Motherhood May Be Hazardous to Your Health
LDS teachings on motherhood are incomplete. Here’s what I wish I had been taught before having children. As a struggling parent to a newborn and a toddler, I visited the home of a friend...
Tagged: infertility
We Are Not All Mothers
So often at church, womanhood and motherhood are seen as synonyms. There’s no concept of a woman who is not a mother. The concept of a non-mother woman is so foreign that people feel...
Sisterhood on Mother’s Day (and Book Reviews!)
It was more than a decade ago, and I was in a new branch, and just called to be a Relief Society Teacher. I wasn’t thrilled. I had only recently found the Exponent Blog...
Women of the Bible Series: The Woman of Canaan / The Syrophenician Woman
In the scriptures, sometimes the same stories are told by different authors. This serves to expand upon the record of the person or event, and it serves to emphasize the importance of the story...
Do You Believe in Santa?
I looked at the man in the Santa suit and figured this perpetuation-of-Santa jig of mine was at an end. He was one of the workers at the after school care centre that my...
Book Review: Fresh Courage Take
I can’t remember when I first heard about Fresh Courage Take, but can remember when I first knew that I would read it. It was earlier this summer, sitting beside a Provo splash-pad with...
Guest Post: A Mother of One
by Lori Davis When I introduce my family at church, the wheels start turning in people’s heads. “Only one child . . . and the daughter’s not a baby.” Most people assume that I...
Birth/Rebirth: From the Backlist: Motherhood Versus Womanhood
Our plans for a series with the theme of birth sparked an interesting discussion among Exponent bloggers. Birth can be a difficult topic; not all women have the opportunity or desire to give birth...
Comments