Jul 6, 2010
Summer Hiatus
Yes, yes, I'm taking a break. Call it inconsistency, poor discipline, the downside of attachment parenting a child who doesn't like to sleep, whatever you like. I'll be back in the fall, after we've moved and settled into our new digs with some new thoughts. Happy Summering everyone.
May 17, 2010
Shake-Up
About once a week I think about deleting this blog. About once a week, I feel too vulnerable, having all this personal stuff out there with who knows who reading. Many of my friends don't share my parenting beliefs (or my other beliefs, actually!) and generally I think of this as a good thing, an enriching thing, a world-stretching, mind-expanding kind of thing. Except of course when I'm the only half-Palestinian half-white Protestant Attachment Parenting momma that I know of. And that can be pretty lonely. But anyway...
What I wanted to talk about is how to walk that line of having opinions and offending people. I know it offends people that I breastfeed my 19 month old. Whatever. That's not the kind of offense I'm bothered by. What I do worry about is how my thoughts on parenting affect others and how to walk that line--how to push the envelope and play the cultural critic without being cruel, arrogant or dismissive. I believe that by and large, all parents love their children. I believe that by and large, we are all in the mess of a world together, trying to sort things out and do our best.
But then, I also really do believe that things are not as they are supposed to be, as my pastor said this Sunday. And I believe in our mutual responsibility to do better, to keep on trying, no matter how difficult, how messy, how impossible it all can seem. Ultimately, that's why I'm still here, writing. I can't shake the feeling that the way we care for our young in this country is fallen, broken, and in need of a good discourse shake up.
How about you, how do you walk that line? Whether in your conversations with friends and family member or in a more public setting like a blog, how do you decide how much to say about your parenting beliefs?
What I wanted to talk about is how to walk that line of having opinions and offending people. I know it offends people that I breastfeed my 19 month old. Whatever. That's not the kind of offense I'm bothered by. What I do worry about is how my thoughts on parenting affect others and how to walk that line--how to push the envelope and play the cultural critic without being cruel, arrogant or dismissive. I believe that by and large, all parents love their children. I believe that by and large, we are all in the mess of a world together, trying to sort things out and do our best.
But then, I also really do believe that things are not as they are supposed to be, as my pastor said this Sunday. And I believe in our mutual responsibility to do better, to keep on trying, no matter how difficult, how messy, how impossible it all can seem. Ultimately, that's why I'm still here, writing. I can't shake the feeling that the way we care for our young in this country is fallen, broken, and in need of a good discourse shake up.
How about you, how do you walk that line? Whether in your conversations with friends and family member or in a more public setting like a blog, how do you decide how much to say about your parenting beliefs?
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