I thought it was hilarious but I'd also had a couple of bourbons before hand and
was in the mood for some levity. And as my wife and I, who were trying to space
at the beginning of marriage, are an advertisement for his slogan, "Use NFP: It
Doesn't Work," as we had our baby 2 days shy of our 9 month wedding anniversary,
I really found it hilarious. His piece reminds me of what the journalist Rod
Dreher has said about his own experiences of NFP. He and his wife had heard all
these rosy and wonderful stories about NFP and how wonderful it was and then
they got married and reality was much different for them. It was hard and tough
and he felt a little duped. Something like this piece would do well to
demonstrate the difficulties in a humorous way I think.

But providentialists (without senses of humor) always get me down too Krista!
Have there been some recent articles by providentialists that have gotten you
down? When faced with providentialists you can always make up a new papal
encyclical, "Familias Prudentia," (Latin scholars please forgive me) that states
that providentialism is a mortal sin! It would be fun to see their faces!

Also, can I ask an unrelated question or perhaps it is related. I am sure many
here are practicing attachment parenting, etc. My wife has been ecological
breastfeeding our daughter as well. She's sleeping in bed with us. (She's 5
months old). But does the push for ecological breastfeeding and attachment
parenting sometimes bleed into a similar absolutism as providentialism? Meaning
that any other way is considered less holy or less virtuous, dare I say even
sinful? Also, can the CCL and the La Leche League paint too rosy a picture of
ecological breastfeeding? My wife doesn't need 14 hours of sleep a day and so
the idea of her putting herself down for a nap everytime Gianna needs to sleep
seems a little excessive and over the top. I wonder if the frustrations of
reality here relative to the theory proposed by CCL and La Leche League are
similar to the frustrations some of us experienced with the reality of NFP
relative to the rosy picture painted sometimes. Thoughts? (And
none of that is meant to be accusatory...I just raise it as a mildly frustrated
husband of a frustrated and tired wife who is finding the CCL approach a little
lacking in practicality...)

"K. Cornish Scott" <kcornishscott@...> wrote:
Hm. Perhaps I'm the only one without a sense of
humour these days, after being smacked in the head
with the providentialist Hahn's one too many times.

But parts of it *were* funny.

Krista


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