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Too embarrassing... and no morals without God?
I'm interested to know what you think... Just watched the most bizarre thing on the One Show on BBC1. The One Show is a daily news magazine programme - a bit like Nationwide a generation ago - and to its credit they do they to cover a wide range of issues. The lead report tonight......Read More

Posted on: 2009-02-03 16:04:58 | Rating:

| Views: 170 | Comments: 1 | Tags: blog BBC the One Show christianity faith religion atheism morality ethics comment science

Willow Creek women in the lead
So I gave up my Saturday this week - which would normally be filled with entertaining my one year old, going shopping, may be doing something a bit fun like going out to lunch etc. - and spent it instead with 200 other women. The Willow Creek organisation ran a women and leadership seminar......Read More

Posted on: 2009-02-03 16:25:39 | Rating:

| Views: 121 | Comments: 0 | Tags: faith religion christianity gifts leadership women blog online

My son is a fish!
Today we were looking at one of those "first words" books. The first two pictures were of a little girl with long brown curls (labelled "girl") and a blond boy (labelled "boy"). I showed him the pictures, waited for him to repeat the words, then said......Read More

Posted on: 2009-02-10 10:14:45 | Rating:

| Views: 91 | Comments: 1 | Tags: family child development kids children motherhood parenting parents reading funny

Ouch! Mummies - v- non-mummies
The Observer. Sister paper to the Guardian. Home of right-on-ness. And this week, with the inclusion of Observer Woman magazine very lacking in sisterly love. This weekend's magazine seems basically to have been about mother-bashing. The (needless to say) child-free columnists featured......Read More

Posted on: 2009-02-10 12:59:02 | Rating:

| Views: 126 | Comments: 0 | Tags: family women relationships feminism parenting parents children kids child childlessness child-free guilt

Who do your kids belong to?
Every parent in England must have felt a prickle of fear this week. An appeal court ruled that, despite not having commited a crime, children could not be returned to their birth parents. That's a ruling with implications for all of us. This is a very sad case: a couple were wrongly accused......Read More

Posted on: 2009-02-17 12:53:50 | Rating:

| Views: 163 | Comments: 0 | Tags: family parenting parent child dhildren law adoption birth relationship rights human rights

Gesture for the blindingly obvious?
Do you talk with your hands? I don't mean sign language, just emphatic gestures. The sort of thing that Tina Fey or Jon Culshaw would do to signify "you" if they were impersonating you on TV. May be it's because I'm a linguist by background, but I thought everyone......Read More

Posted on: 2009-02-18 08:15:06 | Rating:

| Views: 104 | Comments: 0 | Tags: family parenting child development language lingusitics gesture sign babysigning baby child motherhood research science news vocabulary learning

today's word of the day
Slummy mummy strikes again... Have you found www.urbandictionary.com ? I love it, it's words for things that you recognise but didn't have a way of expressing. I've signed up for their daily "word of the day" email. Today's phrase was "laundry limbo",......Read More

Posted on: 2009-02-23 10:35:29 | Rating:

| Views: 136 | Comments: 1 | Tags: life words language word of the day fun family laundry laugh joke parenthood home parent motherhood mummy

EU politics without an agenda
One of my favourite bloggers, Nosemonkey , seems to be having something of an existential crisis. He says he's interested in politics but doesn't CARE about politics. I think I know what he means. When I was at school, we did two different surveys to help us identify potential future......Read More

Posted on: 2009-02-28 18:07:27 | Rating:

| Views: 90 | Comments: 0 | Tags: EU Europe European politics UK Westminster blogging Nosemonkey party politics impartial blog thoughts

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