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"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
If you had a story to tell about gaming being the road to church inactivity and you're deciding which GA to send it to, how do you decide on Larry Lawrence?
We don't hold sleepovers nor do we allow our kids to go to sleepovers. Two main reasons:
1) We were kids once and we know what happens at sleepovers.
2) While we would be OK with sleepovers here and at some other homes, we avoid the awkward situations where we have to say "You can't sleepover there because we don't trust the parents".
As a substitute, we allow "late nights". Stay up and have fun until midnight or so and then we will come and get you. Our kids have been fine with it.
Can we please get someone who has sent a text message once in their lives to talk about it? I agree with MRB, but this is not going to hit home for any youth.
Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est.
Ooh, M Russell Ballard takes on prescriptive medication addiction.
That was a good talk.
"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
Agreed. I like the characterization of addiction as anything that restricts agency. I think it's also more effective to implicate addiction as something that is personally damaging rather than a sin or something god does not find pleasing.
Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est.
I too enjoyed Elder Ballard's talk. It wasn't a condemning talk, but a talk of concern and reaching out. If I was addicted to anything, that talk would inspire me to get help.
Maybe next conference he will talk on those who don't go to Sunday School or Priesthood meeting and he will inspire me to go.
We don't hold sleepovers nor do we allow our kids to go to sleepovers. Two main reasons:
1) We were kids once and we know what happens at sleepovers.
2) While we would be OK with sleepovers here and at some other homes, we avoid the awkward situations where we have to say "You can't sleepover there because we don't trust the parents".
As a substitute, we allow "late nights". Stay up and have fun until midnight or so and then we will come and get you. Our kids have been fine with it.
I grew up in a house with this exact rule. I plan to have the same rule in my house.
Prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them, along with this slice of humble pie that comes direct from the oven of shame set at gas mark “egg on your face”! -- Moss
There's three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who's got the same first name as a city; and never go near a lady's got a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, everything else is cream cheese. --Coach Finstock
I grew up in a house with this exact rule. I plan to have the same rule in my house.
It is a good rule. We do allow sleepovers with cousins.
“There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
― W.H. Auden
"God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
-- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is a good rule. We do allow sleepovers with cousins.
Same. We had an instance in our neighborhood sleepover where a group of 10-year old girls looked up some porn on the internet, then started to reenact what they saw and took pictures on their phones. The poor girl who hosted the party actually moved away to live with relatives in another state. After that, we went with the strict "late-over" approach and it has worked well.
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