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Learning from The Leper Pig

February 8, 2012 by Caryn Leave a Comment

Learning from The Leper Pig

My daughter loves gold and sparkly and my (one) son loves pigs. So obviously spotting this gold, sparkly pig as we walked into a church lobby after a friend’s concert was a Rivadeneira family win-win. As I stood waiting for my kids to stop oohing and ahhing over its goldy goodness, a woman from the […]

Filed Under: Life, Roles, Women, World Changing Tagged With: featured

Honoring Moms, Not Motherhood

May 7, 2010 by Carla

Carla: We’re still here! More on where we’ve been and where we’re going in a minute. But first, check out Caryn’s fantastic post on Mother’s Day at her.menuetics.com. I hope she remembers us when she’s on Oprah. Anyway, we are sorry for our long absence from the Interwebs. After a long season of work-less-ness, projects […]

Filed Under: Identities, Mommy Revolution, Relationship, Roles Tagged With: slider

Is Motherhood a Calling?

January 15, 2009 by Carla

Carla: We had a great conversation on Midday Connection and it raised some important questions in the comments on the blog. One issue came up in Dave’s set of comments on this post–and we know it will come up again and again and again so we are going to dig into it a lot deeper. And I want to be […]

Filed Under: Dads, Identities, Life, Mommy Revolution, Roles

The Mom-Center of the Universe

January 11, 2009 by Caryn Leave a Comment

Half-a-Portrait

Caryn: I’m loving the feedback we’re getting on the Manifesto. And some people have raised some points that I can’t shake. One is the whole tension between not thinking we moms are the center of the universe and the reality that our kids need us to be—and that often we do want to be—of theirs.
Case-in-point: Before […]

Filed Under: Identities, Life, Manifesto, Mommy Revolution, Relationship, Roles

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