I'm Matt Long and this is Infants on Thrones philosophy mingled with story.

And on this episode Tom Perry and I sit down and talk about our approaches to parenting beyond Mormonism.

What we've learned, what we know, what we don't know.

But first here's a little story I told a group of friends that were over the other day.

The Myth of Reality.

And the story I want to tell you is about the land of belief, where this group of people, good people, lived.

We call it the land of belief because you either fell into one of two tribes, either the believers or the non-believers.

And the believers they always started by believing, and the non-believers they would start by disbelieving. And the people

I'm going to tell you about there and that they were in the tribe of the

start by believers. This couple, they eventually were going to have a baby.

And they were too young to have a baby, but that's what was going to happen.

And so the thing that they always told each other and they thought this was so clever is they'd say, well, now it's real.

And so that's what they called her. They called her reality, their little baby.

Now reality was born and a few days later as often happens there's the local

you know the local mystic comes over and he blesses the children with gifts.

They're very excited to see what gifts reality would be given because they were

usually given three different gifts.

Reality's mother was blessed with kindness.

It was one of her gifts.

Her father was blessed with wit and other things. And so they're very excited is what is reality going to be blessed

with and the mystic came and did his little ritual thing and he said reality I bless you with awe.

Aw.

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