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You all may be familiar with the brouaha a few weeks ago when Yale Law professor Amy Chua released a book about how Chinese parents — Moms in particular — are superior to American parents. “Tiger Moms” she glossed it. Finally…. P.J. O’Rourke has gotten around to putting this issue in its proper perspective in [...] Gape in to the face of evil for post-modern Britons. The UK as lost its way… From the UK Daily Mail: A Christian couple facing a foster parenting ban because of their views on homosexuality were told by a court yesterday that gay rights ‘should take precedence’ over their religious beliefs. Owen and Eunice [...] What Are You Prepared to Do? The sermon at my church this morning was on love and the extent to which we were prepared to go to show love to family and friends (next week is love towards strangers) building off the Scripture verse… “Greater love has no man than this, that he [...] I remember seeing reruns of Bugs Bunny or Milton Berle in drag as a kid. But this is a bridge too far. Part of being a parent is to help set your kids on the right course — especially at age 4 and 5. The Invictus “captain of my soul” worldview is dubious enough [...] The village has had its day. It’s high time for parents to reassert control over their children — all aspects on our children’s lives — full frontal assault. I don’t know much about California’s “Parent trigger” law allowing parents to demand a public school be run as a charter school. The union hates it [...] This is why our society is so messed up. Come on prosecutors — do the right thing and drop this case, arrest the kids and allow this father to sue their parents — and fire that damn bus driver. Sure you CAN charge him — but was that really the intent behind the law? [...] Absolutely disgusting… Long Island Man Arrested For Defending Home With AK-47 Says Many Gang Members Were Coming After His Family He fired four shots into his lawn and was arrested by Police for “reckless endangerment”. According to Police it’s not enough if someone (or 20 or so in this case) verbally threaten you and your [...] I’ve never liked Ayn Rand — and this tongue in cheek story reminds me why… When little Aiden toddled up our daughter Johanna and asked to play with her Elmo ball, he was, admittedly, very sweet and polite. I think his exact words were, “Have a ball, peas [sic]?” And I’m sure you [...] And the Bible is right: 3 Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from Him. 4 Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one’s youth. Psalm 127:3-4 (NAS) Well OK, it’s social science, but there’s a great item in Saturday’sThe Wall Street Journal [...] Abused child or no big deal? Meet Abby Sunderland, the 16 year old girl who was “missing” for 3 days as she tried to sail around the world solo. Her parents are catching flak for putting their “child” in “danger” — for essentially being bad parents. From The Guardian: Sunderland had activated an [...] Do well get punished. Welcome to base camp 4 on the descent into the hole in which Western Civilization is sinking. From Toronto’s National Post: In yet another nod to the protection of fledgling self-esteem, an Ottawa children’s soccer league has introduced a rule that says any team that wins a game by more [...] A man in FLorida was jailed and fine $150 for repeatedly calling 911 on his mother for stealing his beer. Share on Facebook The last kid from Indonesia who smoked is our dear leader. This kid smokes 2 packs a day. I don’t know whether to be appalled or amazed. I think I’m both. From the Daily Mail: Taking a deep drag on his cigarette while resting on the steering wheel of his truck, he looks like [...] I’m proud to go to church with this man and humbled by his example. Kermit Alexander was a DB in the 1960s most famous for injuring Gale Sayers. This story is unbelievable — and yet it happened. We saw the kids in church a few weeks ago. Well worth your 10 minutes. Share [...] So we’re getting ready for school this morning and my 10 year old son looks at my 4 year old (pictured above) son and says, “You’re mean.” 4-year old sets his face and says “Why? Because of this?!?” (followed by a kick to the left shin) “Or because of this?!?” (swiftly followed by a [...] What are your or the top 5 songs about mothers… (are there 5?) In no particular… Glenn Danzig’s Mother is of course the beginning and the end of songs about Mothers so outside of that… 1.The Beatles “Julia” written by John Lennon about his mother who passed away in the 1950s. 2. U2 [...] From the YouTube page: Jennifer and Jeff have something they wanted to share with everyone…and because analogies make things easier and Jeff is an admitted Star Wars dork…we thought this might be appropriate…Thanks! h/t: BoingBoing Share on Facebook I have been amused and sickened by the latest campaign of N.O.W. (Nat’l Organization of Weenie-haters) to smear Focus on the Family — the sponsor of the infamous Pam/Tim Tebow ad — you know the one that argues that having a child is a good thing — so he can then abuse you. Now conservatives [...] |
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