...with Parenting magazine! I have enjoyed perusing the mag since my pregnancy days int he dr's office, and we have gotten a couple free issues since Cadence was born. Though there are some helpful articles (vacation tips, recipes, etc.) that I enjoy reading, I can no longer recommend the magazine to my friends, let alone keep a copy coming my house.
What is so disgusting? Frankly, I never saw a magazine entitled Parenting to be one that I would recommend someone go to for tips on how to pleasure there husband. Or one column in particular that encouraged couples to view pornography together! I mean really! Isn't it supposed to be about Parenting? Not to mention the fact that they are destroying their audience (the family.. or is that their audience?)
In addition, many of the articles I read brush so quickly over being a stay-at-home mom, if they touch on it at all. The magazine seems more directed towards people who are working parents.
All-in-all, the magazine is not for chaste, happily married, religious, stay-at-home moms who believe in the sanctity of marriage and the sacredness of marital intimacy (yeah..not for me).
As for the cool recipes, exercise tips, or parenting related issues, I think I can find my elsewhere.
(In case you were wondering, I made sure that Parenting knew how I felt about their magazine. I don't want to read a magazine like that, but I definitely DON'T want that kind of magazine in the society I live in either. Make a stand for values!)
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
So many good things...
...Aren't there just so many good things to do that sometimes it is hard to know what you should be doing? I was just thinking that looking at my blog (and how empty it is).
On the topic, I have decided to quit teaching voice and piano lessons after July. It's a great thing, and just a couple of hours a week, but it leaves me stressed on some days. I feel like I could be doing so many more good things enjoying my baby. I went back and forth trying to decide, because I really do love teaching! This week has been a real confirmation (blessing) because I have had a lot of students out of town and have really enjoyed the non-stress week with Cadence. I will continue to teach some once-in-awhile lessons (I teach voice to my brother once a month).
Someday I will take up teaching voice again. Right now, I love performing in my kitchen (while I cook or do the dishes) to my little 5 month old! He is definitely my biggest fan. He always stops what he's doing and stares at me, followed up with a huge smile at the climax of the song! I just have to stop and laugh sometimes. I tell him often that I went to school for 4 years so I could learn to sing him lullaby's. In some ways, it's very true.
Being a wife and a mother is the best part about my life. Why would anyone choose anything else? I believe that when anything gets in the way of your family, it's not really worth it. Everything should support and sustain family. Everything you do should bring family closer together. When I remember those simple things, all of the sudden it's much more clear what good things I can do without.
On the topic, I have decided to quit teaching voice and piano lessons after July. It's a great thing, and just a couple of hours a week, but it leaves me stressed on some days. I feel like I could be doing so many more good things enjoying my baby. I went back and forth trying to decide, because I really do love teaching! This week has been a real confirmation (blessing) because I have had a lot of students out of town and have really enjoyed the non-stress week with Cadence. I will continue to teach some once-in-awhile lessons (I teach voice to my brother once a month).
Someday I will take up teaching voice again. Right now, I love performing in my kitchen (while I cook or do the dishes) to my little 5 month old! He is definitely my biggest fan. He always stops what he's doing and stares at me, followed up with a huge smile at the climax of the song! I just have to stop and laugh sometimes. I tell him often that I went to school for 4 years so I could learn to sing him lullaby's. In some ways, it's very true.
Being a wife and a mother is the best part about my life. Why would anyone choose anything else? I believe that when anything gets in the way of your family, it's not really worth it. Everything should support and sustain family. Everything you do should bring family closer together. When I remember those simple things, all of the sudden it's much more clear what good things I can do without.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Did you ever....
... start thinking what would happen if you die? This is not meant to be a morbid question. In a state of deep pondering this morning, I started wondering what my families life might be like if I was no longer here on earth. I felt very sad and then all of the sudden, determined to live my life differently. I've always heard people say "Live each day as if it's your last", but until today, I didn't understand how to do that. I resolved to get frustrated less often, to spend more time being "yellow" (I often speak in code - the Color Code - so if you don't understand try reading the book), to love a little bit more, complain less, smile more, and to let more things just be. Why is it that we so easily fall into thinking that without us the world will fall apart? The best realization for me was that - it wont'! Sure there will be sadness (but thinking of that just made me realize how much my family loves me), but it definitely will not fall apart. They will find a new way of living and keep moving forward. That is what I would want for them (moving forward does not mean forgetting. In fact, remembering is the reason to move forward). Think about it truly for yourself sometime. What would you do differently if today was your last?
Saturday, May 9, 2009
I was listening to the radio...
...talk show on Classical 89 here in Provo during the drive up to pick up my husband from the airport. They were discussing trends in breastfeeding - very interesting.
Here were some of the facts.
1. In America, woman with more education are more likely to breastfeed
2. In South America, woman with less education are more likely to breastfeed
3. Women in the Eastern United States are less likely to breastfeed.
4. In the recent past, the talk about breastfeeding was to bottle feed so you could "free yourself". The trend is moving back towards the importance for sacrificing for this important benefit.
5. The physical health benefits of breastfeeding drop off after the infant is a year old.
6. Woman are more likely to nurse if they have a support system.
..and the list goes on. It was really a quite interesting discussion. Among the subtopics discussed, they did talk about how they plan to push breastfeeding to increase the health of our nation. One of the items discussed is that woman tend to not breastfeed because it is very inconvenient. In very few stores (usually limited to specialty store that sell maternity, infant, or nursing items) are there rooms where a nursing mother can take her infant to nurse. Woman as a result end up using a bathroom stall as the only other alternative for privacy. All I have to say is "Can I get an AMEN" if you have ever ended up nursing in a bathroom stall? How can we get more stores to accommodate nursing mothers by adding a room for the comfort and privacy of a nursing mother? Out of the whole conversation, it is what a took as my new wish for the world! It would sure make my life MUCH more pleasant!
Here were some of the facts.
1. In America, woman with more education are more likely to breastfeed
2. In South America, woman with less education are more likely to breastfeed
3. Women in the Eastern United States are less likely to breastfeed.
4. In the recent past, the talk about breastfeeding was to bottle feed so you could "free yourself". The trend is moving back towards the importance for sacrificing for this important benefit.
5. The physical health benefits of breastfeeding drop off after the infant is a year old.
6. Woman are more likely to nurse if they have a support system.
..and the list goes on. It was really a quite interesting discussion. Among the subtopics discussed, they did talk about how they plan to push breastfeeding to increase the health of our nation. One of the items discussed is that woman tend to not breastfeed because it is very inconvenient. In very few stores (usually limited to specialty store that sell maternity, infant, or nursing items) are there rooms where a nursing mother can take her infant to nurse. Woman as a result end up using a bathroom stall as the only other alternative for privacy. All I have to say is "Can I get an AMEN" if you have ever ended up nursing in a bathroom stall? How can we get more stores to accommodate nursing mothers by adding a room for the comfort and privacy of a nursing mother? Out of the whole conversation, it is what a took as my new wish for the world! It would sure make my life MUCH more pleasant!
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