Read moreConfession to trusted friends and to God is healthy. It’s normal and natural to talk about your struggles with people who care about you. The indispensable truth to grasp, however, is that confession does not initiate cleansing in your life. We’ve already been cleansed “once for all” through the onetime blood sacrifice that needs no repeating.
Read moreDA: You are talking about so many different levels and layers with the question “is it hyper-sexualized?” Compared to my understanding from Tremper (Longman III) about the Assyrian and Babylonian cultures, no, we’re not hyper-sexualized. If you compare where we are even in the context of other modern cultures’ engagement with sexuality, we’re still somewhat restrained, there is still some regard. Who’s the judge of the term “hyper-sexualization?”
Seth Godin: Stop Stealing Dreams
This is, without a doubt, the best grasp of what needs to be fixed about the mess that passes as our education system I have ever seen. I started reading it just to see what he had to say and ended up not being able to stop reading until I had read the entire book in one sitting.
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Disclaimer: There ARE many, MANY home school families which are simply that – families, often with one parent a former professional educator, which have chosen to educate their children at home. We can certainly debate the relative merits of those systems! But, in all of that exploration, it needs to be understood that this post IS NOT ABOUT THOSE HOME SCHOOLERS!!!
Read moreRead moreSo what’s keeping kids indoors? Fear of abduction is a big one, followed by worries about kids getting hit by cars and bullies, surveys have found.
Those fears have created legions of overprotective parents rearing “wimps” who are unable to cope with the ups and downs of life because they have no experience doing so, said Hara Estroff Marano, the New York-based author of the book A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting.
Via: The Atlantic
Read moreHere I was, seeing the flesh-and-blood results of the kind of parenting that my peers and I were trying to practice with our own kids, precisely so that they wouldn’t end up on a therapist’s couch one day. We were running ourselves ragged in a herculean effort to do right by our kids-yet what seemed like grown-up versions of them were sitting in our offices, saying they felt empty, confused, and anxious.
via www.gizmag.com.
Read moreFor some time now, it’s been one of those “well-known facts” that playing video games increases one’s hand-eye coordination… much to the consternation of parents and spouses trying to convince family members that their obsessive gaming has no redeeming value.
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The God Who Speaks – July 7, 2006
I was gearing up for soul-restoration, not issues-exploration. But Cam is usually right, so I kept my eyes open and asked the Lord for a strategy. Sure enough, not long into my “breather”, up came some “stuff” that wants to bully me towards isolation. How do you rest when old insecurities, temptations, or “demons” rise up when you finally still your heart? Or am I the only one who didn’t automatically get all his shortcomings washed away at baptism? If not, read on:
Coolest Kid Birthday Party Printable Birthday Invitations:
Read more“Just something I thought would help out with the craziness that comes with planning your kiddos party ;)”
Home School Resources in Calgary – Stores:
Read more“Canadian Home Education Resources
Specializing in home schooling materials.
108 – 1289 Highfield Cr SE, Calgary, AB T2G 5M2
Phone: (403) 243-4443 Fax: (403) 243-9727
http://www.canadianhomeeducation.com”
