  (a segment from urlLink my SprogBlog ) The Montrose Library program really fell apart, so now I'm in search of a new branch.
Today was my first time to go to the Heights' Tuesday storytime, and I got swarmed by a few moms who seemed desperate for conversation. As one in particular talked to me, I thought to myself that this is how wide my eyes would be and how protruding my words would fall out if I didn't have blogs.
Thank God for this little social outlet. I've been discussing that the organizers of BloggerCon II didn't have any place in their conference for mom-blogs. It seems that, after being removed from functioning society in the real world, moms are being removed from it in the blogging world as well. How have we as a culture come to segregate childraising from other roles in our world so completely? Even at the library, I've noticed an overwhelming majority of moms (and nannies) who are foreign.
I can only guess that their cultural upbringing taught them to trust public institutional offerings, especially for rearing children, while our own has taught us that public programming is for poor people. But children were never meant to be raised in isolation, and the otherwise suburb-induced, garage-style of child raising that makes blogs so valuable for moms everywhere, must also be affecting our children. 
