I love right-wing, Christian women. And more specifically, I love right-wing, Christian mothers. I think they’re one of the most powerful lines of defense against a culture that seems dead set on destroying our connection to God and to our founding.
I’m so grateful for mothers willing to pull their kids out of school over Critical Race Theory and the gender and sexuality “spectrum.”
I’m grateful to mothers that are willing to batch soaps and detergents at home with natural ingredients, and drive 2 hours out of their way for the highest quality food they can get their hands on.
And make no mistake; this isn’t an attack on mothers that don’t do the same. But I’m grateful for the ones that do precisely because I don’t know if I’d have the same determination or resolve in their shoes.
I’m in Facebook groups, Bible studies and other communities in real life and online with plenty of conservative Christian mothers.
When they talk about tongue ties and sleep training and breastfeeding they might as well be Cantonese astrophysicists explaining what they did at work that day. I couldn’t keep up with it if I tried.
But “the village” — or more accurately, the lack thereof — seems to come up constantly, and I actually have a lot to say about it even though I’ve never spoken up about it…until now.
In these never-ending discussions of “the village,” I’ve noticed questions that seem obvious to me completely ignored.
It never seems to be the right time to ask them as these conversations are taking place.
When a mom is venting, sometimes on the verge of tears, it seems much more appropriate to let her express herself and let other moms comfort her than to challenge the premise altogether.
I believe love requires honesty, but that honesty can and should be delivered with tact. There is a time and a place to commiserate and console, and a time and a place for confronting ourselves, our circumstances and how we may have contributed to them.
Maybe my blog will have to be that place.
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