Motherhood as a mission field. This is an older post that is now in the free book, Mom Enough, through DesiringGod. Great post. It is the little things that matter. This reminds me, again, that I want to reread Sally Clarkson's book, Ministry of Motherhood.
Top teacher in Ohio resigns "to start an after-school mentoring program for at-risk students in hopes of saving them from the school-to-prison pipeline." She cites Common Core's 'drill em and kill em' atmosphere as the driving force behind her decision. Personally, I am finding it difficult to understand what is and isn't really going on with Common Core testing and whatnot. As one teacher in this article stated, "the rules keep changing."
A how-to to make your own little portable watercolor tin from an Altoids tin and water bottle lids. I also have been watching Sea Lemon's YT videos on how to do bookbinding. I know how to do this some already because of a little book I have, but it only has so many and the illustrations are static.
A not fun bit of reading. Here's an article, quite lengthy, about how social networking and the internet in general are not anonymous. And that people are petty and vicious. I didn't, and don't, know who the individuals are in this article, but I can understand how their lives have been forever changed. And for what? One, two, three, or more 'tweets' that people have taken offense. Said in personal conversation even nowadays can get a person blasted all over the world. What bothers me most is the statement here by one person who purposely set out to trash another: "The fact that she was a [person in a particular position] made it delicious," he wrote. "It's satisfying to be able to say, 'O.K., let's make a racist tweet...count this time.' And it did. I'd do it again"...He ended his email by saying that he had a feeling she'd be "fine eventually, if not already." He added: "Everyone's attention span is so short. They'll be mad about something new today." While he said that he doesn't wake up hoping to get someone fired, I really don't think he thought -or perhaps cares?- that he could get someone fired. I don't relish the thought that he got what he dished out but after all he did to attract attention to one person's tweet, it would make sense for him to not do the same thing that he attacked. And yet he did. I don't think he got it as bad as she (I'm not going looking) but a little taste was all he needed apparently. The final note in the article: Social media is so perfectly designed to manipulate our desire for approval, and that is what led to her undoing. Her tormentors were instantly congratulated as they took [her] down, bit by bit, and so they continued to do so."
It is the way it is because it is allowed to be so.
Top teacher in Ohio resigns "to start an after-school mentoring program for at-risk students in hopes of saving them from the school-to-prison pipeline." She cites Common Core's 'drill em and kill em' atmosphere as the driving force behind her decision. Personally, I am finding it difficult to understand what is and isn't really going on with Common Core testing and whatnot. As one teacher in this article stated, "the rules keep changing."
A how-to to make your own little portable watercolor tin from an Altoids tin and water bottle lids. I also have been watching Sea Lemon's YT videos on how to do bookbinding. I know how to do this some already because of a little book I have, but it only has so many and the illustrations are static.
A not fun bit of reading. Here's an article, quite lengthy, about how social networking and the internet in general are not anonymous. And that people are petty and vicious. I didn't, and don't, know who the individuals are in this article, but I can understand how their lives have been forever changed. And for what? One, two, three, or more 'tweets' that people have taken offense. Said in personal conversation even nowadays can get a person blasted all over the world. What bothers me most is the statement here by one person who purposely set out to trash another: "The fact that she was a [person in a particular position] made it delicious," he wrote. "It's satisfying to be able to say, 'O.K., let's make a racist tweet...count this time.' And it did. I'd do it again"...He ended his email by saying that he had a feeling she'd be "fine eventually, if not already." He added: "Everyone's attention span is so short. They'll be mad about something new today." While he said that he doesn't wake up hoping to get someone fired, I really don't think he thought -or perhaps cares?- that he could get someone fired. I don't relish the thought that he got what he dished out but after all he did to attract attention to one person's tweet, it would make sense for him to not do the same thing that he attacked. And yet he did. I don't think he got it as bad as she (I'm not going looking) but a little taste was all he needed apparently. The final note in the article: Social media is so perfectly designed to manipulate our desire for approval, and that is what led to her undoing. Her tormentors were instantly congratulated as they took [her] down, bit by bit, and so they continued to do so."
It is the way it is because it is allowed to be so.
Thanks for posting the link to the Mom Enough book, have downloaded it. I like Nancy Wilson's books too.
ReplyDeleteWe made portable watercolor tins out of small tins. I even was able to use a thick piece of cardboard, cut to size, for another layer of colors. 12 in all in a little tin. We even take them camping for nature studies.
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