extreme” Anyway?
Ah, Discipline
Over at Summa Mamas, SmockMomma blogs about discipline at Mass. I have absulutely nothing to add because I am truly brain dead on the subject. When I was a mother of two very well behaved children, I thought I knew all the answers. As the kids keep coming and as they get older, the more… Continue reading Ah, Discipline
Michelle responds….
here. I am frantically busy today and won’t have time to address her objections point by point. Michelle’s first principle seems to be that breastfeeding in itself is an act that, like defecation, “bodily housekeeping,” blowing one’s nose, and the marital act, should be performed in private. I believe this premise is incorrect. Breastfeeding is… Continue reading Michelle responds….
Hambet on traditional depictions of the saints
Hambet was sitting on my lap while I was surfing, and perked up when he saw the picture of Saint Anthony over at Caritate Dei. Peony: Do you know Who that Baby is? Hambet: Baby Jesus (“Baaaaaaaaaby JEEEEEEEsus!”) Peony: Right! That’s Baby Jesus! and that’s Saint Anthony holding Him. Hambet: (furrows brow, getting upset, angrily… Continue reading Hambet on traditional depictions of the saints
If I May
Michelle wonders “….why anyone would need to breastfeed in a public restaurant anyway. Certainly doing so is going to hinder your own eating, which is the point of restaurants. Couldn’t you feed the baby before going out to forage in fast-food establishments for your own nourishment?” This is where many people get confused, nursing is… Continue reading If I May
NO NURSING BABIES ALLOWED.
I allude, of course, to Burger King’s new corporate policy, which states clearly that mothers who nurse their babies at BK will not be harassed, and that other diners who claim to be offended by the sight of a baby being nourished by the means designed by God will be invited to sit in another… Continue reading NO NURSING BABIES ALLOWED.