"Glad I'm not...."
faith buckley
Someone wrote in saying that sometimes they are glad they aren't a
Christian because of this whole Ezzo thing and being associated with
them. Please don't discredit Jesus or Christianity because of a couple
of humans and the faults they may or may not have. We are all capable
of being wrong and we also all have our own opinions whether they line
up with God or not. There are a lot of people in the world that say
they are doing things because that is what God told them to do, when in
reality they never heard from God. They just thought they did. I am
not saying the Ezzo's are right or wrong. Just that they are not
Jesus. Don't let any human represent Jesus as He truly is. I am a
Christian and I try to represent Jesus in everything I do, BUT I cannot
ever fully represent Him because I am not perfect. :-)
Living for Him,
Faith
Christian because of this whole Ezzo thing and being associated with
them. Please don't discredit Jesus or Christianity because of a couple
of humans and the faults they may or may not have. We are all capable
of being wrong and we also all have our own opinions whether they line
up with God or not. There are a lot of people in the world that say
they are doing things because that is what God told them to do, when in
reality they never heard from God. They just thought they did. I am
not saying the Ezzo's are right or wrong. Just that they are not
Jesus. Don't let any human represent Jesus as He truly is. I am a
Christian and I try to represent Jesus in everything I do, BUT I cannot
ever fully represent Him because I am not perfect. :-)
Living for Him,
Faith
Tracy Oldfield
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SOMETIMES I'm glad... ' and nowhere did I say that I thought all Christians
were like this. I am against the principles that Ezzo work from, as I don't
believe that we should have unquestioning obedience to any higher power, and
I am against anyone who advises methods of controlling children which do not
take their feelings and thoughts into consideration. Now, I have to admit
that I talk the talk better than I walk the walk where loving guidance is
concerned, but I do my darndest to let my children know that they have
choices.
Another point to this is that of the sort of people we are trying to raise
here. Primitive tribes have been studied by antrhopologists and others, and
while there are many differences, some things are common to varios peoples,
with similar outcomes. Basically the 'successful' warrior tribes have less
physical contact with their babies than more peaceful tribes. The children
who are raised by 'attachment parenting' style methods tend to grow into
groups of people who are happy and comfortable around each other (allowing
for personality, of course), the children who are raised in separation mode,
babies only picked up for feeding and tied to a board for travelling, as
oppose to a sling, tend to share mistrust of others, among other personality
traits, even within their own clans. This is not conclusive, of course, and
I'm not entirely sure where I read it, even, but nevertheless, I think hard
about what kind of children I want to raise when I decide how to deal with
them. And I don't want 'Stepford' children, instantly obedient, bent to my
will, however easy it would make my life now, because I don't want them
dependent totally on others their whole life.
JMNSHO
Tracy
Oh, and PS... A baby can give cues to whether he/she would appreciate
feeding round about now, LONG before they get around to crying! Crying is a
device to tell you something is wrong. If a baby is crying for food, then
he's had to wait too long for it! The recommended feeding schedule has been
changed since the increase in 'failure-to-thrive' babies from 4hrs to 2&1/2
to 3 hours. I'm glad you're adaptive to your child, and have enough sense
to read when the 'schedule' isn't working.
>Faith, I hold my hand up here and say 'It was I.' But what I said was,
> Message: 17
> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 17:43:04 -0700
> From: faith buckley <faithb@...>
> Subject: "Glad I'm not...."
>
> Someone wrote in saying that sometimes they are glad they aren't a
> Christian because of this whole Ezzo thing and being associated with
> them.
SOMETIMES I'm glad... ' and nowhere did I say that I thought all Christians
were like this. I am against the principles that Ezzo work from, as I don't
believe that we should have unquestioning obedience to any higher power, and
I am against anyone who advises methods of controlling children which do not
take their feelings and thoughts into consideration. Now, I have to admit
that I talk the talk better than I walk the walk where loving guidance is
concerned, but I do my darndest to let my children know that they have
choices.
Another point to this is that of the sort of people we are trying to raise
here. Primitive tribes have been studied by antrhopologists and others, and
while there are many differences, some things are common to varios peoples,
with similar outcomes. Basically the 'successful' warrior tribes have less
physical contact with their babies than more peaceful tribes. The children
who are raised by 'attachment parenting' style methods tend to grow into
groups of people who are happy and comfortable around each other (allowing
for personality, of course), the children who are raised in separation mode,
babies only picked up for feeding and tied to a board for travelling, as
oppose to a sling, tend to share mistrust of others, among other personality
traits, even within their own clans. This is not conclusive, of course, and
I'm not entirely sure where I read it, even, but nevertheless, I think hard
about what kind of children I want to raise when I decide how to deal with
them. And I don't want 'Stepford' children, instantly obedient, bent to my
will, however easy it would make my life now, because I don't want them
dependent totally on others their whole life.
JMNSHO
Tracy
Oh, and PS... A baby can give cues to whether he/she would appreciate
feeding round about now, LONG before they get around to crying! Crying is a
device to tell you something is wrong. If a baby is crying for food, then
he's had to wait too long for it! The recommended feeding schedule has been
changed since the increase in 'failure-to-thrive' babies from 4hrs to 2&1/2
to 3 hours. I'm glad you're adaptive to your child, and have enough sense
to read when the 'schedule' isn't working.