I’ve been discussing theology with some cyberfriends, and someone brought up an idea I’ve seen before – because there’s uncertainty about these questions that can never be definitively resolved, both Christians and atheists have faith.  I think that misses the mark.  I would say this instead.  Faced with uncertainty, Christians have faith, while atheists have tolerance for the answer “We don’t know (yet).”

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As I read further in Babywise, I’m attempting to run down some of his “citations” (I use the term loosely.)  In my Googling, I’ve come upon the excellent blog Unbecoming Baby Lies, which maybe has already done my job for me, but what the hell.  Read her, and read me – there’s plenty of Ezzo debunking to go around!  An excellent place to start is her hilarious conversion of Babywise infant management to  a system of husband management: Growing Husbands God’s Way.

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A public service announcement: if you have little girls, think twice before giving them bubble baths.  Poor Claire suffered terribly over the past 4 days after taking a bubble bath, and grabbing the bottle and dumping the entire contents into the tub.  Withholding pee because it hurt led to withholding everything, which led to a delightful initiation into manual disimpaction for me on Thursday night.  Claire’s evocative metaphor as she looked back on the experience with painful pee was, “It was dark black and it had fire in it, that was the problem.”