PARENTING FREEDOM

attachment parenting, homeschooling, gentle discipline
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    Monday, May 21st, 2012 9:16 pm

    “The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.” Thucydides

    “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” Epictetus

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    "Whatever you did to the least of these...
    you did to me."
    Matthew 25:40
  • Abstinence in the News

    | December 30, 2010

    Vatican denies Pope said condoms could be used to avoid pregnancy
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1340692/Vatican-denies-Pope-said-condoms-used-avoid-pregnancy.html#ixzz19cVvNAh3

    Want the secret to a happy marriage? Don’t have sex before the wedding
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1341126/Want-secret-happy-marriage-Dont-sex-wedding.html#ixzz19cWy0Lpx

    “Couples who delay sex until after the wedding enjoy a stronger relationship later in life.”

    Rush and Kathryn’s Wedding Pictures on Facebook

    | August 11, 2010

    Rush & Kathryn’s Wedding
    http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=30710&id=136264019722601&ref=mf

    “Say sorry to your wife”

    | April 21, 2010

    Say sorry to your wife – it may help her live longer, according to scientists
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1266898/Say-sorry-wife–help-live-longer-according-scientists.html

    “Researchers have discovered that women who receive an apology for hurtful behaviour suffer less stress and potential damage to their heart than those who don’t…”

    “Unfortunately for men, a male heartbeat takes longer to recover after an apology than without, according to the research, suggesting that men become irritated when there is an admission of guilt.”

    In the News: Baby Stuff

    | 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

    “75% of Canadians Say ‘Abortion is Morally Wrong’”

    | March 17, 2010

    75% of Canadians Say “Abortion is Morally Wrong”: Poll
    http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/mar/10031605.html

    “A large majority of Canadians are increasingly embracing conservative values, including opposing abortion and supporting the true definition of marriage.”

    “Children born to cohabiting versus married parents have over five times the risk of experiencing their parents’ separation…”

    | March 5, 2010

    Study: Cohabitation Linked to Exponential Increase in Relationship Failure Risk
    http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/mar/10030411.html

    “Children born to cohabiting versus married parents have over five times the risk of experiencing their parents’ separation, showing an exponential increase in relationship failure for couples currently or ever cohabiting…”

    “By 2006, just 7 per cent of couples who were unmarried when their child was born were still cohabiting by their 16th birthday.”

    | February 19, 2010

    Married parents ‘ten times more likely to stay together’
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1252068/Married-parents-provide-stable-family-background-couples-living-together.html#ixzz0fxCWX5sW

    “Married parents are ten times more likely to stay together than cohabiting couples with children…”

    Explaining Liberal Compassion

    | February 10, 2010

    The pitfalls of compassion ~ Mgr Michel Schooyans
    http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010_docs/Compassion.pdf

    Excellent essay.

    It’s not about you.

    | December 21, 2009

    Sean Stephenson addresses a crowd about an interesting date!

    “What other people say and think about you is none of your business. It’s not even about you. It’s about them and what they’re comfortable with.” Sean Stephenson

    "Life satisfaction for married people — women especially — goes up the more kids they have."

    | November 6, 2009

    Married With Children Paves Way to Happiness
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20091104/hl_hsn/marriedwithchildrenpaveswaytohappiness

    “A new study found that having children boosts happiness. And the more, literally, the merrier.

    “The study found that life satisfaction for married people — women especiallygoes up the more kids they have. Single, separated and co-habiting people, by contrast, report negative experiences.”

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