Anyone can take a shot at the public school system. They take in tons of money, have multiple layers of bureaucracy, they pass people that cannot read or write, and then they say the solution is more money. It’s the definition of insanity1. Insanity (n): Doing something over and over again expecting a different result [...]
It used to be that some things were left private. Discussed between parents and children at appropriate times, children were allowed to be children for as long as possible. Today, however, we have a culture that exposed to and trained in private things long before they have ever been taught before. I believe that sexual [...]
A group of six dozen paleontologists recently paid a trip to the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky to see what they presented.
We had an interesting thing happen here at the MInTheGap house. Almost two weeks ago my family was outside playing when a squirrel came out from a bush and made a nasty sound. This happened right near the swing-set where the kids were playing. Virtuous Blonde quickly brought the children inside, but she left the [...]
Gov. Palin’s biggest asset is that she’s a real person. Not that I believe the other candidates are space aliens, but she is the first person on either ticket that’s not a Senator, does not have money in their background, and oh yeah, she’s a girl. As the Politico reports, even some of the new [...]
There’s an interesting side story to today’s photo. I used to work for a guy that had a series of expressions that he used all the time. He could use the phrase "At the end of the day" ten times in a single meeting. One of the phrases that he said often to our all [...]
I know that this is no longer monitored by the media, they’ve since moved on (probably to something about Britney or one of the other single name celebrities), but there is still action on the Mormon children front:
Just in case you were wondering: An arrest warrant has been dropped for a man thought to be the husband of a teenage girl whose report of abuse triggered a raid on a polygamous sect’s Texas compound, authorities said Friday.
He can’t seem to escape it. A short time ago, Barak Obama made a comment regarding his young daughters– that if they “made a mistake” he didn’t want them “punished with an STD or a child” (paraphrase). So, when the Compassion Forum came up, the moderator gave him a chance to clarify his comment: What [...]
Each of us who are parents have to make many decisions every day, but one of them is critical: who will raise them? I do not believe the current culture that tells us that we have to send our children to day care because we have to have two incomes. And I think it’s a [...]
There is a fine line between discipline and abuse. Many good parents never cross the line. Some do when they let emotions control them. My pastor says that the line is when you stray from applying discipline where “God gave you extra padding.” In California, the Assembly again has a bill that goes a bit [...]
Increasingly, the state believes that it is their responsibilty to raise our children. The latest tactic it through “mental health“. It seems that they are not content to just judge a parent by whether or not they discipline them in public, but now they want to screen first born children to their environment shortly after [...]