There are crazies out there
In this excellent little message to baby boomers and gen-xers, Steve Olson writes: When I mention that you refuse to let your kids ride their bikes to the park, you say, “Things are different today....
View ArticleParenting Guilt ain’t Real Guilt
Jim pointed to this article on Mommy Guilt and wondered if mothers in his own church would concur. Well, I’m not a mother (but I’m married to one) and I’m not in Jim’s church, so what I say will be...
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Out There: People Who Live Without TV: “I interviewed one guy who was 31, single, an artist living in Boston, who saw himself as countercultural,” Krcmar told LiveScience. “The next day I had an...
View ArticleUbuntu: Rite of Passage
My son was annoyed that his school-provided laptop includes NetNanny configured in such a way to keep him out of game sites like PopTropica. Now, I understand the desire to censor our children’s forays...
View ArticleRadioactive content
I’m going to take this from “hot-button” to radioactive. Children deserve a resident father. Women do not deserve to have children simply because they want them. … There’s a difference between what...
View ArticleHOWTO: Write without offending
It is very difficult to write about a moral position without offending someone. is probably right: I should just keep my mouth shut, or, in the case of this blog, not purposefully post incendiary...
View ArticleNuture Shock for Parents
American culture — especially American middle class white culture — is neurotic about parenting. From the idea of permissive parenting that Doctor Spock supposably espoused to the use of Baby Einstein...
View ArticleYour Dad
“Of all the things you considered your dad, a person was never one of them.” So much more relevant now that I am a dad.
View ArticleHow to handle prejudice — kid’s edition
When I showed my kids my last post they said I should write about some of their experiences. I should post a picture here of my kids. I know they don’t look like your typical Mennonites, but neither do...
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