To some degree, I suppose it is true of all the blogs we read. I will browse one post, and that will leave me scratching my head wondering what it is about. A few days later I will see another post on the same blog and immediately connect. What is odd at sitting on the edge of the sandbox, biting my tongue is how that seems routine. What’s that word – eclectic? Perhaps that describes what is going on.
Here is one of 
Why Have Kids If Not to Spend Time With Them? is definitely worth reading and thinking about, but it is dangerous to think. Once we start thinking, one thought leads to another. First thoughts lead to second thoughts. Then we must contemplate the anxiety those second thoughts produce; we wonder how much more dangerous it might be to set it aside.
What does it require to gain the strength to sacrifice ourselves for another? Do you want to know why mothers such as Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann come across as more principled than any male Republican candidates? The answer can be found in a word. Near the end of her post
What are the mommy wars and the daddy wars about? Are they not about the Culture War? And how do we fight that war? We fight over the education of children. We fight to decide who will rock the cradle. Will union bureaucrats usurp the role of parents?
Thank you for the link. I had no idea there was such thing as mommy wars before I had a child. Its basically women battling over the correct way of raising children, down to the silliest minutia.
edge of the sandbox – I suppose that is as good a definition for “mommy wars” as any. What I suspect most of us ordinary citizens miss, however, is how the mommy wars affect politics. Think about how many decisions have been justified by just one phrase: “for the children.”
Unionized parents? What a horrible thought, Tom.
How I wish that thought had been born and died unspoken with me, but Princess Nancy would make it real.
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