March for Life. You’re probably not going to see it featured anywhere on the evening news apparently (I honestly haven’t paid attention because I’ve had other things going on this week like a kid in the hospital) but it’s taking place tomorrow in DC and smaller ones in cities across the nation. Online, there are various bloggers and others who are going dark and using their social media time to pray instead for an end to abortion. #godark4life UPDATE: NBC actually mentioned it and showed footage. I know some of my pro-life friends were shocked by this because it’s kind of hard to ignore 500K people in DC but most networks pretend it didn’t happen.
Really? I saw this on a friend’s Facebook: Do Your Kids Respect You? 9 Ways to Change Their Attitude. I seriously *weep* for my generation if any of these things are surprising parenting techniques. They’re from Janet Lehman who appears on TV pushing her “Total Transformation” program for modifying your child’s behavior, also known as “setting limits and boundaries for your child and other things that should be common sense”.
Update on Daniel. We got a positive diagnosis of RSV yesterday. On one hand, at least we know what it is. On the other hand, he’s down on the regular peds floor so he’s confined to his crib and his half of the room. This is irritating because he would like to go do laps around the peds floor thankyouverymuch. (It’s a gigantic square.) God willing, we’ll be discharged tomorrow and he’ll be back in school on Monday or Tuesday.
The BEST Twitter EVER!!!! Rachel Held Evans introduced me to the awesomeness that is Bible Students Say… in which a Bible professor at an unnamed Christian college shares some of the more *interesting* things his students say in papers. It’s hysterically funny to me as someone with postgrad study in Bible and theology and the user pic of Jesus face-palming is totally fitting.
What freedom looks like. I don’t remember who shared it but this is a Buzzfeed article on what happens when you leave Westboro Baptist Church. Answer: amazing things. Libby Phelps is forbidden to contact her family (probably that whole “shunning” thing) but she has gotten to cut her hair for the first time in 25 years, attend the inauguration, travel, make real friends, and get married.
Kaia. You see this beautiful girl?
She needs a mama. Go here to see her profile and please share it with family and friends. Please also consider committing to pray for her.
Brett. This adorable little boy needs a mama.
Do you know who could be his mama? His profile is here. Go love on him.
For more Quick Takes, visit Jen at ConversionDiary.Com.
When I followed @BibleStudentsSay twitter also recommended Unappreciated Pastor
(@Rev_Norespect) and Church Drama (@churchdramaprbz) crazy twitter people. That article about Libby Phelps was really cool. I remember when I was in high school there was an article in 17 magazine about a girl that left her amish family and how she got to do a lot of “normal” things like cut her hair for the first time.
#2 – that is just SAD.
Glad Daniel is getting better!
Aaah praying for Brett and Kaia.
And I seriously can’t believe children act that way.
And praying for Daniel’s speedy recovery!
Hahahaha, SO following ‘Bible Students Say Now’. Thanks for this!
Praying for you, and yours, of course.
Jen, you’re familiar with my poor-white trash and poor urban (though not inner-city) schools background. Let me tell, those things are NOT common sense for a large segment of society. Especially #5, “Be respectful when you correct your child.” A lot of people treat their kids like crap and then expect them to kiss their butt.
Point taken.
re: #2: Yes, exactly. Where has our common sense gone???
Hope you can go home soon! Peds wards are so hard when they are better, but not well enough to go home.
RSV: been there, done that. Scary stuff. I’m glad he’s on the mend–although in some ways this is the hard part now, when they’re well enough to want to be up & around!
RSV…..scary preemie stuff (but knowledge is power…right?)
Hooooorrrraaaayyyyy Daniel is getting better!!!! Hopefully you’ll be home soon, and Edda will forgive you 😉
Regarding #2, Ryan and I have already come to the conclusion that other kids’ parents are going to be our biggest parenting challenges. Oy. I just don’t understand where the common sense went?
Glad to hear that you son is doing better! Will continue to pray for Kaia and Brett and that Daniel gets to go home soon.
I hope Daniel gets better soon! RSV is a nasty, nasty thing.
Thanks for the link on Libby Phelps! I just rewatched Louis Theroux’s two documentaries on the Westboro Baptist Church and all the leavers in the second one sound so much better.