Last week's tragedy of a 5 - month - old baby becoming entrapped on a luggage belt at the airport have many of us questioning the safety of baby carriers, which
the child was in moments before the accident occurred.
I sometimes wonder who
the child is in that moment... me or one of them... I have yet to spank.
Changing the limbic brain system involves experiences that sharply contradict the emotional expectations when
the child is in the moment usually at their worst behavior.
Not exact matches
A fundraiser for a
children's education non-profit
in Michigan, this anthology
is offered consciously at a
moment when work
is in shorter supply than Americans
are accustomed to.
The film, which
is less than two minutes long, tracks a young girl's transition from
child to adult via key
moments in her life.
«Supporting the needs of our employees
is one of the most important things we do, especially during significant
moments in their lives like having or adopting a
child,» said global human - resources executive Sheri Bronstein.
The defining
moment occurred at a Boys & Girls Club
in Tampa, Fla., where DiBenedetto's nonprofit association, the Tampa Bay Technology Forum,
was unveiling a batch of computers for use by
children who had none.
What everyone seems to agree on, though,
is that this spasm of seriousness
is a new development
in advertising, a
child of this particular
moment in time, and that it, too, shall pass.
Wealthy families start buying their
children's way into elite colleges almost from the
moment they
are born: music lessons, sports equipment, foreign travel («enrichment» programs, to use the all - too - perfect term)-- most important, of course, private - school tuition or the costs of living
in a place with top - tier public schools.
@ Concert: «I believe like a
child that suffering will
be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despi.cable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that
in the world's finale, at the
moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.»
It
's so very difficult to rear a
child that
is disabled to this extent and My heart
is full of joy that he has this
moment in his life... Society can take a lesson from these good people.
Tolkien says it best: «It
is the mark of a good fairy - story, of the higher or more complete kind, that however wild its events, however fantastic or terrible the adventures, it can give to
child or man that hears it, when the «turn» comes, a catch of the breath, a beat and lifting of the heart, near to (or indeed accompanied by) tears, as keen as that given by any form of literary art...
In such stories, when the sudden «turn» comes we get a piercing glimpse of joy, and heart's desire, that for a
moment passes outside the frame, rends indeed the very web of story, and lets a gleam come through.»
For those concerned that men, women,
children, and their future happiness
are being seriously wounded
in all this — and that grave damage
is being done to medical ethics and law — a good place to begin examining the whole «T» phenomenon
is Ryan T. Anderson's recently published study, When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender
Moment.
I think I
was crying for both the
child I had
been in those
moments in someone else's car and the mother I
am now, trying to create a world where girls won't have to feel that particular fear like we did, a world where Isaiah 61
is embodied.
For example, a Heritage Foundation document titled «Time to Repeal Federal Death Taxes: The Nightmare of the American Dream» emphasizes stories that rarely, if ever, happen
in real life: «Small - business owners, particularly minority owners, suffer anxious
moments wondering whether the businesses they hope to hand down to their
children will
be destroyed by the death tax bill,... Women whose
children are grown struggle to find ways to re-enter the work force without upsetting the family's estate tax avoidance plan.»
And these books don't serve up blind patriotism nor
are they revisionist
in scope — the stories put a human face on some of our most tragic
moments and failures as a nation like Japanese internment, the plight of home
children, residential schools, flu epidemics, wars,
child labour, the Halifax explosion, the Acadian expulsion, and so on.
For me, the three most important
moments in the day
are my morning prayer — a habit learned from my parents — our evening family prayer (even when the
children often behave badly!)
Little by little, though the irresistible development of those yearnings you implanted
in me as a
child, through the influence of gifted friends who entered my life at certain
moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings of spirit I owe to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me to undergo: through all these I have
been brought to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside that milieu
in which all
is made one.
I realized
in that
moment that there would
be a whole new generation of
children who would grow up as I did - the collateral damage of yet another hotly contested war.
Yet nevertheless, we train our
children in this myth from the
moment they
are born.
It seems that it
is such a personal necessity that
is understandable why, but not so much why
in public, or that it can't wait until a private
moment between the mother and
child.
What our authors
are saying through all this structure of imagery
is that the obscure birth of a
child to a carpenter's wife
was,
in view of all that came out of it, a decisive
moment in history, when something genuinely new began, and the traffic of two worlds
was initiated, to
be traced by the discerning eye all through the story that
was to follow.
Bibles
in every motel room God on our money
Moments of silence (prayer) before public events Christian cable networks 24/7 Discounts on insurance for
being christian Churches every 6 blocks
in every city over 100,000 Christian bookstores
in every town over 12,000 God
in The Pledge of Allegiance Televangelists 24/7 Christian billboards along the highway advertising Vacation Brainwashing School (VBS) for your
children Federally recognized Christian holiday Radioeveangelists 24/7 Religious organizations
are tax free 75 % of the population claims to
be Christian National day of prayer God
in the National Anthem
To fail to
be one's true human self
is to fail
in maintaining on one's part the right relationship with God
in the divine intention for mankind and at the same
moment a failure
in right relationships with other men and women and
children, characterized as it should
be by the caring, sharing, giving, and receiving which brings about a condition of peace and concord — which
is shalom or abundance of life.
By extension every good deed, every struggle for justice and deliverance from oppression, every effort to care for and show concern about those who
are in need, will
be not merely a reflection of the divine mercy and righteousness but also an instrument for the bringing about of just such shalom or «abundance of life» for God's human
children, So one might go on, almost without ceasing, to show that response
in faith to the action of God
in this vivid
moment has its implications and applications for the whole range of human life and experience.
The
moment some raises the point that
children ideally
are raised
in a home with their own biological mothers and fathers, the cry goes up that this hardly ever happens.
i didn't like what they
were saying and it made me feel like hitting them so i did, i
was not
in the right or the wrong just
in the
moment when the
were running their mouth about all the women they raped and
children they killed they deserved it
in my opinion.
Imagine for a
moment, those of you who have
children in grade school, if your
child came home from school tomorrow, and told you that at school from now on, the
children were the teachers, and the teachers
were going to learn from the
children.
If there
is one area
in which the
children as a group do seem to differ somewhat,
in emotional reactions, from the
children that I meet
in wealthier communities — and even here I would
be very cautious not to overstate this — it
is in their sensitivity to other
children's
moments of anxiety and their acute awareness of emotional fragility and of the tipping point between exhilaration and depression.
Or perhaps your
were thousands of miles away from home,
in an orphanage, and caretakers entered a room carrying a
child you had only seen
in photographs up to that
moment.
From the
moment when, as I have said, the phyletic strands began to reach towards one another, weaving the first outlines of the Noosphere, a new matrix, co-extensive with the whole human group,
was formed about the newly - born human
child — a matrix out of which he can not
be wrenched without incurring mutilation
in the most physical core of his biological
being.
My question
is: If I
was your
child's Sunday School teacher and your
child announced to the class: «My daddy doesn't believe
in God» how can I best show the love of Jesus to your
child in that
moment?
We remark the curious fact that just as, thirty years ago, the churches had about succeeded
in excising Bach and Palestina from the ken of the new generation at the
moment college and high school choirs
were finding them — and church schools, afraid of the recondite reaches of the doctrine of the Lord's Supper, beheld their
children at school singing «0 Magnum Mysterium» and «Ave, Corpus Verum» — so, too, the preaching fashion, having become
in large part the holy branch office of the local psychiatric clinic,
is now confronted with «J.B.,» «The Fall,» «Christmas Oratoria,» and the considerable theological imagery
in «Four Quartets.»
All I can do
in this life
is be happy,
be kind to others, enjoy as many
moments as possible, raise happy, healthy
children that
are productive members of society, and live each day to the fullest.
Therefore,
in recognition of the biological reality that human life begins at the
moment of fertilization, the unborn
child is enti.tled to the protection of the law under all circu.mstances and at every stage of pregnancy.
Therefore,
in recognition of the biological reality that human life begins at the
moment of fertilization, the unborn
child is ent.itled to the protection of the law under all circu.mstances and at every stage of pregnancy.
A holy
moment where they, as your
child,
are being the most vulnerable with you, where they
are holding their heart and soul
in their palms, and asking you to
be their loving parent.
The
child is disobedient and rebellious, and one day, the father got frustrated that
in a
moment of anger he hit the
child over the head with a baseball bat.
And I
was sure that our
children would never cause us a
moment of real worry and I would never
be stupid enough to get us over our heads
in debt.
I
was raised
in a tradition that held that
children were innocent and heaven bound until they became aware of their sins (a fuzzy
moment that
is the source of much terror
in children of a certain age).
Is it in fact the case that I may sacrifice my present interest, genuinely sacrifice it, for the sake of a future ten or twenty years from now, and that it is impossible that I sacrifice my interest, just as genuinely, for the sake of my child's happiness a moment henc
Is it
in fact the case that I may sacrifice my present interest, genuinely sacrifice it, for the sake of a future ten or twenty years from now, and that it
is impossible that I sacrifice my interest, just as genuinely, for the sake of my child's happiness a moment henc
is impossible that I sacrifice my interest, just as genuinely, for the sake of my
child's happiness a
moment hence?
Many times,
children go along with it because they get some enjoyment also, and often some other benefits, such as
in the relationships with the sugar daddies, passing HIV to all the very young girls (who
are at the
moment and for the
moment, very aesthetically pleasing).
«One of the saddest
moments during my time as Education Secretary
was the day I took a call from a wonderfully generous philanthropist who had devoted limitless time and money to helping educate disadvantaged
children in some of the most challenging areas of Britain but who now felt he had no option but to step away from his commitments because his evangelical Christianity meant that he, and his generosity,
were under constant attack.»
Oh, and I definitely
am not talking about «shunning» anybody, but for a known unrepentant sinner to exhibit said sin
in the presence of believers and especially
children might
be cause for shunning, at least
in that
moment.
In the beginning, the
child, despite a desire to learn, will often feel that the lessons and musical exercises
are a constraint imposed on the freedom and attractions of the
moment.»
There
is no
moment in the day, no mundane duty or lesson, unworthy of becoming an opportunity to advance our singular goal: to form our
children into scholars and saints.
Some of the most rewarding
moments in children's and youth ministry for me have
been when I helped a
child to do something she never thought she
was capable of... she just needed a push, a challenge and maybe a little help.
Beth Redman remembers a
moment growing up
in church which further emphasises this: «When I
was very young I saw a song on the overhead
was written by a married couple [Noel and Tricia Richards] and something about that really impacted me... Even as a young
child I knew God
was speaking to me that one day I would do that with my husband too.»
He prayed: «God help them,» but
in the
moment of prayer he switched back to his
child beside the rubbish - dump, and he knew that it
was only for her that he prayed.
«It
's scary like those
children's preaching
moments in church because you don't know what
's going to come out of a
child's mouth»...