PARENTING FREEDOM

carol | March 31, 2010

Advocate Parenting–heartfelt discipline
http://wholeheart.typepad.com/itakejoy/2010/03/advocate-parentingheartfelt-discipline.html

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carol | March 31, 2010

Glenn Beck Tells Pro-Lifers: ‘There is a Profound Evil Coming our Way’
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/mar/10033004.html

“‘There is a profound evil coming our way,’ Beck told the pro-life crowd, ‘if we don’t draw a line in the sand…’”

“‘Pay attention to what’s happening!’ Beck stated, referencing the fact that abortion is now considered ‘health care’ by many in Washington. ‘There are people out there who want to wipe other people out…’”

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carol | March 30, 2010

French Religious Community Welcomes Girls with Down Syndrome
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/mar/10032910.html

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carol | March 30, 2010

Bodies of 21 Babies Found in China River
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/03/30/bodies-babies-china-river/

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carol | March 30, 2010

There are Too Many Preventable Deaths among New Moms
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/03/30/there-are-too-many-preventable-deaths-among-new-moms.aspx

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carol | March 30, 2010

Breastfeeding Significantly Lowers Breast Cancer Risk
http://www.naturalnews.com/028469_brstfeeding_brst_cancer.html

“Women who breastfeed their infants have a significantly lower risk of breast cancer…”

“In addition to providing significant advantages to the infants themselves, breastfeeding has also been linked to improved long-term health for mothers, including lower risks of ovarian cancer, osteoporosis, high blood pressure and heart disease…”

“When the researchers looked only at women with a history of breast cancer in their immediate family, however, they found a remarkably strong trend: Women who had breastfed had a 59 percent lower risk of breast cancer than women who had not, making their risk comparable to that of women without a family history of the cancer…”

“Women who breastfeed also tend to be better educated and have higher incomes than women who do not…”

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carol | March 29, 2010

The Boys Have Fallen Behind
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28kristof.html

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carol | March 29, 2010

Mother-Son Relationship Key to Emotional Development
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100325093124.htm

“New research from the University of Reading says that children, especially boys, who have insecure attachments to their mothers in the early years have more behaviour problems later in childhood.”

“According to attachment theory, children with secure attachments expect and receive support and comfort from their care givers. In contrast, children with insecure attachments have requests discouraged, rejected, or responded to inconsistently, which is thought to make them vulnerable to developing behavioural problems…”

“‘Our analysis showed that children with insecure attachments to their mothers, particularly boys, had significantly more behavioural problems, even when the behavioural problems were measured years later…‘”

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carol | March 28, 2010

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/03/27/high-risks-to-your-baby-from-vitamin-k-shot-they-dont-warn-you-about.aspx

“Vitamin K shots are completely unnecessary for your newborn.”

“ORAL Vitamin K is a safe, effective alternative.”

Vitamin K Shots for Infants?

I refused the shots and allowed the oral Vitamin K for each of my four children as newborns.

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carol | March 25, 2010

Almost a quarter of Republicans think Obama ‘may be the Antichrist’ as 14 states sue over healthcare reforms
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1260195/U-S-healthcare-reform-14-rebel-states-sue.html#ixzz0jDK1i7mJ

Health Care Law Signals US Empire Decline?
http://www.cnbc.com/id/36013573

Been saying that myself…

France to ban veil says Nicolas Sarkozy
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7516643/France-to-ban-veil-says-Nicolas-Sarkozy.html

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carol | March 25, 2010

Men and affairs? It’s all nanny’s fault
According to the psychiatrist Dr Dennis Friedman, entrusting your son to a nanny could turn him into a womaniser
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article7071735.ece

“The idea that there can be one female to meet one set of needs and another to meet different ones…”

“‘It creates a division in his mind between the woman he knows to be his natural mother and the woman with whom he has real hands-on relationship: the woman who bathes him and takes him to the park and with whom he feels completely at one”, Friedman says. “As a result, he grows up with the idea that although he will one day go through all the social and sexual formalities of marriage, he will have at the back of his mind the notion of this other woman, who not only knows, but caters for, all his needs…’”

“If you interfere with the close bond that exists between a mother and child there will eventually be a reaction to it. This can be in a huge way such as abuse — and here he cites the killers of Jamie Bulger — but there can be much smaller, less serious ‘interruptions’ that could have an effect.”

“A newborn baby is totally dependent on its mother, Friedman says. The baby recognises that it has certain ‘rights’ — such as to be loved and comforted by his mother when he needs her. ‘If he is denied these human rights he may grow up to deny somebody else their human rights,’ he says. ‘And with this the seed of antisocial behaviour starts to grow.’”

“Girls are also susceptible to this ‘vacuum of need’, he says, but perhaps less so because the little girls have a different relationship with their mother than little boys do…”

The author “believes that the best place for a baby is with its mother.”

Talk to your baby (using real words)… it boosts their brain
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1260502/Talk-baby-using-real-words—boosts-brain.html

I think there is room for some “baby talk” in addition though.

Gender-bender chemicals ‘putting everyone at risk’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1260479/Gender-bender-chemicals-putting-risk.html

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carol | March 25, 2010

There is another human being involved. It’s a baby. And there are only two ways it can come out. Dead or alive.

Do what you like with your own body, but don’t kill or harm the extra body inside. Since when does a woman’s body have double the amount of organs, or even male parts?

Abortion is an exploitation of women. Women are often coerced into having abortions. Women are being used by men and then violated with the abortion cover-up. Women have been deceived at the most basic level. The blood of their own children has been shed – by their own hands. Abortion does not help women.

EXPLOITATION – Abortion gives men the right to “use” women without consequences. Abortion exists so men can pursue a lifestyle of sexual irresponsibility without accountability.

COERCION – Men coerce women into believing that abortion is the only solution. Abortion provides an easy out for the man, certainly not for the woman.

DECEPTION – The woman is deliberately deceived about the abortion itself, its effects on her and on her living, growing child.

VIOLENCE – Abortion is a violent act against both the mother and the child.

CONTENT WARNING: Shows an actual abortion procedure.

http://herestheblood.com/

Hat Tip for video: http://www.jillstanek.com/-kingsborough-community-colleg.html

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carol | March 25, 2010

All Kids Invited to White House Easter Egg Roll, Provided They Attend Public School
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/24/all-kids-invited/

“The Obama administration announced on Tuesday it has reserved 3,000 free tickets to the annual White House Easter Egg Roll for students in D.C.-area public and charter schools, but not for children who attend private or parochial schools…”

“So does this mean that Obama’s own daughters won’t be invited to attend the Easter Egg Roll?”

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carol | March 24, 2010

Mother furious after in-school clinic sets up teen’s abortion
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/88971742.html

“The mother of a Ballard High School student is fuming after the health center on campus helped facilitate her daughter’s abortion during school hours.”

“She took a pregnancy test at school at the teen health center,” she said. “Nowhere in this paperwork does it mention abortion or facilitating abortion.”

“Jill says her daughter, a pro-life advocate, was given a pass, put in a taxi and sent off to have an abortion during school hours all without her family knowing.”

“‘We had no idea this was being facilitated on campus,’ said Jill. ‘They just told her that if she concealed it from her family, that it would be free of charge and no financial responsibility…’”

“At any age in the state of Washington, an individual can consent to a termination of pregnancy.”

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carol | March 23, 2010

Rotarix rotavirus vaccine contaminated, officials say
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/03/22/rotavirus.vaccine/?hpt=T2

“The vaccine is contaminated with material from a pig virus… About 1 million children in the United States and about 30 million worldwide have gotten Rotarix vaccine.”

UPDATE 3-Glaxo’s rotavirus vaccine use suspended – US
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2221966720100322?type=marketsNews

Corruption alleged as tainted vaccines kill Chinese children
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7069763.ece

“Our son was vaccinated by the hospital and they sterilised my wife to conform to the birth control policy. Now my son is dead and my wife can have no more children…”

“His son was among thousands of children given tainted vaccines in a scandal that reporters and medical staff allege has left four dead and 74 handicapped.”

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carol | March 23, 2010

“These are the times that try men’s souls.”
Thomas Paine

“We should never despair, our situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new exertions and proportion our efforts to the exigency of the times.”
George Washington

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carol | March 21, 2010

“The problem with socialism is you run out of other people’s money.”
Margaret Thatcher.

RIP capitalism in America 1776-2010. They say an empire only lasts 200 years, so I guess it was on borrowed time.

Stupak – didn’t think there was such a thing as a pro-life Democrat.

If all this completely passes, there will be no going back. The sense of entitlement becomes entrenched even if the healthcare is terrible, and the country is going bankrupt.

Very few Canadians care that we pay for the slaughter of 100,000+ unborn babies every year.

Edited to add:
How Liberty Dies

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carol | March 21, 2010

C8 and I used the stethoscope on the baby bump (seems more like a hill) this morning. As expected, it was a little early to hear the heartbeat, but we enjoyed listening to the whoosh-whoosh-whoosh of the placenta. Right now, at almost 18 weeks, the placenta is on the lower right side. The children enjoyed seeing drawings of unborn babies at this stage.

Regarding my pregnant body, I feel much better after Googling photos of pregnant women as far along as I am. I have been feeling so fat, but by the pictures, I guess it is normal, even small for this stage! My regular pants still zip right up!

Derek took my blood sugar this morning, and my mother took my blood pressure last night. Both were in the normal range. I don’t know why I am so extremely weak and tired. It has been going on so long that I am getting very discouraged and losing hope. After 25 days of continually getting worse on the vegan diet, I have added a little more protein, but I still feel terrible.

The combination of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Pregnant-at-Forty makes you appreciate the good minutes, hours, days of life. I look at people and am amazed at their strength. They can get up and move without exhaustion. They can talk without tiring. Being physically able to stand, and walk, and sit up, and talk, and work, and play are certainly things to be appreciated, because sometimes, “You don’t know what you got till it’s gone.”

“No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.”
Cicero

“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.”
Romans 8:18-23

“We were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life.”
2 Corinthians 1:8

“Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though something strange were happening to you.”
1 Peter 4:12

“And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
2 Corinthians 12:9

“In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.”
1 Peter 1:6,7

“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.” Revelation 21:4

“But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”
2 Corinthians 3:16-18

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