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Waxing Philosophical about Binky Talk

The other day, a friend who’s about to have her first baby passed me a giant, Costco-sized can of worms and invited me to open it. “What do you think about pacifiers?” she asked.

When it comes to infant care practices, I’m about as natural as you can get. I have homebirths, cue-feed, co-sleep, and do [...]

Wonderful Documentary

A couple weeks ago, I started hearing about a BBC documentary, called Trouble in Amish Paradise (hat tip to Cheryl at Mom’s in Need of Mercy for being the first to talk about it). I don’t have a lot of movie viewing time, so I didn’t pay attention, but once another friend brought it up [...]

A Thought Experiment, Part 3, in Which I Hear From My Cousin

Following the fantastic discussions in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, I received some e-mails from my cousin. This particular cousin happens to have a Ph.D. in Patristics, which is the study of the early Church fathers. In other words, he’s devoted himself to the study of exactly the time period when Christmas [...]