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Lol. I was curious and just had to try... and it worked!

House Speaker Mike Johnson might know. His son monitors him via Covenant Eyes. Mikey says he's a Christian, so why would a good Christian need a porn monitor?

Sorry - I am late to this but I am not sure this is true. I was taught with Abeka curriculum. There is a poem by Tennyson called Song of the Brook and back then, Tennyson was well-taught in Abeka. I know Abeka has a unit on the poem and there is some curriculum around it. Penmanship assignments weren't like this either. I know things could have changed, but since there is a lot of Tennyson and other traditional writers and poets (and a high school unit on that particular poem), I would bet this was a poetry assignment on that particular poem for younger years. I am not sure this is true and nothing Reddit fundie watchers should be taken as truth without actually confirming it. It's based on Tennyson's poem of the same name. There is also high school curriculum. Someone on Reddit saw that and assumed it was copied. It reads like a child's poem. Here is the video. What was sad to me is that part of the video shows the older three doing a performance for the rest of the family. My nieces, nephews and kids drove us nuts doing these - over and over and over. But we never filmed it and put it on YouTube for the whole world to see.

You just solved two long-standing mysteries: 🥇🏆🎊

I wasn't really sure where to put this but this article on women choosing to have large families fascinated me, and in some respects provided some illumination into the "pro-life but anti-support" camp. It fascinates me that these women - predominantly better off, educated, with marriages that are apparently working for them - cannot see that it might not all "just work out". Husbands die. Children are born with or develop medical conditions or disabilities that require long term expensive care. Marriages end when you least expect it. Careers end when you least expect it. The other part I found really, really amusing was this: Is there any evidence whatsoever that younger siblings - presumably not subject to the same duty as older siblings, so missing out on that sense of belonging - develop mental illness as a higher rate than older siblings? This theory sounds like a total crock. Yeah, those books have been and continue to be written. And happiness in families doesn't track with family size. And as for babies being a natural antidepressant- tell me you know nothing about and have never experienced PPD without telling me. FFS.

You know I'd settle for house arrest with no phone or internet connection. Hard to rally the troops when you can't post...

Ok. ISB joyride time. Is the poem about: 1. Finding out that her ex-husband has a new partner? 2. Finding out that she's been dumped by her boyfriend for one of her friends? 3. Finding out that Lauren has a new job? 4. Finding out that one of her Plexus downline has managed to take most of her "customers" and is now Platinum?

JB and Michelle were happy when Josh married Anna because now he was her problem. Once married, if Josh got in trouble it was due to his wife’s shortcomings, not due to his upbringing. Yeah, they were happy to foist blame to Anna. I’m not sure JB would have thought Josh was viewing csam online. He may have thought Josh might look at adult porn, but figured that was Anna’s responsibility to monitor. JB probably figured Josh was out of the way at the car lot and out of the public eye and that’s why JB set him up in business there. No need to really monitor him much as it was low key, nothing too exciting for the media to latch on to. Until….

Another Pelaiah sighting in the reel their aunt posted. I'm not usually that interested in the Bowers family, but this whole thing has me intrigued...

Ah, smart thinking! I didn't check that out And yes, they have something to do with the school at church, but I don't think either one of them are teachers (as in qualified educators with real degrees). From the GLBC homepage:

I think he hopes he will be thrown in jail and fantasizes that his base will be in uproar and start rioting in the streets, overthrowing the government so he can take over and start his dictatorship.

Also it looks like Jed & Katey, John & Abbie, and JB, Michelle and all the kids still at home are on the guest list. So is Nathan & Esther.

Are they teachers? They started getting to know each other last August working at a school. I guess I wouldn't be too surprised if they were. Austin has a niece from one of his older half siblings that is a teacher. Go RSVP and type Lauren Duggar.

Tayte and Martha had a non-juried, pre-trial hearing on Aprill 11 in Colquitt County court for an unspecified matter. Presumably, a divorce or custody issue, based on the observations of other folks here. I've been off of this board for a year, and am still playing catch up with a few threads. I'm not remotely surprised about Martha, other than the fact it took 10 years to come to a head. Frankly, I suspect that she won't be the only Morton clocking a divorce in the years to come. Tayte and Martha were an awkward pairing at best. I don't think it was arranged in the same sense as some of the S'Morton unions seemed to be, but Martha was in such a weird place in the family timeline. Age-wise, she was in the unfortunate position of being born between the oldest Morton sibs who had VERY early marriages in the thick of their fundy connections (except Addie), and the younger sibs who seemed to have far more choice, and enjoyed the illusion of secular entertainment/socialization outside of the home church. She didn't have an obvious partner waiting for her (presumably, none of the Campana boys were interested), and she apparently wasn't allowed to drift around the estate as an adjunct babysitter/dog breeder/entrepreneur like Addie was before her marriage (also to a much younger man). I suspect Martha will end up married off again, probably to a significantly older man. Especially if the elder Mortons make their move to Paraguay permanent.

These women are in desperate need of real therapy!

I wonder how much weight Katie's opinion had in Travis' decision to hit the road on a bus without his pregnant wife and toddler. I think it might help Katie if she talked to the wife of the guy who Trav is touring with. It might help her with her irrational jealousy.

It's down there with Vogon poetry. IYKYK. 😁

I’d be so jealous if I was her. Not because of other women, but because I’d be stuck at home with the kids while my husband gets to go out the house and work a fulfilling job (and the kind of job most people would only do until they have a family). Life changes once you have kids, and for me that was okay because I was in my mid thirties and had lived my own life and experienced and seen a lot of the world. But Katie hasn’t, and Travis hasn’t either. And now he gets to do something fun and cool while she’s stuck at home.

This! Also, while husbands cannot take over the birthing part, they can still do a lot! They can do all the chores to let the new mom recover, do the cooking and laundry and cleaning, take parental leave and take care of the baby 100% (not just “babysitting” a clean and happy baby for an hour)… worth a lot more and showing a lot more appreciation than some ring or necklace!

That's exactly the point. She doesn't have authority to take any action against him. It's just a way for her to feel like she's holding him accountable (and for them to seem like they're "above reproach" in their fundy circle). And now he's sitting in jail for proving how useless software like that is.

It's not really new. But I always found it a bit... I don't know how to explain it, no offense but it's like paying for the job. Women gives a child to her husband, then he (or his parents!) rewards her. Very patriarchal. For me, the child is the reward for a mother. It's nice to bring the new mom flowers or food she likes or whatever, to make her feel fine, but an expensive jewel? Wow, were is the 50000 dollar jewelry Alyssa and Erin *pushed*? Giving birth is hard, pregnancy is hard, but what a new mom needs is to be cared, so she can rest and heal and enjoy the baby. Instead of buying a ring, make diner and laundry every single day for weeks... That is a present.

It’s so odd as well. My husband and I don’t do finances separately ever since we’ve moved in together and he a kid, so a 10k gift would come out of our joint money, which means it’s basically me gifting myself from my own money. If one of us wants something expensive (and 10k would definitely be in that category!) we discuss if it is worth it and makes sense financially. I’d be pretty mad if he took 10k out of our joint account to buy some stupid necklace for me. These kinds of gifts are not just a waste of money, they show a pretty skewed financial dynamic in those families as well.

Don’t mind me, I’m still stuck on #reprobate I mean, terrible poetry is common but calling out the other woman as a reprobate while squatting in a childbirthing power pose is truly exceptional. #bitchychristianFTW

She didn’t get those reports, because he set up a separate drive. I do wonder how many men who are monitored through Covenant Eyes and similar software just get another phone. Obviously not to view CSA, but legal stuff (not even necessarily porn, just anything they may not want their wives to know about). It would be the easiest way to circumvent the “accountability” thing without too much technical knowledge. Depending on their job, they could just say it’s a phone from work if their wife ever noticed.

I was only referring to myself. Obviously my daughter’s needs came before my own and we sucked it up and co-slept until she was ready. But man, those kicks were something else. 😂