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excellent! All the words I teach my children every single day (we homeschool, but that’s beside the point).

Two of my four were at a friends house all day yesterday, (they have three of their own), and when I picked up the girls in the evening, the parents / Grandparents told me my kids can come back ANY TIME, since they hope and pray their good manners will rub off on THEIR kids. The girls said all day the grownups kept referring to their “good manners” (simple please & thank you, may-i-be-excused from the table, etc.) and the girls didn’t understand what the big deal was? To them, that’s what everyone does (or should do)....

My girls are 13 and 10...btw..

it depends on who your audience is. if you have uneducated, ignorant companions day to day, than i totally agree. i hear these words all the time in my circles, and i’m a stay at home mother of four.

very clever....

but i don’t think i like the word “feckless” at all..

i vote to remove that one..

And i personally know two people with your EXACT attitude — my pit around my kids — it’s the owner — blah blah blah —

and years of surgeries later, that their child has had to endure — all because that sweet little pit who wouldn’t hurt a fly suddenly turned on the family who loved it and championed its right to exist. it happens ALL the time.

be careful about blaming people who “adopt” them. There is no question, the dog is an evil, unpredictable breed.

Repeat after me — “people are more important than dogs.”

yes — ALL parenting involves risk. I just read about a 25 year old married 1st time mother who just died this week after complications from childbirth 7 months ago. She was healthy, and it was a normal birth, right here in the U.S.

I haven’t given birth, and I know it’s a natural common birth, but I’d rather adopt through a broken, crazy social system which destroys foster kids’ lives MORE after they’re removed from horrible birthparents!

Although I joked with my friends / family that I should have asked the judge and social workers for an epidural, for all the h*** I had to endure, to give these four great human beings a chance to grow up together, with a Momma who loves them.

it’s different when they know they have to cut out polyps. I had to have sedation for those also. many people can undergo no sedation in an office visit for a routine colonoscopy, but not when a blade is in involved.

I understand the fears some have over adopting in the U.S. (foster care), but it CAN be done well and effectively, with an incredibly positive outcome. I am living proof. So are the four 100% biological siblings I adopted. It took passionate, determined resolve on my part to keep social workers and agencies accountable, but there are “smart” ways to approach adopting foster children that are definitely not for the faint of heart, but are worth every drop of blood, sweat and countless tears.

My children are amazing, and I am honored to be their Momma. God has blessed us beyond words. I am single, and I homeschool all four (young elementary age).

I’m curious to hear from someone who’s read everything on this (i haven’t — just a little)..

based on your info and insight, what do you think the solution should be NOW, after the judge ruled badly, and the “birth parents” want her back?

Thanks..

Bless you. I’m a single mother of four precious siblings I recently adopted out of foster care, and God has richly blessed us. I homeschool them also, and sacrifice a LOT to stay home with them (gave us career) to focus on them in the years to come. They are 5, 9, 10 & 13. Worth all the tears (of joy & sorrow).

She has a four year old and an infant. That’s what pregnancy can do to some women’s bodies. It can make them more vulupturous and fuller than before.

She doesn’t dress immodestly.

i was thinking the exact same thing!

just too stupid to comment on.........

If one of the Bush twins had a DUI arrest for driving 100 mph with drugs in the car, you know darn well the media wouldn’t be giving Bush a pass like they are with Gory.

I’m glad Freepers hold themselves to such high standards of respect and treating others with dignity, based on who they are as people, not how attractive they are, or how old their spouse.

Just glad you’re not judgemental. sad...

no pretending here, my friend. Just choosing my battles more carefully. I teach my children the same things. There is no impact made on the world greater than showing people by example how their prejudices are wrong. Attitudes about homeschooling are something I deal with every day. My kids don’t need to see them or know about them at their tender ages. Parenting is about screening and monitoring and teaching according to emotional age, not just chronological. Homeschooling allows me to be more attentive and tuned into my family.

I fight other battles that are bigger, but I’m a huge advocate of homeschooling and have opportunities every single day to have a voice to those who see what a good job I’m doing with my own. We deal with crazy beliefs (that people voice to me right in front of my children!) about foster kids, and adoption, that I do battle with readily. Homeschooling is down on the list, but it’s definitely on the list. (Not with a movie critic, though. Waste of time.)

By the way, I’m a single (only) parent teaching all four of mine. So I know about sacrifice.

I went to the same college as my parents, and had a World History (boring) professor who was the same one SHE had when she attended that college 30 years before! He knew who I was, and chided me often about my parents flirting in his class.

My mother told me about a prank she and her twin sister pulled on this professor, hiding alarm clocks all around his classroom prior to class starting at the end of the year, setting them to go off at 10 minute intervals. It was hilarious and well talked about for years afterwards.

My roommate helped me do the same thing (we borrowed five clocks from dormmates). I was in class, watching his face, and it was worth it to see his face and remember 30 years before when my mother did it to him. Of course, I acted like i didn’t have a clue, and I wasn’t ever going to say anything to him about it.

Bummer was — he kept all the clocks and my friends were screaming for them, so I had to put my tail between my legs and go to his office to pick them up. He said he got a kick out of it, and actually thanked me for giving him something to chuckle about.

I should have been arrested for that? Different world we live in now. But i didn’t tape them to anything or make them look like bombs. Good thing..

Are you that sensitive? A condescending look? Do you think my four homeschooled children (who I adopted from foster care, and have endured much more ridicule than what you describe) would be offended as such a comment? Do you think I, as a homeschool single mother, am offended?

Absolutely not. Doesn’t matter how he meant it. Just once again proves that my children are better off in the communities (homeschool, adoptive, church) in which they reside, and live, and thrive.

Those public school kids can go watch all the other movies all they want to. No problem with me...

of course we do. and you know that, if you know the Bible at all...

Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,

I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?

When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

“The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’ Matthew 25..

And Smittie...that takes some kind of person to say that the “first thing an illegal does when he comes here is to break our laws”...

Wow...isn’t that what most of you call “racism” from the other side? Lumping a group of people into a category with a label, and assuming they are all the same, and have no redeeming qualities?

Anyway...God DOES have a lot to say about this issue of who we should or shouldn’t include, as I included above from Matthew. And no, it isn’t arrogant to speak for God, only when and if we quote HIS WORDS and not make up our own interpretation.

As His child, I am called and free to do just that, and required by His calling and purpose. These truths DO apply to the larger issue of immigration, whether anyone in FR wants to admit it or not.

here come the tomatoes again....

i said nothing about higher taxes or transfer payments. This is a much bigger and more important issue, about embracing those and making a way for those who seek shelter in our world to be responsible and to contribute to our great society. Mexicans are not destroying this country, my friend. We absolutely need to execute the laws currently on the books, while maintain the democracy and open society that we establish more than 200 years ago.

i wonder how many of you who are so “eloquently” using all the sarcasm and ridicule you can muster towards our President actually think about what Jesus’ heart would be toward those who seek the sanctuary of the free in the land of the brave, like we have here in America?

As a believer in Christ, there is no law higher than the laws of God — His heart of compassion for people should always reign paramount in our hearts and in our actions.

I truly believe that President Bush seeks God’s will at the highest level in his heart, without compromising the laws we have in place. Whether you agree or not, he is acting on conscience, while seeking peace among those from the opposible aisle, to bring about a solution to a megaproblem that has plagued us for years.

The solution is never as easy as most of you in here make it out to be. Building a wall 20 feet high and throwing 11 million people out of the country is ludicrous and impractical. I know i’ll get eggs and rocks thrown at me, but i just see this whole thing a different way.

You all are eager to find the “traitor” among us, especially at the top levels of leadership. You put your faith, i think, in a man MORE than you put your faith and hope in God. That may sound harsh and judgemental, but i’m only learning from all of you in here, listening to the venum with which you all speak.

I trust that President George Bush is truly keeping his relationship with God in first place, and knows he may appear to be letting down his party and his people. But i think his motive is righteous. I really do. I don’t agree with every decision he’s made either, but I think he wants God’s will for this country more than he wants to be popular.

My two cents...now come rocks, eggs and tomatoes.

Go for it.

do you actually think that when President Bush stands before the Lord on that day, God will ask him to give account for how faithful he was in carrying out the Constitution of the United States? Or whether he was Republican-politically-correct? Seriously!

Nothing matters more to God and for eternity than the impact we make on others for Christ — for salvation — for the story of redemption, and our unworthiness before Him.

That’s it. Not what we believe about immigration, or taxes, or much else in the political arena. Only issues where God’s word is clear (like the sanctity of life and the unborn, and loving your neighbor as yourself) matter in the end.

The Bible is God’s word and voice and heart to us. It shouldn’t be taken lightly, or misquoted, or used to prove a political agenda. It’s our Creator’s truth, given to us.

Amazing, that He loves or cares for us at all.

I could not agree with you more. Our choice is either family-centered parenting, or peer-centered parenting.

I choose the former. My children’s peers are more lost than they are. They would lead them down the path to hell.