The beginning of my junior year in college featured a fun little freshman that my roommates and I made fun of/tried to bringunder our wing. We brought him to church and incorporated him in a Bible study, and he would often come to our room seemingly as a sort of refuge. After a few months, [...]
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What is a big deal?
Posted in Home Life, Human Nature on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sheltering children from “Real life”?
Posted in Education, Home Life, Human Nature on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some think it is bad to “shelter” children or prevent them from exposure to evil, because it will give a false impression of the way the world is or some other reason. There are two great quotes I found responding to this. This idea is mistaken because it doesn’t take into account character formation. People will [...]
Women Voting
Posted in Culture, Home Life, Mothers and Work on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some things are thought to be so obvious that we never think of reasons for and against them. Whether or not women should vote may be one of these things. School seems to teach us that there is no possible reason why society would not want women to vote aside from male thirst for domination [...]
Work and Family
Posted in Book Reviews, Culture, Home Life, Mothers and Work on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is an awesome book Review of Brian C. Robertson’s Forced Labor: What’s Wrong with Balancing Work and Family (Same book hardcover called: There’s no Place Like Work: How Business, Government, and Our Obsession with Work Have Driven Parents from Home) by Catherine Ruth Pakaluk Harvard University As a mother with young [...]
Chesterton Short
Posted in Home Life, Toys on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It can take a bit of effort to get into the flow of reading G.K. Chesterton, though it is well worth it. He is often tongue-in-cheek, and is distinctive for seeing the romance and bigness of everything. This is a short essay of his… THE TERROR OF A TOY It would be too high [...]
Work out your Salvation
Posted in Home Life on September 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A quote from Plotinus (300AD) And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon his work. So do you [...]
Consuming consumption
Posted in Home Life on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Ideas Have Consequences by Richard Weaver: …since modern man has not defined his way of life, he initiates himself into an endless series when he enters the struggle for an “adequate” living. One of the strangest disparities of history lies between the sense of abundance felt by older and simpler societies and the sense [...]
What is this crazy creature?
Posted in Education, Home Life, Human Nature, Mothers and Work on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Key Issue This will hopefully be a bird’s eye view of a lot of the discussion and focus of this website and orient our pursuits and help to bring together many of the topics that will likely come up as time goes by. There are few areas of human life where differences in one’s [...]
Nature nurture
Posted in Education, Home Life on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I recently saw an article about “Nature deficit disorder”. Despite how gross of a name that is (like “other homonid interaction deficit disorder” instead of “lonely”) it is interesting it has come on the scene. I am starting to see a trend that technology went wild through the 20th century and everyone assumed it was [...]
History of work and home life
Posted in Home Life, Mothers and Work on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“We have too easily resigned ourselves to a way of life and work that separates us from those we love most, say the Barnetts. Is it for this that people marry and have children–to go their separate ways all day, to see each other only during leisure hours, to know each others’ daily activities only [...]
