Tag Archives: child development

Toy Guns and Carefully Shaped Pieces of Seaweed

By conflict of parenting philosophy, kids, movies, parenting, peace-making, play, science, teenagers, toys, violence, violence against women

Like many of you, I feel almost unresolvably torn when it comes to little kids and games of murder. Raising SBJ to be a kind, non-violent man is a high priority for us, so what do we do about games of cops and robbers or pirates? My besties Nicholas, Richard and I played ‘Luke and […]

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Community and Competitive Parenting

By babies, community, culture, emotional well-being, friends, hilarity, kids, lucky, motherhood, pastor, pregnancy

In A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor gives the news each week from the township of Lake Wobegon, where ‘all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.’ It’s not just Lake Wobegon. Some friends of ours observed the amusing number of parents around them who considered […]

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