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Whose Idea Was This?
Potty Training. It’s really a funnier topic than we think. Who thought up the idea of that little plastic miniature toilet-thing that is designed to sit in your bathroom to entice your child to defecate into it? At the beginning of our potty training experience we purchased one of those fabricated devices because it seemed as if that was the choice everyone should make. We didn’t think through the purchase thoroughly, I guess. We set it up in the bathroom and London did what we asked – she deposited her poop and pee inside the plastic enclosure. And that’s when it dawned on me. So now what? There is no…
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What It All Comes Down To
Why do we say the things we say to children? No wonder they grow up a bit confused and have to find out so much for themselves in the long run anyway. The breakfast table topic this morning was birthdays – whose was next and what that child wanted to do. In our house, that discussion always leads to a discussion involving Chuck E. Cheese’s. (We’ve only dared enter that establishment twice in our children’s lives, but it has unfortunately clearly made a large impression.) As they bantered about the games, the ball pit and the pizza that you can eat while watching a show, London wisely surmised the experience…
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Read This
Read this …… it’s better than anything I could put up here anyway. All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you.I never had a selfless thought since I was born.I am mercenary and self-serving through and through;I want God, you, all friends, merely to serve my turn. Peace, reassurance, pleasure are the goals I seek,I cannot crawl one inch outside my proper skin;I talk of love – a scholar’s parrot may talk Greek –But, self-imprisoned, always end where I begin. – C.S. Lewis
