Category Archives: Marriage, Parenting
Teens who talk back may have bright future.
Well, things are looking good for my daughters, then.
Joking aside, this is a useful article: Why A Teen Who Talks Back May Have A Bright Future
The days are long but the years are short.
Take one minute and watch this. It can change everything.
Difficult Decisions
Reducing the attention I give my girls (for the sake of their behavior and maturation)
Speaking directly to students about what they need to correct… in their behavior.
Sacrificing interests for responsibilities.
In the novel, The Chosen, Reb raising Danny in silence.
A Few Small Repairs
- Eat better, Eat less, Exercise more (in the early a.m.)
- Alternate: running, curls / Push-up, sit-ups
- Read in evening
- Remember: “The days are long, but the years are short”
- “What you do everyday matter more than what you do once in a while.”
- “Most decisions don’t require extensive research.”
- NOW
- Simplify, focus, say “No”
- Put my wife and girls first
Oh, how we mistreat out children
Photo of girl on Students for Change poster. Afghan girl smiling shyly and holding up her head scarf so it covers most of her face.
Read student report on Human Trafficking.
Looking around the room of students in period 4.
How we mistreat and indoctrinate our children. And they live through it and grow in the shape we have ground and cut them into.
It’s all around the world.
Free will. Circumstance. Misc
Will.
Choosing eternal destiny is ultimate power. The freedom to, and ability to, choose all own actions is as much omnipotence a being can be granted within a world.
My thoughts re: circumstances???
What were my thoughts this morning re: fate, God???
My thoughts re: teaching initiative. Teaching process.
My thoughts re: become a disciple, “Choose a friend, make a teacher.” (Torah), choose/make a mentor, do not wait and hope that someone will find you.
examples:
My thoughts re: talks with my children. Explain life, sin, the other kids at school, bullies, money, sex, relationship, learning,
The Indoctrination of Children
http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part1.html
http://wizbangblog.com/content/2008/09/30/the-indoctrination-of-children-begins.php
1984, George Orwell. “It was always the women and children.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7767193.stm
“Muslim children in India shout anti-Pakistan slogans as they burn an
effigy of Pakistan’s spy service, the ISI, during a protest against
last week’s Mumbai attacks.”
The adults are behind the children. And the children are wild with emotion, in this case, rage.
I wonder how many photos like this could be found?
http://unclemeat.wordpress.com/2007/08/05/childrens-entertainment-in-iran/
http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200807/1215611993.html
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/children-indoctrination/1863757737
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jenny-block/indoctrinate-your-childre_b_98397.html
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/indoctrination-of-children-1327477.html
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“City of God” film.
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http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/hitleryouth/hj-timeline.htm
Hitler Youth
Jungvolk Oath
(taken by ten-year-old boys on first entering the Hitler
Youth)“In the presence of this blood banner which represents our Führer,
I swear to devote all my energies and my strength to the saviour of our
country, Adolf Hitler. I am willing and ready to give up my life for him,
so help me God.”Pledge of Allegiance
“I promise to do my duty in love and loyalty to the Führer
and our flag.”Hitler Youth ‘Prayers’
(modeled after the Lord’s Prayer)“Adolf Hitler, you are our great Führer. Thy name makes
the enemy tremble. Thy Third Reich comes, thy will alone is law upon the
earth. Let us hear daily thy voice and order us by thy leadership, for
we will obey to the end and even with our lives. We praise thee! Heil Hitler!”“Führer, my Führer, give me by God. Protect and preserve
my life for long. You saved Germany in time of need. I thank you for my
daily bread. Be with me for a long time, do not leave me, Führer,
my Führer, my faith, my light, Hail to my Führer!”Mottos for Boys
“Live Faithfully, Fight Bravely, and Die Laughing!”
“We were born to die for Germany!”
“You are nothing–your Volk is everything!”
Motto for Girls
“Be Faithful, Be Pure, Be German!”
Sayings of Hitler Youth Leader
Baldur von Schirach“We do not need intellectual leaders who
create new ideas, because the superimposing leader of all desires of youth
is Adolf Hitler.”“Your name, my Führer,
is the happiness of youth, your name, my Führer,
is for us everlasting life.”“He who serves Adolf Hitler, the Führer,
serves Germany, and whoever serves Germany, serves God.”Quotes of Adolf Hitler
“I begin with the young. We older ones
are used up. We are rotten to the marrow. We are cowardly and sentimental.
We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood
the dull recollection of serfdom and servility. But my magnificent youngsters!
Are there any finer ones in the world? Look at these young men and boys!
What material! With them, I can make a new world. This is the heroic stage
of youth. Out of it will come the creative man, the man-god.”“When an opponent declares, ‘I will not
come over to your side,’ I say calmly, ‘Your child belongs to us already…What
are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the
new camp. In a short time they will know nothing but this new community’.”“…Knowledge would spoil my young people.
I prefer that they learn only what they pick up by following their own
play instinct. But they must learn self-control. I will have them master
the fear of death through the most difficult trials. That is the heroic
stage of youth. Out of it will grow the stage of the free man, a human
being who is the measure and center of the world.”“The German youth must be slender and
supple, fast as a greyhound, tough as leather, and hard as Krupp steel.
He must learn to do without, to endure criticism and injustice, to be reliable,
discreet, decent, and loyal.”
Fatigue. Frustration. Defeat. Men. Teaching.
I am washed out to sea, and I don’t care.
Where are the men? Where are the boys who will become men? Where are the boys who are charming, confident, kind, and purposeful? That is what the world needs, has always needed, and will always most need.
Where are the boys who can laugh, but never at someone’s expense? I guess the underlining question here is: where are the boys who Know Themselves? Who are working hard at maturing? Who sweat in their effort to be kind, strong, wise, and better than they were before? Where are the boys who see that this is the real task?
And where, oh where, are their models?
Well… how do I wish my classes looked?:
- orderly
- disciplined
- purposeful
- welcoming
- friendly
- kind
- a safe place to try and fail
- students clean and straighten the room before the bell
- excitement for learning, writing, reading is contagious
