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Baby GIRL names that start with "J"
by purplesofa inmy daughter is still not decided on a baby name.
she wants the name to start with a j...... .
do you all have any suggestions, please?
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What are you going to teach your children about relgion?
by reneeisorym in) take them to your church and encourage them to learn about other faiths too..
) don't teach them anything about religion..
) encourage atheism..
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reneeisorym
Study: Religion Is Good for Kids
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
By Melinda Wenner
Kids with religious parents are better behaved and adjusted than other children, according to a new study that is the first to look at the effects of religion on young child development.
The conflict that arises when parents regularly argue over their faith at home, however, has the opposite effect.
John Bartkowski, a Mississippi State University sociologist and his colleagues asked the parents and teachers of more than 16,000 kids, most of them first-graders, to rate how much self control they believed the kids had, how often they exhibited poor or unhappy behavior and how well they respected and worked with their peers.
The researchers compared these scores to how frequently the children’s parents said they attended worship services, talked about religion with their child and argued abut religion in the home.
The kids whose parents regularly attended religious services — especially when both parents did so frequently — and talked with their kids about religion were rated by both parents and teachers as having better self-control, social skills and approaches to learning than kids with non-religious parents.
But when parents argued frequently about religion, the children were more likely to have problems. “Religion can hurt if faith is a source of conflict or tension in the family,” Bartkowski noted.
Why so good?
Bartkowski thinks religion can be good for kids for three reasons. First, religious networks provide social support to parents, he said, and this can improve their parenting skills. Children who are brought into such networks and hear parental messages reinforced by other adults may also “take more to heart the messages that they get in the home,” he said.
Secondly, the types of values and norms that circulate in religious congregations tend to be self-sacrificing and pro-family, Bartkowski told LiveScience. These “could be very, very important in shaping how parents relate to their kids, and then how children develop in response,” he said.
Finally, religious organizations imbue parenting with sacred meaning and significance, he said.
University of Virginia sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox, who was not involved in the study, agrees. At least for the most religious parents, “getting their kids into heaven is more important than getting their kids into Harvard,” Wilcox said.
But as for why religious organizations might provide more of a boost to family life than secular organizations designed to do the same thing, that’s still somewhat of a mystery, said Annette Mahoney, a psychologist at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, also not involved in the research. Mahoney wondered: “Is there anything about religion and spirituality that sets it apart?”
Unanswered questions
Bartkowski points out that one limitation of his study, to be published in the journal Social Science Research , is that it did not compare how denominations differed with regards to their effects on kids.
“We really don’t know if conservative Protestant kids are behaving better than Catholic kids or behaving better than mainline Protestant kids or Jewish kids,” he said.
It’s also possible that the correlation between religion and child development is the other way around, he said. In other words, instead of religion having a positive effect on youth, maybe the parents of only the best behaved children feel comfortable in a religious congregation.
“There are certain expectations about children’s behavior within a religious context, particularly within religious worship services,” he said. These expectations might frustrate parents, he said, and make congregational worship “a less viable option if they feel their kids are really poorly behaved.”
Copyright © 2007 Imaginova Corp. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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What are you going to teach your children about relgion?
by reneeisorym in) take them to your church and encourage them to learn about other faiths too..
) don't teach them anything about religion..
) encourage atheism..
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reneeisorym
1.) Take them to your church and encourage them to learn about other faiths too.
2.) Don't teach them anything about religion.
3.) Encourage atheism.
4.) Take them to church . . period.
5.) Take them too all kinds of places and let them choose where they want to go.
(Maybe I haven't thought of all the options -- feel free to add to the list)
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Double Wow
by mrsjones5 inthis relates to my last topic http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/147860/1.ashx and the one prior to that http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/147597/1.ashx.
ok i sent that card.
i expected maybe a contact but if it didn't happen that was ok too.
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reneeisorym
I agree: Double Wow!
This has got to be stressful to you. I hope things turn out well as this develops.
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The Positive Thread
by Superfine Apostate inpost something positive.. .
i'll make the start: after years of fading, my believing wife stopped attending the meetings also and i no longer have to be careful about what i'm talking about when hanging around with the rest of my jw friends.
for me this is quite an achievement and i'm happy with it.. .
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reneeisorym
It's supposed to be 82 degrees today ... It sure does feel wonderful -- just odd for December.
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Has Anyone Recieved Their Secret Santa Gifts?
by Nosferatu inoh my god!!!
a thread that isn't about rr!
but seriously, has anybody recieved their gifts yet?.
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reneeisorym
I got mine! ..I got the most amazing ornament ever! It's beautiful.
My gift was sent last week so it will probably not be reveived until early next week.
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I'm converting again.
by reneeisorym in2 years ago i left jws.
i went to a baptist church because it was what my husband was.
i knew i wanted to go to church but which one i really didn't know yet.. two years later, i think i have made up my mind: presbyterian.. anyone have anything they want to share?
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I'll allow you to examine the differences between the evidence supporting the Bible vs. the evidence supporting the book of Mormon yourself. No need to even get into that conversation.
In that case, why don't you refrain from teaching them Christianity is true, and let God reach out to them in his own way? If that's what you believe happens, of course.
To do that would be denying the means God has used to reach people. He has used Christians to minster to people for centuries. God's "own way" is through other Christians. (Rom 10:14)
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I'm converting again.
by reneeisorym in2 years ago i left jws.
i went to a baptist church because it was what my husband was.
i knew i wanted to go to church but which one i really didn't know yet.. two years later, i think i have made up my mind: presbyterian.. anyone have anything they want to share?
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reneeisorym
Junction-Guy, you used a little reasoning that wasn't very sound. It's ok because we all do it from time to time. I can't tell you how many times I've painted myself in a corner. Just remember that we are in search of truth, not to win an argument.
The answer to the reason we teach our children Christianity is because we firmly believe it to be true. It has nothing to do with the final consequences. You can't have "faith" if you don't genuinely believe it.
For example, imagine if the Mormons consequences sounded better if they were right and worse if they were wrong. They get to be gods one day and their hell was described as worse than the Baptists. So you figure that it would be better to be a Mormon because you don't want to go to the Mormon hell. (I hope this makes sense!) Thing is, you don't make this decision based on consequences for each religion. You examine the Bible and Book of Mormon and decide which is true. You follow the Bible because of it's history instead of the book of Mormon. I do truely believe that God gives us the gift of faith and it is not near as much choice as we want to believe. But I was trying to reason on a human level and not one of theology.
Back to the subject of our modivation for following Christ, I will never expect my children to serve out of fear. I will never disown them and fear of hell is a horrible reason to follow Christ. The reason any of us who are Christians profess faith is because we genuinely love God. I left behind a life of fear a long time ago. The only fear I have is more of a feeling of respect than fear.
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I'm converting again.
by reneeisorym in2 years ago i left jws.
i went to a baptist church because it was what my husband was.
i knew i wanted to go to church but which one i really didn't know yet.. two years later, i think i have made up my mind: presbyterian.. anyone have anything they want to share?
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reneeisorym
I don't want them denied the very thing we're congratulating Renee for, the complete freedom to make a personal choice about what to believe about everything around us. So of course I hope she considers this, and doesn't use her free will to deprive her children of theirs.
My children will not have a choice but it is not because of me. It is up to God to choose them.
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Do you still get that feeling?
by reneeisorym ini went the taco bell across the street from the convention center for lunch.
on the scrolling markee it said "jehovah's witness convention dec 8-9" .
i got this tingle and nausea feeling!..
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reneeisorym
there's garbage on both sides of that avenue!
I can't help it. I work in the ghetto. I can go to McDonald's, Taco Bell, What-a-Burger, Waffle House, Popeye's, or Wendy's. Yum yum
