Jeana (DP)
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GlitchWizard said:No kidding. I'd want to get some kind of wart remover to get rid of it! How in the way can you GET?
Some of them are small enough that wart remover might just work!
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GlitchWizard said:No kidding. I'd want to get some kind of wart remover to get rid of it! How in the way can you GET?
Yeah exactly! It's like a child telling me that their closet monster is going to eat me because I didn't cross myself after spilling salt.IrishMist said:JessieBell, I always tell them the same thing...
It's YOUR book, YOUR rules, YOU got to Hell!![]()
Silly Jessie, you throw a pinch over your left shoulder after spilling salt!!Jessiebell said:Yeah exactly! It's like a child telling me that their closet monster is going to eat me because I didn't cross myself after spilling salt.
Nova said:Yes, and here we are - 700 posts later - and I'm still asking, "Why not?"
Jeana (DP) said:Believe me, I'm certainly not advocating that anyone stay in an abusive marriage. My comment was aimed more towards those divorces of convenience where the selfishness of the adults takes precedence over the needs of the children. Staying in an abusive marriage is never the right thing to do. Staying in an abusive marriage teaches the children that its the "norm" and the cycle continues and the children feel worthless. I didn't mean to insinuate that anyone should live that way and I apologize if I came across that way.
I love the idea of those books. It just plain introduces the idea that these people exist and are families - so that our kids don't laugh at little Johnny when his moms or dads come to the school play. So the next generation is more tolerant than ours.jubie said:James Chamberlain is a teacher here in British Columbia and he's a HUGE advocate for books about same sex parent books being available to teachers as support material. My son was in his kindergarten class nine years ago. What a great year. As a teacher he was amazing with the kids and I'd say the 'book' thing was like a nano second compared to the rest of the school year. My son turned out just fine. The books are not sex guides, they simply tell a story and the characters just happen to be gay parents.
Ghosts and goblins are great for halloween but we can't tell a story that has two moms that love eachother in it?
I guess those that would not want this material in schools are most likely to let their children know they feel being gay is wrong. How anyone can say it's their place to judge how two consenting adults show eachother love behind closed doors is beyond me.
Jubie
IrishMist said:Silly Jessie, you throw a pinch over your left shoulder after spilling salt!!![]()
This is so true.Nova said:While I agreed above that for some people, religious faith is a great source of ethical behavior, I absolutely agree with Jessie and IM that it is not the ONLY source of ethical behavior.
Princy said:
Jeana what if it's the situation where the parents are no longer in love with each other? Maybe they aren't happy in the current marriage b/c there has just been too many hardships, emotional let down, whatever. Do you think the kids would be better off with the parents staying married for the sake of the children?
It's all such a domino effect isn't it?!Jeana (DP) said:Sometimes. Every case should be taken on its own merit, but my feeling is that adults have had their chance. We all know that children (most, but not all) of divorce have a more difficult time in life than children from a stable home. I think that you need to earn your way out of a marriage. If you read stories of children who take drugs, commit crimes, etc., nine times out of ten, you'll hear the word "divorce" in there and that's usually when the kids start to go downhill. I think that "love" is something that we have to work on. If people put half the energy into their marriages as they do other things, maybe there's a way to fall "back in love."
When parents started getting Halloween removed from schools, I warned people it would set a precedent that might come back to haunt them, no pun intended. It in some cases, as you said, it has done so. No one listened to me then, either, hmph.Nova said:Alas, jubie, here in the States some of the same parents who are most opposed to any mention of same-sex parents have also forbidden any mention of ghosts and goblins. On the ground that these are "demonic" or "pagan" beings.
Once you start down the road of legislating your superstitions...
Or she could switch parties, instead. There's a novel idea.Nova said:Now if we could just get the message to your party leaders...
Actually, in gay-majority Palm Springs, we have plenty of Republicans who are gay themselves. But don't get me started on that.
Actually, those stories include more children where the fathers were not present at all from birth...leaving a single parent to raise their kids alone.Jeana (DP) said:Sometimes. Every case should be taken on its own merit, but my feeling is that adults have had their chance. We all know that children (most, but not all) of divorce have a more difficult time in life than children from a stable home. I think that you need to earn your way out of a marriage. If you read stories of children who take drugs, commit crimes, etc., nine times out of ten, you'll hear the word "divorce" in there and that's usually when the kids start to go downhill. I think that "love" is something that we have to work on. If people put half the energy into their marriages as they do other things, maybe there's a way to fall "back in love."
IrishMist said:JessieBell, I always tell them the same thing...
It's YOUR book, YOUR rules, YOU got to Hell!![]()
Thanks, j2! :blushing:j2mirish said::clap:
i knew I liked you i/m...!
bolded by j2mjubie said:James Chamberlain is a teacher here in British Columbia and he's a HUGE advocate for books about same sex parent books being available to teachers as support material. My son was in his kindergarten class nine years ago. What a great year. As a teacher he was amazing with the kids and I'd say the 'book' thing was like a nano second compared to the rest of the school year. My son turned out just fine. The books are not sex guides, they simply tell a story and the characters just happen to be gay parents.
Ghosts and goblins are great for halloween but we can't tell a story that has two moms that love eachother in it?
I guess those that would not want this material in schools are most likely to let their children know they feel being gay is wrong. How anyone can say it's their place to judge how two consenting adults show eachother love behind closed doors is beyond me.
Jubie
Dark Knight said:When parents started getting Halloween removed from schools, I warned people it would set a precedent that might come back to haunt them, no pun intended. It in some cases, as you said, it has done so. No one listened to me then, either, hmph.
You are just neat-o Nova.Nova said:DK, I always listen to you. Really, I do, even though we often disagree.
I'm sure I'm not the only one.
At least Catholicism allows room for mystery and wonder and imagination. There, I said it!
:razz:Dark Knight said:Or she could switch parties, instead. There's a novel idea.