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Jennifer McBride | September 3, 2010
Here is a great article with some excellent and insightful commentary on the Duggar family: As we spoke to the 3 of them, one word kept jumping out at me: Freedom. These girls were experiencing freedom teenagers rarely taste. Completely free to be themselves. The exact opposite of the words so often used by media folk [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 12, 2010
Our good friend Candice Watters has some excellent things to say in response to the argument that daycare is actually good for mothers and children: Last Sunday, after eating scrambled eggs and donuts for brunch, we shifted to the living room for coffee and conversation with our guests, a young newly married couple in the [...]
Jamie V Marino | August 12, 2010
Women used to know the importance of being in the home. They realized the gravity of their roles of being a wife and mom and knew that abdicating their roles would most certainly not be good for the family. I personally know that I could not be the wife and mom that the Lord has [...]
Mrs. Eva H. | July 31, 2010
I will admit it, I love bridal shows. Not the reality type shows like “Bridezilla,” which I watched once and had to turn off after a few minutes in shame for the lady in front of the camera, but the ones that show more of the work behind the scenes of the “fuss and feathers.” [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 29, 2010
Hang on to your hats (and prepare to sit down with a cup of tea for a long read). This is the best piece I have ever read on marriage in our post-modern times. It is a tour de force and should be required reading for anyone concerned about the state of relationships between men [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 19, 2010
‘They couldn’t believe it when I told them I have chosen to be a full-time mother,’ says the 27-year-old, who lives in South-West London with her husband Richard, 30, a teacher, and her children George, four, and Verity, two. ‘I could tell from their reaction that they couldn’t help assuming I must be bored stiff [...]
Mrs. June Fuentes | July 16, 2010
What is home culture, you ask? Home culture is the atmosphere that is purposefully and intentionally cultivated within the four walls of your home. It is the music when you walk in the door, it is the conversation at the dinner table, it is games played by the fireside, it is the singing when your [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 4, 2010
From Carolyn Moynihan at Mercatornet: Nearly one in five American women ends her childbearing years without having borne a child, compared with one in ten in the 1970s, the Pew Research Centre reports. Practically the only group of women less likely to be childless now compared with about two decades ago are those with advanced [...]
Jasmine Baucham | June 18, 2010
“The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.” ~Simone de Beauvoir Someday, I would like to get married to a man who I can follow to the ends of the earth as he follows full-heartedly after Christ. Someday, I would like [...]
Sandra King | June 10, 2010
I had no idea until Monday afternoon that my newlywed children were living the lifestyle desired by many. It’s the D.I.N.K. lifestyle. I had no idea that this lifestyle had a name until a dear friend mentioned it. I’ve known numerous couples over the years that lived this lifestyle, but I’ve never been one to [...]
Jasmine Baucham | May 31, 2010
Lately, I have been convicted of a truth that I have long denied: I am sheltered. I know what you might be thinking. As a homeschool graduate, as an adult daughter living at home, as a Christian, this is a claim that I have been taught to deny. I do not live in a comfortably [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 10, 2010
Have to admit I did a double-take when I saw a quote from this article and realized who wrote it (thanks, Candice, for the URL!): One significant, and enduring, effect of The Pill on female sexual attitudes during the 60′s, was: “Now we can have sex anytime we want, without the consequences. Hallelujah, let’s party!” [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 3, 2010
I can’t tell you the exact moment I made the decision to be a stay-at-home mom. I can remember a few of the moments that I acted on it — like when my husband and I started sacrificing for the “baby fund” or the day I handed in my resignation and said good-bye to almost [...]
Mrs. June Fuentes | May 1, 2010
She was busy running the women’s ministry at church. She would rush home and get ready for her MOPS meeting and then later in the day she knew she would somehow try to fit in the desperately needed shopping trip to host the monthly bible study in her home. She also had to run Johnny [...]
Anna T | May 1, 2010
The other day, while I was waiting in line at the doctor’s office, I happened to overhear the conversation of two young moms who were sitting right next to me. It caught my attention, not because of how unusual it was, but because it’s so very typical these days. “I pay so much for daycare,” [...]
