You ever just not want to go to work and school and just stay home snuggling your kids all day instead?
Not sue if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
Anonymous asked: I'm scared of raising children. I'm amazingly excited and ready for it. However, I feel like I think about myself to relation to my parents and how much I've hurt them in the past. How do you deal with your children? Do you have any girls? What will you do when they start to date and such? Thank you.
The beautiful thing about adjusting to being a parent (both through pregnancy and the rest of life) is that the kids only grow up or develop one day at a time. Like your teachers, they typically only need to be about a week ahead of you to pull off like they know everything.
Kids are VERY humbling. Your reactions dealing with them will bring out all the areas you need to fix. It works both ways, though - Sometimes you want to cream them and then you realize you are looking in a mirror (behaviors more than looks). Honestly, then you feel sorry for them because they now have your anxieties, etc.
I believe that many people have weaknesses in their religious life because of how they have perceived their own parents. I keep in mind that I am the first impression to my children about who God is. I want to be understanding, yet firm, yet forgiving, and always wanting them to be better - but loving them for who they are.
I have a daughter - 8 years old. (I have also worked in foster care, residential facilities, and schools for about 20 years - so I think of myself as having raised many and I even have a few “grandkids,” but your own child is different, too.) I prayed for her constantly before she was born and I pray with her at night. I know that I’m preparing her now for those dates. She needs to know how a man should love her and treat her. She will remember how I treat her - at least I hope so. I have also started to ingrain that other kids may behave a certain way, but my expectation is that I do not expect her to act that way. She needs to know that I am there and will be. Tonight, for example, I made sure to tell her that I figured out something I told her she was wrong about and that it turns out she was right. She beamed. Especially when I’m not perfect (and you will rarely be as a parent), I make sure to tell her that I recognize that and that I am sorry. I’m hoping that she will learn it is OK to do the same thing.
The ask box is open. Especially accepting questions or thoughts related to depression or trying to figure out life.
It can also illustrate a point that I’ve thought about. Look at all the potential things those little sperm might be destined for. You could make a similar proposals for the egg cells and the magic that might have been if you had just the right combination of egg and sperm get together. Then, think of the “what might have been” for all the babies that are aborted. Of course we’ll never know and you can throw out arguments of the sperm and eggs that never get fertilized, but many DO by some random miracle and then they are thrown away with medical waste.
Could it be that there has already been a potential cure for cancer, or president that would have had JUST the right answers, or the person that would have stopped certain other deaths or tragedies? I chose to think that we have made many things harder on ourselves because we threw away people who just might have made things easier, which is really too bad.
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(BTW, This was actually on a site that shows grammar errors - so forget the misspellings. - Thank you)
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McGurn: cheer, cheer for Notre Dame -
In 2008, Mr. Obama had a prominent team of Catholics for Obama, led by Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey. Perhaps it will rev up again—though “Catholics for Obama” is notably absent from the page on Mr. Obama’s website that lists groups such as “Jewish Americans for Obama,” “Latinos for Obama,” “LGBT Americans for Obama,” “People of Faith for Obama,” etc. The lack of prominence of a similar Catholic effort today points to the obvious: Where can Joe Biden or other Catholic surrogates go where they will not now be on the defensive?
A powerful sort of thought when you think about prayer, moments of silence, or expression of religion by individuals in a school. If one cannot afford a private school, it does not mean that his/her freedom of religion should be limited.
(Source: catholicknight)
As President Obama (appropriately) is speaking at so many monuments today remembering the noble things so many Americans gave their lives for, I wonder if Michelle Obama would be willing to re-examiner her comment 3 years ago that “for the first time” she “is proud of her country”?
Just over a month ago my mother-in-law was buried at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in IL. I’d like to think that while my wife is making a bunch of salads and desserts that her mom is busy making a Thank You dinner for all of her new neighbors this Memorial Day.
(Source: catholicknight)