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Mormons and Death: Childhood Pets
Four-Year-Old Me and My First Pet My sister and her family recently moved across the country, just a few days after their pet cat gave birth to four kittens. When my sister’s family arrived in their...
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Poll: Suffer the Little Children to Come unto Sacrament Meeting
Clearly, this ain't my family. During the past several years, I have rarely had a spiritually enriching experience at sacrament meeting. I am too distracted because I share a pew with the rowdiest...
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Newborns and Nighttime Division of Labor
My husband studies the economics of happiness, among a variety of other economic fields. I never forgot one thing he shared with me years ago — that the first year a couple has a baby is often the...
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China’s Gender Bias—and Mine
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, International Database, 2010 Estimates I’ve learned the gender of my unborn child via ultrasound. If I lived in China or India, such a procedure would be illegal, due to...
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Three Weeks to Practice Before I Preach
About three weeks ago, I was asked to prepare a talk about teaching children to understand, based on a conference address by Cheryl A. Esplin, Second Counselor of the General Primary Presidency....
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Perpetuating the Santa Claus Myth
When my daughter asked me about the veracity of Santa Claus, I told her that I like to pretend that Santa Claus is real because it is such a fun thing to imagine. She seemed fine with that. Although...
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From the Backlist: Favorite Quotes by Women about Leadership
April: My daughter’s PTA just sent an email saying they are decorating her school with quotes about leadership. The email listed 17 quotes and asked if anyone had any other quotes to suggest. All 17...
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Girl Scouts Sans Troop
I was never a girl scout but I wanted my daughter to be one. American Mormon boys enroll in church-sponsored Boy Scouts troops. However, the LDS church does not sponsor Girl Scout troops. To be fair...
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It’s Not All About Money
There are some women (it has become very many in fact) who have to work to provide for the needs of their families. To you I say, do the very best you can. I hope that if you are employed full-time you...
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Bikes, Bikes, Bikes
Some bike-themed Exponent posts, a poll and a video. (Click on the titles of some of these wonderful, classic posts to enjoy some bike-related reading. When you’re done, get off the computer and go for...
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The “Measure of our Creation”
Today is the end of my seventh week in a 24-week programming bootcamp. Three months ago, I was only non-chalantly applying for it, after having applied to another and had not gotten in. It wasn’t...
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Tips from the Daughter of a Sexual Abuse Survivor
My mother is a brave woman who dared to speak out about being raped on multiple occasions by a brother-in-law during her childhood, although recounting such experiences caused her personal pain and in...
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You can’t be what you can’t see
My seven year old nephew recently announced to his mother that there are more boys than girls on the earth. My sister asked,”Why do you think that?” He explained, “Because Heavenly Father and Jesus are...
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One More Example of ETB Lesson 15 (AKA: What Motherhood Looks Like For Me)
I said this to my Relief Society sisters Sunday, more or less. (Not included are the beautiful, thoughtful answers they said back.) (If you happen to still be teaching Lesson 15, please check out...
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Book Review Series: When We Became Three
Allison M. is a children’s librarian. True to librarian stereotypes, she loves reading, knitting, and baking. She has a husband and one daughter and is still working on getting some cats. When We...
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Memoirs of a Teen Without Raging Hormones
We’re all familiar with the stereotypical, hormone-driven, boy-crazy teenager. That wasn’t me. I had no interest in boys. Sure, I liked to go on dates, but I never developed any crushes or romantic...
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Book Review: Our Heavenly Families, Our Earthly Families
McArthur Krishna, Bethany Brady Spalding, and Caitlin Connolly. Our Heavenly Family, Our Earthly Families. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2016. Available August 22. But you can pre-order today!...
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Dating Our Children
I was raised as one of five siblings, all of us born within less than a decade of each other. It was fun—I never lacked company—but individual attention was hard to come by. To occasionally give us...
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How Do You Raise Feminist Sons (or Daughters) in a Patriarchal Church?
[Image: Superhero Kid by Laura Powell on Flickr] A friend recently posted this on a private social media group I belong to (reprinted here with permission): “This morning, my son (11) came into my...
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Community Support: Kindergarten-style
One summer day when I was 38 weeks pregnant, I went outside to turn on the sprinklers. I reached down to flip on the pump, feeling for the switch. With my view obscured by my giant belly, I didn’t see...
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