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6.30.2007
Road rage
So my mom has major road rage... I mean extreme road rage... she acts like she's not afraid of anything or anyone but I am... I mean what if she yells @ the wrong person and they try to hurt us... not to mention the fact that most of the words she says when yelling @ someone aren't that Godly... I mean plus like what if someone like tries to follow us home or something... There are much crazier people out there and I know we have God's protection and everything but not if you're acting outside of God's will... I mean really... It kinda makes me sick and worried and upset with her... but I can't tell her because she doesn't want to hear anything from me... its not fair I mean she is putting all of our lives in danger... not just her own...
6.29.2007
Time-out... Friend or Foe?
These darn kids...
Man sometime those kids drive me crazy!!!!
I finally got the lil girl who cries everyday to go play but she would not listen @ all... even when I threatened to put her in timeout... she talks to me all the time but she always wants to sit on my lap and then try to hurt me... but she's so cute... they're all cute and sometimes I can't help but laugh @ them when they're doing wrong and acting silly... but then they won't listen to me and do what I say... its so annoying... and if you put them in timeout they hate you forever... or at least until the end of the day LOL... but does it help or does it make the child resent you???
It helps this one boy... but that's only cuz he gets it @ home too after his timeout... I've only put 4 children in timeout in 2 weeks... and believe me they've all but maybe 2 deserved it @ one time or another... I just hate repeating myself 4 and 5 times... but what do you expect from 3-5 year olds?
Man sometime those kids drive me crazy!!!!
I finally got the lil girl who cries everyday to go play but she would not listen @ all... even when I threatened to put her in timeout... she talks to me all the time but she always wants to sit on my lap and then try to hurt me... but she's so cute... they're all cute and sometimes I can't help but laugh @ them when they're doing wrong and acting silly... but then they won't listen to me and do what I say... its so annoying... and if you put them in timeout they hate you forever... or at least until the end of the day LOL... but does it help or does it make the child resent you???
It helps this one boy... but that's only cuz he gets it @ home too after his timeout... I've only put 4 children in timeout in 2 weeks... and believe me they've all but maybe 2 deserved it @ one time or another... I just hate repeating myself 4 and 5 times... but what do you expect from 3-5 year olds?
6.26.2007
So you know you've reached a new level when...
LOL... I have issues and I know it... but you know you've reached a new level in your friendship when you both tell each other harsh truths that could end a friendship in the middle of an intense conversation and 5 seconds later you're back to the casual nonchalant joking like nothing happened...
I found this article and its definitely on point
What is a true friend?
Published in: Connected
Most of us can name several people we call friends, and some would name quite a few. Others might count their friends on just a few fingers. We have a lot of acquaintances, but friends are fewer. A friend is someone we can hang out with, have fun with and depend on. The Bible has a lot to say about friendship, but it’s different from what we might expect. Joe O’Day, author of The Art of Friendship, writes, “Our preoccupation is usually with having friends. The Bible’s focus is on being a friend.” David and Jonathan O’Day goes on to tell about King David’s friendship with Jonathan. He concludes, “Another person who went the distance for his friend was Jonathan. His friendship with David is one of the most outstanding and moving stories in all of Scripture, perhaps in all of literature. . . . Few are the people blessed enough to know a committed friendship such as Jonathan’s. David calls Jonathan his brother, reminiscent of the verses from Proverbs. Jonathan was closer to David than a brother. He was closer than a wife. Such analogies speak deeply of commitment, for the fundamental bond between brother and brother, or husband and wife, is commitment. Commitment is the word that unlocks the real meaning of friendship.” You can read about David and Jonathan starting in 1 Samuel 19 and on into chapter 20. Reading this will introduce you to the potential of deep, caring friendship.
I found this article and its definitely on point
What is a true friend?
Published in: Connected
Most of us can name several people we call friends, and some would name quite a few. Others might count their friends on just a few fingers. We have a lot of acquaintances, but friends are fewer. A friend is someone we can hang out with, have fun with and depend on. The Bible has a lot to say about friendship, but it’s different from what we might expect. Joe O’Day, author of The Art of Friendship, writes, “Our preoccupation is usually with having friends. The Bible’s focus is on being a friend.” David and Jonathan O’Day goes on to tell about King David’s friendship with Jonathan. He concludes, “Another person who went the distance for his friend was Jonathan. His friendship with David is one of the most outstanding and moving stories in all of Scripture, perhaps in all of literature. . . . Few are the people blessed enough to know a committed friendship such as Jonathan’s. David calls Jonathan his brother, reminiscent of the verses from Proverbs. Jonathan was closer to David than a brother. He was closer than a wife. Such analogies speak deeply of commitment, for the fundamental bond between brother and brother, or husband and wife, is commitment. Commitment is the word that unlocks the real meaning of friendship.” You can read about David and Jonathan starting in 1 Samuel 19 and on into chapter 20. Reading this will introduce you to the potential of deep, caring friendship.
Friends, acquaintances and MySpace Paul Grant, editor and writer for Urbana.org, grew up in Switzerland, where the term “friend” is held in such high regard that most people only call a couple of people their friends. He points out that while Urbana 06 on MySpace has well over 300 friends, the idea of “friend” in Switzerland and “friend” on MySpace are miles apart.
“On MySpace,” says Paul, “the term ‘friend’ is a technical term, really a ‘contact.’ You have the right to send your friends a message, but the use is hardly relational. Of course a friend is more suggestive and appealing than a contact. If you’re in middle school you can boast of the number of ‘friends’ you have and also rank them. Kids slam each other all the time by how they rank their friends’ pictures. I know of some who will not even be friends with someone who has under 200 friends.” In the U.S., says Paul, we tend to confuse friends and acquaintances. “We find it cold to say acquaintance or colleague or even comrade, which we associate with communism. People in other parts of the world don’t hesitate to differentiate those they merely know and those they’d count as friends.” “By the way,” says Paul, “if anyone wants to be my friend on MySpace, feel free to add me.” (You can find Paul here. Hey, we’re happy to be part of Web culture!)
“On MySpace,” says Paul, “the term ‘friend’ is a technical term, really a ‘contact.’ You have the right to send your friends a message, but the use is hardly relational. Of course a friend is more suggestive and appealing than a contact. If you’re in middle school you can boast of the number of ‘friends’ you have and also rank them. Kids slam each other all the time by how they rank their friends’ pictures. I know of some who will not even be friends with someone who has under 200 friends.” In the U.S., says Paul, we tend to confuse friends and acquaintances. “We find it cold to say acquaintance or colleague or even comrade, which we associate with communism. People in other parts of the world don’t hesitate to differentiate those they merely know and those they’d count as friends.” “By the way,” says Paul, “if anyone wants to be my friend on MySpace, feel free to add me.” (You can find Paul here. Hey, we’re happy to be part of Web culture!)
A true friend is . . . “What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.” — Aristotle
You can have a lot of acquaintances, but only a few people will become your best friends. These are kindred spirits, much like David and Jonathan mentioned in the main article, whose souls were “knit together.” Friendships like this will endure, even though the intensity of the friendship will ebb and flow over time. One of the dangers in this kind of friendship is co-dependency. The sheer delight of having such a friend can also create weighty expectations in the relationship. A good question for friends to ask regularly is, “Are we truly seeking the other person’s highest good?” “A true friend stabs you in the front.” — Oscar Wilde
Leave it to Oscar Wilde to lay out an important truth with such wry humor. A true friend is one who helps you see the truth, even if it hurts. This doesn’t mean we can go around stabbing our friends with hurtful words. Rather, it means being up front with friends about important issues, raising gentle questions with tact and love, never gossiping or putting them down to others behind their backs. “I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Real friendships don’t just happen, and they aren’t maintenance free. Ask yourself and your friend questions like these: “How would you describe our friendship?” “What is God doing in each of us, separately and together?” “How can we help each other become all God wants us to be?” Seeking another person’s highest good: that’s being a true friend.
You can have a lot of acquaintances, but only a few people will become your best friends. These are kindred spirits, much like David and Jonathan mentioned in the main article, whose souls were “knit together.” Friendships like this will endure, even though the intensity of the friendship will ebb and flow over time. One of the dangers in this kind of friendship is co-dependency. The sheer delight of having such a friend can also create weighty expectations in the relationship. A good question for friends to ask regularly is, “Are we truly seeking the other person’s highest good?” “A true friend stabs you in the front.” — Oscar Wilde
Leave it to Oscar Wilde to lay out an important truth with such wry humor. A true friend is one who helps you see the truth, even if it hurts. This doesn’t mean we can go around stabbing our friends with hurtful words. Rather, it means being up front with friends about important issues, raising gentle questions with tact and love, never gossiping or putting them down to others behind their backs. “I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Real friendships don’t just happen, and they aren’t maintenance free. Ask yourself and your friend questions like these: “How would you describe our friendship?” “What is God doing in each of us, separately and together?” “How can we help each other become all God wants us to be?” Seeking another person’s highest good: that’s being a true friend.
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