Sure you can, girl !!! It rhymes with "stinks" and starts with a "d". I was trying to figure out what five letter word she had used that would be on the Olympic athletes .... what I neglected to notice was that "athletes" was plural, not possessive. MY BAD.
Yes, Girl, YOU BAD!!! I wondered why you were having so much trouble trying to figure out what was censured!
I'm green, I guess, or the 'n' is throwing me...... We better lighten up or we'll get moderated :wink:
Ok .. how about rhymes with W . I . N . K . S then replace the "W" with the "D." Honestly ... tell me you've heard THAT word before !!!! Kathe
DINKS?!?!??? :lol: :lol: Are you kidding me????? :lol: What is that??? :lol: :lol: Is that Canadian slang? Kathe, you crack me up!!!
WOOHOO ... she said it even !!! I knew it ... EVERYONE knows that word ... and this will get me lynched for sure, but even the fundamentalist Christians know THAT one !!! But sssshhhhhh ... they would lynch me cuz of my peace sign on the left. They think it's the sign of ssssssssshhhhhhhhhhSATANsssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhh. Kathe
Well, I consider myself a fundamental Christian and I haven't lynched anyone to date....of course, I'm not even 30 yet, so I still have time :wink: I have never heard that last slang term you used, and I've been around the block..... About the peace sign.....well, we'll just leave that one at the doorstep :roll: :lol:
Go to a public school and I would bet my life that you would hear that slang word around there (I know you would in our community - it's said more than yes or no or please and thank you). As for the board book and the pictures that lie within, I think it is repulsive that someone would choose to allow those pictures to be printed! When I think of board books, I think of very young children - of what importance is the anatomy of a goat (reproductive functioning anyway) to a three or four year old? Yes, it is the way God designed them to be and if you were to go to a zoo you might see that, but not in a book! This reminds me of the curriculum we're having crammed down our throats here - it's absolutely repulsive! (I won't touch this one anymore - makes me MAD :x and sick to my stomach). As a mom, I want to be the one who teaches all of my children the neccessities of life and I'm sorry but that doesn't include the anatomy of a goat (nor the explicit depictions of the male/female reproductive systems as our middle school health curriculum does). Becky, if I were in your shoes, I would be absolutely irrate (as I'm sure you probably are) and would have brought the book back. Such a sad world we live in. They managed to pollute the minds of public school children with their crude curriculum (in their minds their probably saying mission accomplished) and so now they're working on polluting the minds of pre-school children!!! PLEASE...No offense meant to anyone at all - just venting. Brenda
Reminds me of when I was in a Health Science class LOOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGG ago. We were having a class on the birds and the bees, and the teacher asked if anyone knew what a "prophylactic" was. No response. What about a "condom"? One boy tentatively raised his hand. Wasn't it kind of like an apartment? (This was back when condos were a new thing). What about a "rubber"? And ALL the boys raised their hands on that one! (We were about 13 or 14 at the time).
I must be a really good kid, because I still don't know that word. Maybe if there was no n, like I said before... Kathe, one year at Awana my niece was doing face painting. She made peace signs on some of the kids, and I got ordered to make her stop. The pastor's wife was too busy looking important to do it herself. Before that I had never heard controversy with the peace sign. Isn't that why they call it a peace sign? I was too small then, but wasn't it used to protest the Vietnam war? Would someone tell me exactly why the peace sign is supposed to be bad?
What I heard is that it was an upside-down broken cross that was used in Satanic rituals. Of course, that's just what I've "heard" once upon a time. Don't know whether it's true or not, but I also know that most people who use a "peace" sign means it just as a "peace" sign.
Becky, Do you still go to AWANA? (That's my passion - the ministry is AWESOME) Sorry to get off topic...(but I guess that's the name fo the thread right) Brenda
Jackie gave a good discription of the peace sign issue. It is also encompassed by a circle, which I believe to typically symbolize Satan's control over it. It is used that way in occult symbolism (pentagram, for example). I used to wear a peace sign in school until a friend of mine told me about all that. I still didn't buy it, but I removed it because it offended her. Then, as an adult, my husband and I had been studying various cult-related things in pop-culture and I read more about it then.
I am far from offended!! I thought this started as a discussion about a childs book with a goat with a penius. Personally I would not throw it out. I would have tucked it away until the child was old enough to understand. Then again my sisters were older and very open with me about the facts and I try to keep it that way. No kid believes the stork left him on the door step anymore. Do they? I don't know! Any way we have a 10 yr 8 yr and 6 yr old. I would not have been ashamed if my 6 yr old pointed out that the goat had a "winkie". I guess I would have tried to explaine they were making baby goats. My sons are young enough to think if you kiss a girl you gotta marry her and that hugging with out a shirt will produce a baby. Ha that sounds funny to me. Keep the book it may be of educational use one day.
Does everyone understand this book wasn't educational, except to tell you the name of the animals? No, our church does not have Awana anymore. I was a Cubbies leader, and a Sparks Director and Leader. I did not like Awana, at least how it was done at my church. In Cubbies, one of the other leaders decided she would call all the shots, so I stood around for 2 hrs each week. I left midyear. In Sparks I was a leader under a husband and wife that were a pair of phonies.They told me to come up with activities to do with my Sparkle Time group, and I did. Well, they were not doing things with their groups. My kids would tell their kids what we did together, and apparently the other kids asked why they didn't have outings and such. I got told to stop because I was creating jealousy and that's not good for the club. I was encouraged to go through the Skipper, Climber and Hiker handbooks with the kids. Everytime I tried to let the kids in my group hear my verses the husband or wife would find a reason to interrupt, and my book never got signed. I always made sure my kids were done and that no other kids were waiting to be heard. It ended up they were not going through the books, and I guess they felt I was going to make them look bad. I had to ask another leader and the Commander to sign my stupid book!! I left Awana during my first year as Sparks Director. After the husband/wife directors left, their little girl was still in that class. They would find a reason to come in the class every few minutes, and the class just never got a chance to settle into a groove with me as director. Kids wouldn't say their verses, parents got upset. The last straw was when a girl disqualified herself from the Awana Olympics because she didn't pass enough sections. Her mom blamed me and went to the pastor and Commander about it. The child was allowed to go. What was the point of setting rules if they will be foregone when someone complains? According to Director handbooks, sections aren't even to be signed off on if the kids can't tell you what the verses mean. I tried to enforce that, but was told that's too much to expect. These weren't big, flowery verses, either. I'm glad to be out of it, and I wouldn't put Jeannie in it if I had the chance. In theory it might be an okay program, but personalities can really ruin something good.
... and none of the incidents I just described touched on the melee that was created when I told the class we needed to 'shut up and come on' before we ran out of time. You'd have thought I blasphemed. I got told shut up is swear words. I got told by one parent that hush up is okay. I don't see a large difference there. I got told to apologize, and don't begin by saying 'if I offended you', because of course I offended everyone. Can you imagine? To me, 'be quiet' can sound harsh depending on how you say it. Remember, this class was being interrupted every few minutes. I was probably at the end of my rope. I laugh at it now, because there's a lot of hypocrites at my church. If it wasn't for their Children's Church program I wouldn't stay there. I must have done something right in that program, because I was a teacher from'94-02 and director from '96-02!
Becky, I'm so sorry you had such a bad experience with AWANAS! We've been involved with the program now for about 7 years, and love it. Our adults have all been wonderful, caring people. My cousin brought her Cubbie son, who had a little speech problem and didn't talk much. She was concerned that he wouldn't "say" his verses. They weren't concerned about it, told her that they would ask him questions and not worry about him "saying" it. My one daughter can be a little...difficult. One leader (who also had a "difficult" child) understood her. She chose my Faythe as her "special friend" so that she could sit next to Faythe...as a friend, rather than as an adult trying to keep her under control. One leader has a sleep-over for the 3rd and 4th grade girls each year; it is a highlight for the kids! And anyone who finished the book gets to go to a free end-of-year party. My girls have learned so much there!
