Tag Archives: equal

It’s my orgasm, not his [part 1]

This is a guest post written by Jean Kamps. My dear friend recently shared a story with me. It highlighted one of the issues she and I have talked about before in such a perfect way. She’s given me permission to share some things with you. Her name, for the purposes of anonymity here, willContinue reading “It’s my orgasm, not his [part 1]”

Practically Parenting our Equals: Self-control

This post is part of a parenting series that started with a reader question. Before reading this post, I recommend that you first read the introductory post and the post about discipline.  Something that Brian and I hear is that we have to get our kids under control. It usually happens when someone sees oneContinue reading “Practically Parenting our Equals: Self-control”

How Equality Changed my Religion

My family/clan came out last week with the news that we have left our conservative evangelical denominations and become convinced Quakers — and we are gathering together to be a new little church! And nothing could possibly have surprised us more. Since we moved to Mexico, we’ve been searching for a church home. We wentContinue reading “How Equality Changed my Religion”

Practically Parenting Our Equals: Discipline

Truth As I said in the introductory post to this series, because we believe that our children are on their own individual journeys with God, we do not punish them. In a way, parents prepare their children for relationship with God – children who had very terrible relationships with their fathers, for example, often struggleContinue reading “Practically Parenting Our Equals: Discipline”

Practically Parenting Our Equals: Settling In

This introductory post is part of the series inspired by the reader request: I’d love for you to write about the practical working out of viewing your children as equals. Perhaps even a contrast from how you parented before!  Disclaimer The first question you might have if you’re reading this to get ideas for your ownContinue reading “Practically Parenting Our Equals: Settling In”

My Experience with Baby Wise

If you have read my post about our parenting paradigm shift, then some of this will be familiar to you. This post is a detailed account of my experience with the parenting book On Becoming Baby Wise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep. Please note: I have several friends whom I deeply admire asContinue reading “My Experience with Baby Wise”

Egalitarian Parenting: Our Transformation

I’d love for you to write about the practical working out of viewing your children as equals. Perhaps even a contrast from how you parented before! This amazing reader request, after my post about the equality of children, has inspired several posts. In this post I talk about how my family’s parenting philosophy was transformed. OurContinue reading “Egalitarian Parenting: Our Transformation”

How Egalitarian Marriage Affects Parenting

  I was discussing freedom in Christ with some close friends a few weeks ago and one of them, a friend who was brought up in one of the most strictly hierarchical homes I know of, wrote this: “We are all equals… Even our children. I am not their ruler, their owner, their master; theyContinue reading “How Egalitarian Marriage Affects Parenting”

Headship in Context

The single biggest question Brian and I had and that we hear in regards to equal partnership in marriage is: “What about the verses that say that the man is the ‘head’ of the woman?” There is something very, VERY important missing in the traditional understanding of the concept that men are meant to beContinue reading “Headship in Context”