«Every first - time mommy - to - be should ask her friends
with children this question: What's the one item you can't live without?
Not exact matches
I would encourage the parents to sit down
with their
child and ask
questions.
After my traditional line of
questioning and selling the great points about the career ahead for anyone lucky enough to get this position, I launched into my full disclosure and she sat staring at me like one does a
child who is walking a fine balance atop a 4 - foot brick wall —
with anticipation, excitement and a heaping does of sheer shock and wonder all mixed together.
Especially when people have
questions like, «What is the best bottle to use
with my
child, or what is the best organic baby wipe, or do I even care about organic baby wipes?»
Six months later, they measured the
child's narcissism (
with questions like «Kids like me deserve something extra»).
To better understand gender equality in the U.S, researchers asked
questions about how
children are currently encouraged to be leaders, talk about their feelings and play
with toys typically associated
with the opposite gender.
Topher C'm on coward answer the
question, why can you interfere
with other peoples
children but you only want your fellow fundies to influence yours?
It is very much like a conversation
with one of my
children when I have answered them repeatedly only to have the
question asked again.
He also used science fiction and
children's stories as literary bridges to explore age - old
questions about sin, forgiveness, and reconciliation
with God.
With our history of ignoring predators within the church and the tens of thousands of American
children who were harmed as a result, I am loathe to let us avoid the
questions due to PC fears.
• Perhaps you noticed the NYU
Child Study Center's
questions target only certain
children, kids somewhere in the A and B range
with potential for getting into a good school.
After rehearsing all his anguished
questions and the gnostic solutions to which he had sometimes turned along the way, he finishes
with a serene prayer to the Beautiful Lady and takes
children as his model.
From a human point of view it seems ridiculous that a human being could torture, maim, and kill others relentlessly during her lifetime or that he could sexually abuse
child after
child with no remorse and then upon a sincere deathbed confession of Jesus Christ as Savior, be granted eternal life, no
questions asked.
@CP: before the age of 24 I buried my Mom and 2
children... tragedy didn't make me believe then and it certainly won't make me believe now... if anything those tragedies made me
question what kind of an evil monster god really is if he allows 3 innocent people to die horrible deaths (my Mom was an avid believer and went to her grave believing she was going to be
with god... it was a comfort for her and eased her mind... I just don't see it as a necessity)
The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar
questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations
with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.
These ideas come from our own childhood, whether good or bad, from the media and from seeing the experiences of our friends and relatives: pushing prams
with sleeping babies along the riverside, teaching our
children to walk, training them how to draw
with crayons rather than eat them, answering cute
questions, making star charts, walking them to school.
Commonly, and understandably, these
questions come up in connection
with schools and the materials to which
children are exposed.
People have the right to leave church and organized religion, they have a right to
question an institution that will do anything to save face even if it means letting
children be harmed (and trust me, there are Priests that have issues
with girls - my mom when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many of the priests used to «hang out»
with the young girls out and girls have been abused), churches that are not practicing social justice.
He deals at length
with a
question that is often posed by
children, but that is not a childish at all: What was God doing before he made the world?
Then it was the older woman, his mother's mother, who lost her temper at Fania, «and spat terrible words at her in Russian or Polish mixed
with Yiddish,» while his mother «sat there like a scolded
child, and as her mother shot one venomous
question at her after another, all of them soaked and sizzling
with sibilants, she said nothing in reply.»
The problem is that their «Jesus» doesn't ask them any hard
questions; but is more like a
child's «invisible friend» who is always on thier side whenever they find themselves in a conflict
with others.
This year, Hillary Clinton has better policy proposals to help improve the lives of women,
children, and families than Donald Trump, whose pro-life convictions are lukewarm at best, and whose mass deportation plan would rip hundreds of thousands of families apart, whose contempt for Latinos, Muslims, refugees and people
with disabilities would further marginalized the «least of these» among us, and whose support for torture and targeting civilians in war call into
question whether Christians who support him are truly pro-life or simply anti-abortion.
Maybe those words, that
question, actually came right then because I was feeling how the
children he and I had made together,
with the kind hand of the Divine, they were moulting out of their childhoods all around us.
Traveling
with my 12 - and 14 - year - old
children has raised
questions about what is appropriate and where.
The very appetite proceeding from labor and peace of mind is gone: we eat just enough to keep us alive: our sleep is disturbed by the most frightful dreams; sometimes I start awake, as if the great hour of danger was come; at other times the howling of our dogs seems to announce the arrival of the enemy: we leap out of bed and run to arms; my poor wife
with panting bosom and silent tears takes leave of me, as if we were to see each other no more; she snatches the youngest
children from their beds, who, suddenly awakened, increase
with their innocent
questions the horror of the dreadful moment.
As for your
question about when a fetus becomes a
child, I go
with the medical facts: A fetus is a fetus until it comes out of it's mother's body.
Such commitment obliges us to witness to the unique and irreplaceable task of the family in bringing up and forming our
children in particular
with respect to education in the faith, family education and
questions relating to the right to life; subjects for frequent discussion, learning and reading in the family.
It is urgent because it foregrounds the
question of whether we would have been better off
with a women's movement that respected the family, the complementarity of men and women, and the satisfactions of having and raising
children — or, alternatively,
with a form of feminism that derides men as oppressors and champions alternate sexualities.
As a Christian Scientist said recently in response to a medical student's
question as to how she would help starving
children in Africa: «I suspect if I were there I would do what you would do — cradle as many as I could and feed them
with all the food I could lay my hands on.
Having faith like a
child has absolutely nothing to do
with not asking
questions.
To the folks who are vehemently denying this person was a Christian, I would urge you to consider this: If a person
with a muslim name commits an act of terrorism, he is immediately labelled an «Islamic» terrorist, no
questions asked, even though the Quran clearly states that a person who kills an innocent is like he / she has murdered then whole of humanity (the Quran mentions this in reference to murder of ANY innocent person, irrespective of the victims belief): To quote from the Quran: «On that account We ordained for the
Children of Isra`il that if any one slew a person — unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land — it would be as if he slew the whole humanity: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the whole humanity.
Although it is true that
children are filled
with questions, which is good, they generally do not have a mechanism to find answers to those
questions, which is bad.
The shopping centre asked 1,000
children to answer
questions about Christmas,
with a multiple choice of answers.
In our darkest hours of confusion and in our most glorious moments of clarity, we remain but curious and dependent little
children, tugging frantically at God's outstretched hands and pleading
with every
question and every prayer and every tantrum we can muster, «We want to have a conversation
with you!»
I have told my
children where I stand on the issue but I have also let them know they are free to explore any and all information they are curious about, including religious
questions, and are free to disagree
with me.
This author in my opinion deep inside is
questioning her faith but like a security blanket to a
child does not want to get rid of it and is looking for any explanation she can come up
with to hold onto it even in the face of the reality that the text that faith is based upon is highly flawed and frankly quite silly.
if humans had just fell in line
with religious teachings and never asked
questions other than «god did it»... then people would still be dying in
child birth, the common cold, small poxs etc etc etc. i find that we survived a s a species to become the alpha predator of this planet and the achievements we have made since then to be amazing; attributing everything humans have achieved to a god just cheapens the value of our achievements as a species.
easy answer they started scaring the poop out of them as
children with nightmare stories of eternal punishment along
with discouraging them to
question what they were being taught.
The raised eyebrow of an ultrasonographer, the continued
questioning of an obstetrician about whether you «really know what it will be like to raise a
child with Down's?»
I felt isolated both personally and intellectually: as a mother at home
with young
children I was in a different world from my male peers, and I was conscious that my first book had alienated many colleagues in the field of religion and literature (I had called much of the current enterprise into
question).
Ann Kissane Engelhart, the artist, has produced beautiful drawings which bring out the flavour of the day - the
children's eagerness and the happy atmosphere, coupled
with the sometimes comic nature of the
questions they posed.
The Holy Father answered the
children's
questions with simplicity, understanding, and wisdom.
Or just ask the mother of a
child whether she so trusts her bishop's ability to predict the future actions of a one — time
child molester that she would trust her
child with the man in
question.
Some would insist that each life is valuable, others might
question whether some
children with very severe brain damage are in any real sense capable of human life.
His daughter, Scout, now in her mid-twenties and visiting home from her erstwhile and vaguely described life in New York, finds Atticus at a meeting where a professional scaremonger warns the sympathetic audience that their concern is «not the
question of whether snot - nosed niggers will go to school
with your
children or ride in the front of the bus... it's whether... we will be slaves of the Communists» and «nigger lawyers.»
At the same time, the whole process of creating an adoptive family raises many concerns about identity and belonging; concerns not unlike those we are all faced
with: Three professionals who work
with adoptive families (Anderson, Piantanida, and Anderson, 1993) list the
questions about identity and belonging that an adopted
child will likely have as she or he reaches adolescence:
Meeting
with Catholic students from Italy and Albania on June 7, Francis ditched his «boring» speech and instead took
questions from the
children.
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.
This week alone, I have listened to stories of bitterness and unforgiveness, adoption struggles, death and sickness, betrayal and addictions, loss and grief, sleepless nights
with sick
children, and longings unfulfilled in the hearts and lives of people I love and there are more
questions than answers.
Now, compare her
children or grandchildren, who are standing in the doorway watching,
with my
children, who think that chicken comes from a kindly old Kentuckian
with a white goatee, and one arrives at an observation and then a
question of wider than cultural significance.