Were the 'Good Ole Days' Really Any Good?
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Thursday, January 27, 2011
Rachel inadvertently kicked over a hornet’s nest yesterday with her post about the differences between modern day and old fashioned parenting styles.
I decided it was best to close comments there, but I don’t want anyone to feel that the discussion the post generated is being shut down. I think there are good and bad things that could be said about both the more relaxed style of parenting of the past and the more “protective” parenting many of us practice today.
Are modern day parents controlling and over-protective? Were parents of previous generations neglectful and abusive? I have hunch that the truth is somewhere in between, but I hope you will weigh in with your thoughts and observations.
Kicking It Old School
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Comments are closed on this post. Please keep talking here!
A friend sent along this email, one of those uber-forwarded gems, and I loved it. Are you from this generation? What else do you remember from this grand era?
To all the kids who survived the 1930’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked +/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate... READ MORE
Ten Questions for 2010
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Whatever your plans for today or tonight, the beginning of a New Year invites us to reflect on the past and the future.
I posted these discussion-starting questions last year and decided to re-post them this year. You can use them for personal reflection or family discussion:
1. Did I grow closer to God in the past year? How will I grow closer to God this year?
2. What is one new thing I will pray... READ MORE
Blast from the Past
Posted by Danielle Bean in Just me on Monday, October 13, 2008
In honor of their tenth birthday, Google is offering a peek at what the search engine was like back in 2001.
The World Wide Web and the world have both changed a lot since 2001 ... If you searched on “Michael Phelps” in 2001 for instance, you were probably looking for the scientist, not the swimmer, “ipod” didn’t refer to a music player, and “youtube” didn’t refer to much of anything.
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