{"id":3539,"date":"2011-03-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/03\/confronting-our-culture-of-narcissism-as-only-a-mom-can.html"},"modified":"2011-03-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T12:00:00","slug":"confronting-our-culture-of-narcissism-as-only-a-mom-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/03\/confronting-our-culture-of-narcissism-as-only-a-mom-can.html","title":{"rendered":"Confronting our culture of narcissism as only a Mom can"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Last weekend, I saw this gut churning celebration of the superiority of womanhood at all costs.\u00a0 It was an article just oozing with glee over a mother\u2019s\u00a0decision to chuck her husband and ditch her kids in order to spend a life focused on the eternal divinity of the Me.\u00a0 I took some issues with it<\/a>, focusing on the laughable proposition put forth that this was just righting the hypocrisy of our age, where men can leave their families all over the place and be celebrated for the cause.\u00a0 Somehow I missed that men who divorce wives and abandon children are considered anything other than scum in our society; an appraisal I\u2019m more than happy to apply across gender lines. <\/p>\n

Anyhoo, in the miracle that is the Internet, a real, honest to goodness Mom chimed in and gave me her perspectives.\u00a0 Better yet, she linked to her own blog where she offers that kind of head-smacking logic that a Mother can demonstrate better than anyone.\u00a0 Read it here<\/a>.\u00a0 Best quote of the post:<\/p>\n

\u201cMost kids don\u2019t grow up lamenting that they wish their parents had spent LESS time with them, and most parents don\u2019t look back wishing that they\u2019d missed more of their kids\u2019 childhoods.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In another age I would have laughed at such an obvious statement.\u00a0 Today, I almost weep that there are so many who call themselves enlightened, and yet have no grasp of the truth behind such a clear fact.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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