I am just really taken with Jesus teaching
about hurting children.
This is not about God, but if anyone wants to make it about that... the bible clearly makes a statement that Jesus said
about hurting children.
And somehow, even after hearing horror stories
about hurt children, you will walk away more deeply in love with humanity.
And soon enough, I became really nervous
about hurting my child.
Not exact matches
Every Sunday morning while the rest of the world is snoozing, you're up scouring the web for a
children's message or talking to Ol' Edith Barkley who calls to beef
about the bulletin or the cookie crumbs in the church hall or how much her bunions
hurt.
Reading all the books
about 2012, and listening to all the doom and gloom sermons, attending all the prayer meetings
about the end of the world, and watching the Discovery channel special
about Mayan calendars and aliens from space and Egyptian pyramid tunnels, OR loving our neighbors, serving our spouses, teaching our
children, working hard at our jobs, and helping where people are
hurting?
You talk
about forgiveness, what
about the
hurting spouse who now has to pick up the pieces with
children and carry on while their spouse abandoned his home to live in «bliss» with his new soulmate
I read Jesus» words
about turning the other cheek over and over, and yet, I can't get around the truth that, if I were to see a
child being
hurt (including my own
children), I would do anything to stop it.
I worry
about turning the Bible into a
children's story book,
about helping the tinies to engage with Scripture and wrestle and ask questions, and then I can't bring myself to read
about Abraham's near - sacrifice of his son, Issac, on the mountain, no part of me could ever understand that obedience, I admit, I'd probably go to hell before I'd raise a hand to
hurt my
child, I don't understand it at all.
However, some have raised legitimate concerns
about Invisible
Children's strategy and finances, suggesting that IC may do more to
hurt the situation than help it.
None of these so called Christian Conservative hypocrites, including Rant Paul, know nothing
about the workings of Christianity, and God, or they couldn't vote to
hurt children, elderly, and disabled, through their cuts, while kissing billionaire butt.
He immediately addressed the issue upon taking the pulpit Sunday, speaking for nearly eight minutes
about the challenge of raising
children and denying he had
hurt to his daughter.
Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read
about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally
hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the
child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»
From being a helpless baby he progressed to adulthood, where he was capable of holding down a job, getting married and having
children (should he so choose), making and keeping friends, earning and spending and saving money, respecting confidences, theorizing
about the origins of things, separating fancy from fact, getting angry without having to
hurt others, caring for others without needing to possess them.
A big part of what I got at with the post
about how hard it is to parent a seventh grader is that it
hurts to parent your
child through things that
hurt you.
One reason we are so clear
about, and free to «judge», behaviors that
hurt children is that we identify with the
child and naturally side against bullies (be they misguided parents, uncaring corporations, power - driven governments, etc.).
Of course, it's a perfectly safe toy that doesn't have any actual heating or gas elements, so you don't have to worry
about your
child getting
hurt when he or she pretends to grill for the whole family!
The documentary shows how growing up in a hyper - sexualized culture
hurts our
children and presents some pretty shocking stories and statistics
about what tweens and teens are doing.
Young
children can be both curious
about and very jealous of small babies and require constant supervision not to
hurt them.
I remember everybody talking
about how great breastfeeding was throughout my life - and I knew I would always breastfeed my
children - but nobody ever warned me that it was going to
hurt so bad - and be so demanding.
Dr. Laura talks passionately
about how these actions impact the
child and shares what parents can do if they are found in a situation where they do «pop» a
child to prevent an action, i.e. — to stop from getting
hurt, in danger, out in public, etc. to explain what happened and repair that relationship with your
children.
You may be worried
about not doing it right,
hurting the
child in any way or even whether you will be judged as an inadequate father if you make a mistake.
We read stories
about unattended
children getting
hurt by objects as benign as a paperclip, how parents get arrested for allowing their
children to go outside and play alone, and how it's important that we're actively engaged with our
children most of the day.
«All of this felt like a punch to the stomach, but the jab that
hurt the most were the numbers around
children,» said Kate Maehr, executive director of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which supplies
about 600 food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters.
Others see it as a good punishment when a
child is
about to get
hurt or finds themselves in a dangerous situation (running across a parking lot or into a street perhaps).
When you think
about the fact that very young
children especially can't exactly tell you that their head
hurts or may make an exam difficult because they get cranky or tired or act out in a way that you can't determine «normal» behavior, it makes sense that a CT scan could be especially helpful in diagnosing brain injuries.
Learn
about how to nurture your
child's ability to fall asleep without outside assistance and how sleep associations can help or
hurt your
child's sleep.
They are very heavily invested in making sure the customers are happy and if they were giving out bad advice
about formula preparation that was causing
children to become malnourished, that would most certainly
hurt their bottom line.
Deep inside, the
child is just repeating the behavior and words he has learned at home and doesn't really care if someone gets
hurt, because why would he since nobody around him cares
about his feelings?
Talking
about your expectations for your
child's behavior will have more impact as your
child gets older, but it never
hurts to talk
about it even with young
children.
It's normal to worry
about your
child's future and to worry
about your
child getting
hurt.
It can be daunting to think
about all the things that can
hurt or kill your
child.
If you're worried
about your
child getting
hurt, remember this: It's going to happen.
Talk
about the bad behavior, not the
child when disciplining: («Hitting
hurts people.»
This means that your
child can feel free to pull themselves up and walk along without you having to worry
about them tipping over and
hurting themselves.
The danger here is that if you think a
child is doing something intentionally to bother you or
hurt you, you're going to respond a lot differently than if you see it as a behavior that isn't
about you.
The emotional pain of longer - term miscarriages, and the untold numbers of mothers and fathers who keep silent
about their
hurt, make this form of
child loss especially cruel.
Even though
children are clearly
hurt and affected by their parent's infidelity, your narrative can be very confusing to a
child, who may then be confused
about their other parent's feelings towards them.
I'm 28 weeks now with my first
child, and scared
about giving birth... I will probably go for a C - section that doesn't
hurt as bad as natural birth.
She gets jealous and
hurts because she wants her
child to do those things, or at least something she can brag
about.
How well
children cope with change, stress, loss and uncertainty depends greatly on how securely bonded they are, what we teach them to believe
about themselves, how connected they feel, and how much safety they are given to release and heal their emotional
hurts.
It might be that our
child falls down, and has a big cry over what looks like a small
hurt, because the are actually not just crying
about the present moment, but releasing some feelings from past upsets that they didn't cry
about at the time.
You may have to deal with nosy neighbors and relatives, who know nothing
about home schooling and who think you are
hurting your
children by home schooling them.
Don't put so much weight on making him «
hurt» that you're not thinking
about trying to get your
child to learn a new behavior.
It will keep your
child safe inside their crib, and you won't have to worry
about them being
hurt or getting into something while you sleep.
It saddens me to hear of many adoptions having struggles because a birthmother feels lied to
about the openness they will receive based on their conversations during pregnancy, or how an adoptive mom and birth
child have been left in the
hurt of not receiving a birthday package as promised.
And then I tried to explain that while some mothers with postpartum depression might have intrusive thoughts
about injuring their
children, that does not mean that they will, in fact,
hurt their
children.
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Hurt?
We can help by talking to our toddlers
about kindness, showing sympathy and care when teddies «get
hurt», playing role - play doctor / nurse games and talking to them
about other people's feelings if they've
hurt or upset another
child.
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