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9 years of parenting and I'm still learning | alt ed + alt med | tea cures most ills đ« sacred families
Phoenix, AZ
Joined January 2013
Your children are not your children. Â Â Â Â They are the sons and daughters of Lifeâs longing for itself. Â Â Â Â They come through you but not from you, Â Â Â Â And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. -Khalil Gibran
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oh, glorious day. this is the debate Iâve had many a time, even with those that claim Martin himself attributes the âdownfallâ of classical to Sayers. Sayers was merely pointing out that which was obvious about childhood development. i, for one, think she has been a net
It's ironic that you say Sayer's "trivium" has been harmful to the classical education movement, since the classical education movement literally would not exist without it. It is her essay that is the efficient cause of the modern movement (another irony). I agree that it is not
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One angle on âpeople have fewer children nowâ is that all the main reasons to have children are spiritual and we live in a culture that does not help people with spiritual values.
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no screens in the car - they turn into monsters, we learned the hard way. so they color. the almost 4yo is working on patterns and the 7yo said the clock reminds her of gustav klimt. im not sure i follow her logic, but she gets a +1 for name dropping
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I've been working on my proposal to fix the university system and I've come up with this timeline for your consideration
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even my almost 4 year old caught on and laughed when I was counting from 6 to 7 the other day đ€Šââïž âsixxxx-sevennn, momâ
This whole â6 7â thing. As kids in the 90s we definitely had inside jokes that were totally lame and unfunny. But theyâd vary from school to school, and you might actually know the kid who invented it. Now the lame jokes are universalized through internet and inescapable.
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tbd if weâre successful, but we are trying to break my middle from the âstereotypicalâ middle child syndrome. mostly bc my husband is a middle and doesnât want her to be forgotten. my grandfather gave her this book and she references it all the time âim so lucky im the middle,
@eckiam Hmmm, I'll stick with being a middle child. Easier that way, I'm typically left alone which is what I prefer.
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you know, when you live in the desert, itâs obligatory to shout it from the rooftop every time it rains so I have to tell you that it was a slow, even-paced rain all night last night! the best sleeping weather
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bring back the birthright. those poor firstborns (im a first born)
@happy_at_home_ Yeah, after seeing what Iâve done so far to my first, Iâm certain birthright was a fair and just redemptive practice đŹ
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i need to start preparing for a garage sale to get rid of accumulated stuff. I have two options: 1) ask God to help me with this overwhelming task 2) suffer through my frustration until I finally beg Him to help me anyway two paths, same outcome the irony of middle class
im convinced this is why a certain amount of suffering is necessary. it is too easy to forget to command the divine when things are good. but when there is suffering we beg and so we remember
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im convinced this is why a certain amount of suffering is necessary. it is too easy to forget to command the divine when things are good. but when there is suffering we beg and so we remember
i believe its in virgil, he has hecate say âi, being beseeched by thy prayers, came hitherâ. to me beseech is like âbegâ, âbeseechedâ implies slight pity. this affected my view of the divine - its the opposite of âbe bold and mighty forces will come to your aidâ. you can also beg
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a very good friend of mine is a psychologist and she says âwe wonât harm our kids in the way we intend to not harm them, but we will harm them in ways that were unintended.â so. i guess we do the best we can. and have some humility in our human frailties
The experiment results are in, and it's pretty clear now that trying to protect your children from any kind of hurt simply hurts them in a different way. The best we can do is make mistakes and repair, forgive and ask for forgiveness, and hope that our children pick it up.
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Even in Maricopa County (Phoenix), only 37% of the water supply is used by the Cities. 62% is used for agricultural irrigation. 4.6 million people with their pools and golf don't even use HALF the water supply of that desert valley. This stuff doesn't work like you think.
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Medieval Suns and Moons (illuminated manuscripts). Date: c. 1250â1475 AD. Medium: tempera colors, gold leaf, watercolor and ink on parchment. Collection: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Why did medieval artists give the heavens such human expressions? Because in the
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