There's people who want to but cannot heave children, people who would like to adopt children and countries (mostly in Europe) having a very low birth rate and in need of children. There are also people performing abortions, people having too many children to support them and people neglecting their children - in emotional development, education and other aspects. <BR
(As an expetant father, abortion is really not the subject I'd like to talk about, but the article from Da Kine Link gave me some thought. Why am I not just posting a reply to the article? Well, my view is not really in line with the discussaion, and It's kinda long for a forum post. So here
I just felt my baby move through the skin of my wife's tummy. It's a special experience I can tell You (if You didn't have it already and I'm old news) and somehow awakening in a new way. Although I knew I would be getting a child in a few months, only now do I fully understand that there's a living creature waiting to happen in my wife's womb. So funny, how we can kn
Anything we do is on some level (usually on a very basic level) influenced by greed. Don't agree? Well, You should. We work because we wont more - and we don't stop when we've earned enough if we can get even more. We Have children because WE want to have children (to satisfy our urge) - not because we want to make a new person. We spend time with our loved ones, give
OK, I'm very presumptuous, and suggest in the title that I'll tell You why anybody writes this things. But not really. Here I'll think about why I do it and maybe it is valid for somebody else. Maybe even You. So, why do I do it? Is it because I have no one to talk to about some things? Well, no, I have a wife that is also my very good friend (no, she is not
Listening about all this trials for war crimes, I can't help but wonder how is it that the war is not considered a crime by itself? Let's be honest, it's the killing and destruction of property of the highest degree. But OK everybody's doing it so it's not a crime. I don't like this kind of reasoning but if we don't consider war a crime, how can we explain t
This blogg is prompted by a discussion tied to another one of my rants , and specially to the comments made by a reader that set me thinking. Anyway, the problem is this - we (most of us) live in so called 'democracies'. Why 'so called'? Read on... To define democracy, I went <a href="https://www.
Sorry if I offended You. I think the decisions of the state are at the same time the decisions of all the citizens of the same state that pay the taxes - therefore financing the decisions. This is probably the statement that can be discussed in some other blogg. Our opinions and views of morality probably differ as a result of growing up in a very different environments. This in itself is probably the best answer to my initial post. Thank You. </
You're right - I guess most parents don't. Thinking about games some more, I reached a conclusion they are just a form of interactive fiction - better than passive fiction (regular TV), but fiction nontheless. From there it's natural for the parent to be involved in the selection of fiction their child is exposed to and to decide how much fiction the child shoud be exposed to. There is a real world somehwhere I know, and somehow I feel that the ch
Thank You, this is pretty informative. I was also thinking somewhere on these lines but as a gamer (a hobby and a profession for me), I cannot completely avoid games as a useful tool in teaching children about the world (add to that that my house if full of games so it's quite hard to completely dismiss them and also the fact that the child will learn about games from other childern (s)he meets and will want to try them). Maybe the selection
This is a rant about (video and computer) games and their effect on children. Nothing quite new, but somehow I don't feel anybody has given a definitive or objective statement about the subject. Neither can I but I can put forward some questions and think about them... Let's see: (talking about young children - ages 3-8) - games are a tool for learni
Well, at the same time this country has some quite nice things going for it. One of the nicest things is that there's almost no laws but the basic ones (driving laws, not killing people on the streets laws, no taking things in the shop without paying...) - well, there are, obviously, but if You 'know the right people' and can pay your way out You don't need to obey them. That's why I think here the real human nature comes out - without much fear of pun
If the people who are "successful" have no morality, in your opinion, WHY would you want to teach your children to emulate them? Are you insinuating that you can't be "successful" in life if you hold fast to your morals? As for the first part of Your question, I want my child to be as happy as pos
I just don't understand why they (the girls in the article) have to go so far to get what they want when they could probably get male prostitutes in every bigger town. And Great Britain being a multi-racial country, they could probably get thai-males without problems. OK it's cheaper in Bangok, but the trip there eats up the savings...
Thanks for the replies. I agree the 'teaching by doing' is the best approach, but somehow I'm not convinced it will serve the child best. Maybe it would be better to teach it to emulate people who are more succesfull. And in the world of today most of them have no morality as I think of it.
No, I'm not going to write some 'sense and sensibility'-based stuff. What I'm interested today is how to instill a sense of morality in a child or, to set it even more plain - how to make a person distinugish between good and evil - without having to resort to a 'carrot and stick' method. I mean, explaining plainly doesn't work - even on grown-ups. So how do
Seeing as how I'll soon become a parent, each day I have some thoughts about the way I should bring up my child (and no, we don't know which gender it wil be - yet). Should I try to impose only a few moral guidelines, leave it all to the school and society or try to transfer to it my complete view of the world and value system? Each of these solutions is doomed to fai
Sems to me the well known rant about 5ex being the hottest thing on Internet is getting older by the minute. Point in favor: 3 refferals to my article "My neck hurts" and just 1 to "No Dress Around". Note - none of this articles actually has much to do with hurting necks (except that mine did hurt) or dresses (except to say there is no dress around). But it can be exp
So, as from two days ago, I am officially married. Nothing much has changed, except I have to wear this ring on my hand. The ceremony was OK, the food afterwards was OK, but somehow I don't feel as if all of it was necessary. For me at least. For my parents, on the other hand, it was the marking of a point in life. A point that says 'You have rised a decendan
It does. Seems I shouldn't have ben sitting in the open doors to the balcony yesterday. It woke me up too early and doesn't let me think of anything else. I had some other thngs on my mind that I meant to write about but now the only fxxxxxx thing I can think about is the pain in my neck. Aren't we the happy creatures? Supposed to be so high and mighty, walking o
Thinking about the change that will soon take place in my life, I discovered the easiest way to treate it - as a new level. RPG players will probably understand what I'm talking about, as will most gamers. The enemies become tougher, the setting is slightly (but not too much) different, and most of the time You get new abilities, tools and weapons. I'll cert
Thanks. I got the rings from the goldsmith today. Most of the things are arranged. As for the baby, that will be another story.
Questioning myself has come naturaly to me as I prepare for the wedding (and a child on the way) so one of the questions I'm asking myself is - am I egoistic? Elaborating on that, I also ask mister Me - Am I looking at things only from my point of view? Am I considering the events only evaluating the effects that affect me? Am I 'me-centric'? Let's put aside
Probably different country. And thanks, but I just hope all of this chaos ends as soon as possible so I can get back to living.
I never knew wedding involved so much work . Look at what we had to do to get married (we didn't yet): - We had to go to some sort of seminar for 5 days in a row (5x4 hours of quite boring stuff) - We had to collect 4 documents (2 different per person) from various officials and than go to the communal centre to get a permit (paying money for each docume
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