mightynancy
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Yay for you, Just Girl! You sound so happy - I'm glad for you. :)
While we do wear "Sunday best" to church, I do allow my 10-year-old to wear pretty flip flops. I am lucky to get her there at all. She has a pair of sparkly purple flipflops with flowers on the straps, and that's what she wears. I'm sure the Lord is happy to have her there no matter what is on her feet. It is truly the best we can do right now. :)
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New flooring for the upstairs bathroom. :)
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I bolded the important part.I had a cute white suit that I had never worn.
Wear it! Go to a discounter (Target, Ross, TJMaxx) and get a pair of appropriate shoes - don't spend a ton, because you'll probably only wear them a few times. Enjoy. And best wishes to you on your baptism day!
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Love this:
There are times when you can break a law and not sin.
This makes me uncomfortable. Are not all people my brothers and sisters? On which side of a manmade line they were born means nothing to me.but I think we have plenty of people in the U.S. we should be compassionate to before worrying about illegal immigrants
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I agree with Apple. Perhaps the ward could call someone to be with the young man (someone cool, like a recently-returned missionary, or other college-aged fellow). Or, depending on how large your class is, one of you could sit between this boy and the other kids. He is bound to notice what you're doing - so I'd be honest with him about it. "First of all, I love you and want to sit with you. You and I know that sometimes you can't help it and hit Jason. I love Jason, too, and would rather you hit me than him. You can still see him and talk to him, I'll just be in the way if things get out of hand."
I don't know how the school handled it before he left, but we have students who are allowed to request to leave the room to de-escalate. He's at an age where he can become self-aware, and when he feels like he's going to lose it, he should have someplace safe to excuse himself to (with supervision as appropriate). If he's in therapy, his parents could ask the counselor to make a church plan with the child.
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I love that passage! Thanks for sharing it. :)
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I'd google Teacher Appreciation ideas - there are lots of those that could transfer over to other fields. :)
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I think it sounds sanctimonious to say, "As a Mormon, I won't lie." It's as though people who are not Mormon have no issue with prevarication. It has nothing to do with being afraid to declare who I am, and everything to do with not sounding like a self-righteous jerk.
When I'm pressured to do something wrong, I will say that I won't trade my integrity for an inspection report/candy bar/test grade/whatever.
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I want to learn a non-Western language, keep bees, and catch a foul ball at Dodger Stadium.
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You truly are warped.
You truly are chicken. You have, like, a kabillion times the mass of a bee.
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Now that's funny.
It's just so circular.
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I often think of taking up beekeeping, but I'm not sure of the time commitment. It's not even that I want the honey and wax so much, it's just that I adore bees. I follow them around the yard and everything, especially the big, fat ones. True confessions.
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Slam, I beg to differ. I don't think Easter is second in importance to Christmas. Perhaps our level of involvement outwardly favors Christmas, but Easter is so much holier.
We had Stake Conference on Easter this year, and I couldn't go due to illness.
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My first time I was SHOCKED that we had to have locks on the lockers. In the Temple?
There weren't always locks - I had things stolen from a locker in the Los Angeles Temple.
I think the Temple affords us an opportunity to shed the cares/temptations of the world, but we have to prepare ourselves to take advantage of it. I doubt there's anywhere on the earth where Satan cannot go, if we are speaking of locations.
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I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. Try again?
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LOL My mother, before she retired, was an interior designer. Every now and then she'd have an LDS client who pretty much wanted the "Celestial Room Look." I don't think many of them articulated it that way, but the designers did!
As for the room in the OP, I think it's tacky and a little sacreligious to call it a Celestial Room. How about a "sanctuary" or "study" or something like that? Besides, if they want it to be celestial, they'd have to get rid of that hideously telestial table.
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As an educator, I am under obligation by law (not to mention decency) to report suspected abuse. In my position, I am to report it to my administrator and follow up to ensure that the call to Child Services has been made. If it has not, I must make the call myself. We have a 24-hour window in which to act.
I find it icky that the Church would want bishops/leaders to call the Church hotline instead of local civic authorities - it smacks of the very thing we're so often accused of (looking out for our image rather than improving the reality).
I don't know what the parent's problem was with reporting these crimes to the police, but the moment the Bishop got wind of it, he should've placed that call.
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Maybe it would help to have her pray for a restful night herself? If she's old enough to get it (I'd say 7 or more), read about the gifts of the spirit together, and encourage her to identify the one(s) she has and to develop others. There are a few I can think of that could take the place of "needing" a priesthood blessing so often.
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I usually ask, "How many Jesus Christs do you think there are?" but I'm not known for playing nice.
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Let's face it, the righteous followers of God have always been in the minority
This was in another thread, and I didn't want to derail it (more).
Do you think that righteous people are truly the minority? I don't mean covenant-making, LDS-church-going, white-shirt-wearing people alone. I mean people who love God and do the best they can to gain His approval.
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Keep in mind that the IWF has its own agenda, and Ms. Lukas's conclusions are colored by it. I can find you studies that show different conclusions from sources with other biases.
The Gender Pay Gap by Industry - NYTimes.com
Equal Pay and the Gender Gap: Men Still Outearn Women - TIME This one includes stats controlled for a number of factors, such as experience or whether they belong to a union (!).
This recession, coupled with higher university enrollment among women, will lead to some interesting data in the decade to come. There are a lot of sociological factors at work in this arena.
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Unsolicited advice is best accepted with a cheerful "Thank you!" and then you can ignore it as you please.
Being confident in your own choices is one way to shut down unwanted advice - if you're insecure, you're defensive, and that escalates a disagreement.
Besides, if your methods are working well for your children, they'll behave pretty well, and the grandparents will have no desire to discipline them. :)
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I know of a private school here, and a public school my friend's kids attend in France, that are the same. It's a problem for my friend to work out, though; her daughter was recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. The school will have to accomodate her; it would be much easier for the little one to carry lunch from home.
That said, I see what the kids eat/don't eat at my school - it's pretty much a wash whether it's school lunch or lunch from home. They serve a lovely "healthy choices" bar with fresh veggies, fruits, and other yummy, healthy foods. I think the kids who actually eat the veggies from the bar are the ones who also eat them at home. The other kids just take the crackers.
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I want to know more about the "perks." What on earth do you mean, Gwen?
Schollarship and genius
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