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« Previous Entries Sunday, March 30th, 2008Children’s Museums and Spiritual Formation
Yesterday we took Emma to a local children’s museum. She calls the place the “museum house” and begs to go there. Basically it’s a place where the kids get to “play” with all sorts of educational installations that supposedly teach them about gravity, light, sound, wind… Mike had never been, so […]
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008Rethinking Discipline
Thinking out loud here on the topic of discipline. I know that there are different meanings of the word depending on one’s intent and purposes, but I sometimes wonder if we restrict what we mean by the term too much in certain circumstances.
The etymology of “discipline” takes us to the Latin terms referring to […]
N.T. Wright for Children?
I finished reading N.T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope recently and have been pondering its implication the last few days. This is one of those must read sorts of books if one cares about defining and developing a biblical view of salvation and Christian hope. Wright explores here the concept that the hope for […]
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Children, Violence, and Veggie Tales
This series of rambling questions is posted in the “why yes, I do have a toddler” category.
I am not a fan of violence and I try to prevent exposing my child to situations that model violence. That said, I have to wonder at some of the strategies to avoid exposing kids to violence and/or […]
You Rebel Scum
I’ve been following an interesting discussion about authority over at Adventures in Mercy. While the bulk of the discussion deals primarily with parenting (and there is some pretty scary stuff out there), the tendency of some Christians to see any questioning as rebellion surfaced as well. The assumption is that God places all […]
Friday, December 21st, 2007Spanking Continued…
Okay perhaps I am really really stupid to create a separate post for this, but I wanted to address a few of the common objections raised in my recent post on spanking. I’ve addressed the issue in general before (here, here, and here), so here I just want to address three common rationales others […]
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007Discipline and Violence
Reason number umpteenbazillion and one for why spanking should be illegal - Child Killed for Failing to Say “Please”
This outrages me on so many levels. To even begin to assume that getting a child to do what you want justifies doing violence to them is just so utterly sad.
Sippy Cup Exposé
So to combine my mommy blogging and my rants on gender issues, I give you the Sippy Cup Exposé. I was looking at Emma’s sippy cups recently and noticed that we had a set of Playtex sippy cups that seriously played into gender stereotypes. The cups are pink and blue. The […]
Friday, August 24th, 2007Responsibility
I get rather annoyed when I hear people talking about how irresponsible youth are these days. Oh, I admit that there are teenagers who are self-centered and flaky, but so are many adults. It’s just that teenagers can be blamed and have rules and laws imposed on them to make them shape up […]
Thursday, August 9th, 2007Poison Me Elmo
If you are at all aware of the news or have children and have received emails from 50 different friends about it, you have heard about the recent recall by Fisher-Price and Mattel of over 1 million toys due to excessive lead content. Then today the Chicago Tribune reported on some toys that are […]
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007Adventures in Parenting
On a perhaps not lighter, but at least different note…
So this is what it means to be a mom…
Yesterday Mike was watching Emma down in the basement while I got to take an uninterrupted shower. As I was getting dressed, I hear them come upstairs and Emma is screaming hysterically. I run out […]
The Good Shepherd and his Dinosaurs
So I got to hang out with the kids in church today. We only have a handful of kids that are all pre-school age and we take turns in the kid’s room during church. There are many many things I dislike about that system, but at the moment its the best we can […]
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