Be careful what people tell you in church, they may be trying to cash in on all that money you save up by not drinking, smoking, or carousing.
They sure cashed in on this couple and many like them with a cleverly crafted plan that snagged millions a year designed to tug on the hearts of Christians’– and their pocketbooks.
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The Texas School Board is dominated by anti-science Fundamentalist Christians who are opposed to teaching evolution and push for christian beliefs in public schools. Yet, my entire life I’ve heard that they have a great influence over what other schools districts adopt.
They HAVE had… but that is because it was hard for other companies to compete.
The simple fact is that there will now be a market for "non-Texasfied" History books.
The rest of the country will simply say "Screw em… we ain’t teaching this shi4", and buy their books from a different publisher.
I am really keen to homeschool both my children. My daughter is 3 and my son is 1 but I am trying to research as much as possible now before we start. I have a problem in that their father is will be graduating as a teacher the year my daughter begins school. Our daughter is adopted from Ethiopia and our son is biological.
I originally considered h’schooling because I know that boys benefit more from beginning formal schooling when they are a little older. After some research, I now want to homeschool both to help provide strong moral (Christian) grounding for both children.
My husband’s family are very anti-homeschooling giving the reason that although the children might be ahead academically, they miss out socially. What has other people’s experiences been.
I was unsure as to whether to post on Adoption forum, but hoping to get some advice from parents who have adopted and are homeschooling on this forum.
Is h/schooling the wrong decision because of my husband’s career choice?
Interestingly, I know many school teachers families that homeschool. They know what the schools are like and don’t want their children in that situation. So his career is not a deciding factor.
"Socially", the majority of homeschoolers are actually more social than traditional school students due to their interaction with people of various ages and diverse nature (in the REAL world, not the artificial segregated peer age groups at school). I do believe that children educated at home get a wider range of experiences and benefit from that exposure to the world. I doubt that you would isolate your children and would make every effort to get them out and active if you decided to homeschool. So that pretty much eliminates the "Socialization" argument (that is really an myth that has been ‘busted’ over and over again.)
As for the "family members are anti-homeschool". Honestly, it isn’t their decision to make. This is a decision between you and your husband deciding what is best for your children. You really do need to honestly discuss this with him asking him to consider all educational options. There is plenty of time to make this decision and it doesn’t have to be made immediately. Meet with other homeschoolers in your area.. research the activities, support groups and services in your area. Most of all… Pray..
Would you side with those who felt Constantine’s conversion was a blessing (e.g. Eusebius of Caesarea) or with those who felt it was a curse (monastic movement)?
Furthermore, how involved do you think the government of today should be in religion…and vice versa?
If he hadn’t done so, there would be absolutely no Christianity left in the world.
my opinion.
how involved should the government be?
law makers should consult one another, and the conversation should always always be open, but neither should have power over the other…we cannot afford, as a society to think in absolutes. If we do, our small mistakes will become egregious.
that would be better than abortion. I like the idea of Adoption, THE OTHER OPTION !!!
There are so many families out there just begging for their own children and for those who out of an inconvenient distraction should reconsider and for those who have had more than three abortions should Not ever be "parents" anyway!
I am constanly hearing of Christianity in England being politicaly attacked, a crusafix can not be worn openly by any official person, or even an air hostess. Christmas must now be carried out without christian symbolisim! Church addoption agencys are now being forced to accept gay addoption. Can you imagine what would happen if a law was passed that tried to even touch the least an islam belief? or any other protected "minority" in this country. Jack Straw comments on all over body robes and people protest to have in jail! why is it that the church should get all this sh1t thrown at it but all other religions exempt?
They have a lot more sense than us in that respect.
I was just watching a tv show, and a Muslim teacher told people in Islam, it’s the greatest thing to help an orphan, as long as they don’t legally adopt the kid. (By the way, that’s wrong, other Muslim teachers on the show did strongly disagree with him)
I was just wondering what Bible says about adoption, and if there is some incorrect teachings by some Christians.
Adoption can be a loving alternative for biological parents who may have a variety of reasons for being unable to care for their children. It can also be an answer to prayer for many couples who have not been able to conceive their own offspring. Adoption is shown favorably throughout Scripture as a way in which God uses people to do His will and bring Him glory.
The story is told in the book of Exodus about a Hebrew woman named Jochebed who bore a son during a time period where Pharaoh (the king) was ordering all the male infants to be put to death in order to control the population (Exodus 1:15-22). Jochebed took a basket, waterproofed it with tar and pitch, and sent the baby down the river in the basket. One of Pharaoh’s daughters spotted the basket and retrieved the child. He was eventually adopted into this royal family and was given the name Moses. He went on to become a faithful and blessed servant of God (Exodus 2:1-10).
In the book of Esther, a beautiful girl named Esther, who was adopted by her cousin after her parents’ death, became a queen and God used her to bring deliverance to the Jewish people. In the New Testament, God’s one and only Son, Jesus Christ, was conceived through the Holy Spirit instead of through the seed of a man (Matthew 1:18). He was adopted and raised by His mother’s husband, Joseph, who took Jesus in as his own child.
Once we give our hearts to Christ, believing and trusting in Him alone for salvation, God says we become part of His family—not through the natural process of human conception, but through adoption. “So you should not be like cowering, fearful slaves. You should behave instead like God’s very own children, adopted into His family – calling Him ‘Father, dear Father’” (Romans 8:15). Bringing a person into a family by means of adoption is done by choice and out of love. “His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave Him great pleasure” (Ephesians 1:5).
Clearly Adoption—both in the physical sense and in the spiritual sense—is shown in a favorable light in Scripture. Both those who adopt and those who are adopted can receive abundant blessings and joy.
My husband and I are unable to have children of our own and would really like to adopt a baby. We will provide a loving christian home.
You should be checking out all these prganant girls here who post and ask them!
No, no more than s/he should be excused from doing her/his work with someone who is a drug addict, Satanist, or anything else a Christian might disapprove of. The job of a registrar is not about personal approval or disapproval, any more than nursing or other jobs are. The job is the job. If you don’t like the things it entails, don’t do it.
Where I live there are two of these stores next to each other and I patronized them today because I needed to stock up on toilet paper, paper towels, candy, and laundry detergent.
I noticed that at each of these stores there were several flyer’s of Christian loving couples looking to adopt a baby or toddler.
Do you think that these corporations should become licensed brokers so that they can make a profit off of these couples trying to avoid agency fees?
They could use the money to provide health insurance to its employees or get another corporate jet.
yuck…
and i have another one: should the adoption industry buy booths at public health conferences??? i was at the american school health conference in tampa last week and was floored that the Infant Adoption folks had set up shop…right next to the abstinence-only folks. i guess they were working together: the abstinence folks were trying to push their bullsh !t , ineffective abstinence education, then when the kids get knocked up…guilt them into giving up the kid to the infant Adoption nuts.
there wasn’t a whole lot of traffic at those tables, BTW.
how effing tacky…i really wish people would stay the hell out of the uteruses of fertile young women. the whole mess is t.a.c.k.y….
ETA: poor kid…"honey, i found you because i trolled the dollar general and schemed on your mother’s womb. it was GOD’S will!!!"
bleh…i need a bath now.