I've had both experiences and it really doesn't change the experience - it's still a surprise whether you find out at 4 months or at 9 months. Finding out earlier makes planning a bit easier. But it doesn't help with everything that happens after they're born.
Posts by Scully
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5Interesting, being a parent - pre- sonogram
by Gregor inmy wife and i teamed up and had 5 children between 1966 and 1978 (she did the hard part) we never knew the sex until the the little sweety was born.. now days, we know if we're having another grandson or grandaughter months before they're born.. big difference.. names = male or female?
better have one or the other ready for the birth cert.
info.. clothes are not that critical.
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Kid charged over $500 to a game
by skeeter1 inyesterday, i got our credit card statement, and looked at the charges.
over $500 to itunes.
questioned everyone, and it's for "jewels" for a kim kardashian game my 13 year old charged.
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Hey Skeeter,
Several years ago, my then-13-year-old found a loophole to the long-distance block I'd placed on her cell phone. She racked up over $600 worth of charges in one month.
I called the cell phone company, livid with them that there was a loophole that circumvented my expressed limits on the account. The agent I spoke to about refunding the charges made some snarky remark attempting to put the blame on me. I lost my $h!t on the guy, and he finally apologized for criticizing my parenting. I had done my due diligence in adding restrictions to the service and it was up to the company to ensure that my expressed wishes were carried out.
As it turned out, the company was not aware that the loophole existed, and when they tested the sequence of steps my kid had used to work around the block, they realized there was the potential for a lot of people to abuse the loophole and circumvent an oversight in their programming. In the end, they were happier to refund one customer (me!) "before [my kid] announced to all her friends [and they to their friends] what the glitch was and all your parents have to do is complain to the cell phone company and get a refund."
That was one of the fastest fixes I've ever seen done by a cell phone provider.
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book about JWs "Watch How We Walk" nominated for prestigious Giller Prize
by Scully inhttp://jenniferlovegrove.wordpress.com/watch-how-we-walk/.
can't wait to read this book, by a canadian author.. .
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book about JWs "Watch How We Walk" nominated for prestigious Giller Prize
by Scully inhttp://jenniferlovegrove.wordpress.com/watch-how-we-walk/.
can't wait to read this book, by a canadian author.. .
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CoCo:
You can read an interview/article with the author here: http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/10/08/jennifer-lovegrove-on-jehovahs-witnesses-and-writing/
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book about JWs "Watch How We Walk" nominated for prestigious Giller Prize
by Scully inhttp://jenniferlovegrove.wordpress.com/watch-how-we-walk/.
can't wait to read this book, by a canadian author.. .
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Well, a watcher, do let us know when your novel is nominated for a prestigious award, so we can critique the trailer for it.
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book about JWs "Watch How We Walk" nominated for prestigious Giller Prize
by Scully inhttp://jenniferlovegrove.wordpress.com/watch-how-we-walk/.
can't wait to read this book, by a canadian author.. .
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The top prize is $100,000 and the finalists will each receive $10,000.
The long list for the prize includes the following 12 titles:
The twelve books longlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize are:
Waiting for the Man by Arjun Basu (ECW Press)
The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis (HarperCollins Canada)
American Innovations by Rivka Galchen (HarperCollins Canada)
Tell by Frances Itani (HarperCollins Canada)
Watch How We Walk by Jennifer LoveGrove (ECW Press)
Us Conductors by Sean Michaels (Random House Canada)
Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab by Shani Mootoo (Doubleday Canada)
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O’Neill (HarperCollins Canada)
Paradise and Elsewhere by Kathy Page (Biblioasis)
My October by Claire Holden Rothman (Penguin Canada)
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews (Knopf Canada)
The Ever After of Ashwin Rao by Padma Viswanathan (Random House Canada)
The shortlist will be announced on Monday, Oct. 6, and the winner will be revealed at a gala ceremony to honour the finalists on Monday, Nov. 9.
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book about JWs "Watch How We Walk" nominated for prestigious Giller Prize
by Scully inhttp://jenniferlovegrove.wordpress.com/watch-how-we-walk/.
can't wait to read this book, by a canadian author.. .
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http://jenniferlovegrove.wordpress.com/watch-how-we-walk/
Can't wait to read this book, by a Canadian author.
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Watchtower Legal Department targeting Facebook and Youtube users
by Londo111 infrom an email i received of a conversation had with people from patterson:.
it seems that the wts legal dept.
has been working with the fb [facebook] legal dept for about a year and also with youtube whoever they are, to enforce transparency.
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the WTS pushed the issue to stop apostate talk
I wonder when they'll figure out that they have no power over so-called Apostates™? Helllooooooo!!! They kicked us out! They aren't the boss of us anymore!!!!
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Spiritually strong people don't care what others think of them.
by hoser injesus is a good example of this.
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Within the JW culture, there is a *huge* emphasis on avoiding behaviour that could potentially Stumble™ someone else. It doesn't matter whether you are deemed Spiritually Strong™ or Spiritually Weak™, if someone takes offense at anything you do, they can make the claim that your behaviour has the potential to Stumble™ someone else, and you are expected to cease and desist without delay, lest you become Bloodguilty™.
Personally, I feel this is one of the methods used by JW bullies to manipulate/control other JWs into conforming to their wishes.
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Will the kingdom hall of jehovahs witnesses signs eventually come down?
by hoser init is clear that the leaders of the jehovahs witness religion are rebranding.
so as a strategy they could have both the jw.org signs and kingdom hall signs running at the same time and then in a few years instruct congregations to remove the kingdom hall signs.
this happens all the time with commercial products when there are mergers and company takeovers.. .
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Perhaps there will be increasing paranoia fostered regarding coming Persecution™ as tensions escalate between the extreme Christian and Muslim factions, and pressure on government to enforce separation of church and state which will become fodder for WTS leaders to push a more urgent end times agenda.
Maybe JW.org will eventually become a hub for active JWs to set up WTS approved virtual meetings, with congregations meeting online to receive instruction directly from the GB. It would negate the need to have a dedicated house of worship, meaning property could be sold, and the revenue put directly into the WTS's pocket. Then the funds that would otherwise be donated to maintain the KHs could be sent directly to the WTS by individual JWs. Each Publisher™ could be appointed as a licensee, with permissions to print out (at their own expense) literature such as magazines, brochures and tracts.
It's a brilliant idea, because it simultaneously isolates JWs from one another, while creating the illusion of a progressive Worldwide Brotherhood™. The power of the cult psychology will become more entrenched, making it easier for more extreme, i.e., Loyal™, JWs to spiral into very dangerous mindsets, open to suggestion that might otherwise be dismissed in the presence of more rational minds.