Below are posts associated with the “parenting” tag.
🔗 linkblog: Open Letter to the Guy with “Dad” in His LinkedIn Headline
Bookmarking this so I can keep thinking about it.
🔗 linkblog: Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their Money In Heaven Now
This got a dark chuckle from me.
pushing back against and testing limits with kiddo's school projects
Since kiddo was really little, her aunt has been sending her “notable women,” “notable people of color,” “notable Indigenous people,” and “notable queer people” books, which has been good for just setting a background level of what we want our kid to be aware of as she grows up. When she came home with a “famous American” project, she was pretty clear up front that she was not going to choose a dude, and she turned to her little collection of books to come up with the three names that she needed to turn in to her teacher for approval before she could start the project.
communion, tarot, and Lavina Fielding Anderson: some thoughts on sacraments
My kid is being raised by a mother who is entirely done with anything that smacks of religion and a father who is very non-literal and not very exclusivist, so it’s unsurprising that she tends to pick and choose when she wants to do church stuff with me. If I’m driving over to Louisville to attend church in person, she’ll usually come with me. If I’m attending church via Zoom because Louisville is over an hour away, she tends to read or play in her room instead. A few weeks ago, though, when she realized it was Communion Sunday (in Community of Christ, the first Sunday of the month), she insisted that I call her over when it was time for communion so that she could be part of that.