Shirtless Children

A new post since the last one was taking forever to load. In reference to MckMama's "shirtless children" add to Google engines, thanks to her last post (complete with pictures), here's an article on the New York Times about protecting your children's images online:

Guardians of Their Smiles

He picked up a WHAT!?

New post is up. It revolves around a video you can watch here without giving MckMama clicks. Thoughts?

Some other points of conversation this week:

MckMama wrote an article that she referenced recently (but changed the wording on so she in no way mentions spanking) about spanking her children with wooden spoons. For her older two children, she was spanking them with a wooden spoon between one and two. Stellan is now 17 months old, the age where she writes about focusing on spanking her middle son, and it has some readers wondering if he is now being spanked with a wooden spoon as well.

There is a request to make a list of inconsistencies in one place. I'll work on this, but if anyone wants to chime in, I would be happy to have the help. It's a lot to go through.

And finally, there have been several comments over the last few weeks (err, well, months) about how this site feeds MckMama...her topics, her retorts, her snarky twitter comments, and her readership. I have wondered from time-to-time what would happen to her blog if MWOP shut down, and honestly, I think all of us here do feed into her site enough to keep her numbers higher than they would have been otherwise for a little while longer.

Regardless, is no doubt her numbers are dropping, and fast. In fact, if the public page view and visitor information for MckMama is correct.....

MWOP had within five thousand page views of MckMama two of the last seven days this week.

Just amazing, you guys.

It does leave MWOP with a dilemma. Do I shut down the site to avoid giving her more business? Or do we owe the kids some financial stability and need to stick with it a little while longer?

Discipline and the Mom video

Here's MckMama's explanation of the "Mom" video.

It's waaaaay down under "practice extinction" What do you think?

"Not Religious"

There's an interesting article in the news this week on the growing trend of "spiritual, not religious." The phrase rang a bell with me and it occurred to me that I had read "I am not religious" over and over on MckMama's blog before I saw the light.

Anyhow, here's a link to the article and just a few of the things I thought could relate to it.

Are there dangers in being 'spiritual but not religious'?

"I'm spiritual but not religious."

It's a trendy phrase people often use to describe their belief that they don't need organized religion to live a life of faith.

But for Jesuit priest James Martin, the phrase also hints at something else: egotism.

"Being spiritual but not religious can lead to complacency and self-centeredness," says Martin, an editor at America, a national Catholic magazine based in New York City.

Here are just a few places MckMama references not being religious (most are live links, so quoting the meat):

From Peace:

What I am about to give is not some blithe request or statement to pass time….really, from the bottom of my heart, I beseech you to pray for Stellan!!!

Pass along our request to your small group, post it on your blog, start it on the prayer chain at your church, put it in the bulletin, and just pray!! And, if you do not consider yourself “religious” (then, for one, you are in good company because I am not “religious,” either...I just have a radical, personal relationship with the Living Christ!!) and praying does not come naturally for you, then just be alone in a room and be quiet before God. He wants to know you and He wants to change your life!!!!

From Good Friday:

I am not religious at all!

No, I mean, seriously. I’m not. I do not follow a religion but rather a Person. I follow Jesus Christ.

Last (but definitely not least), there's Gospel. Truth. Again. This is the cached version, so feel free to go ahead and help yourself to reading this one. It's the long explanation on why church, etc, doesn't matter much in the big picture to MckMama. In true MckMama fashion, there's too much there to copy over here.

Funny?

There is a new video up on Vimeo. I know some people have already "seen" it, but for those who haven't, here you go:

Mom!? from Jennifer McKinney on Vimeo.

What do you think? Funny?

Inappropriate

In light of this comment from a MckMama reader:

For example, my son said to me, “Mommy! My PENIS IS SO HUGE! After he played with it and inadvertently gave himself an erection.

Hows THAT for inappropriateness? I may just blog about it!

I thought this topic might be apropos. What things are inappropriate or off limits on a mommy blog?

A new post

Hello, all! It's been a while, huh? I have been trying to walk a line - not nitpick every fault and only post the things that are glaring lies. Unfortunately, I had Disqus set to stop comments at 7 days, so comments cut off this morning. Sorry about that!

Here's a new post for your comments!!

Oh, edited to add: I am a busy person outside of MWOP and I certainly do miss things. If you have something I haven't written about that you would like to guest post, please let me know in the comments and leave your email! I think hearing from other perspectives would be very interesting!