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  How Do You Discipline YOUR Kids?

  by MrMoe in

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  curious... how do you discipline your children and why?

  spank or not to spank?

  are your kids brats (and be honest here.).

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  giantjason

  Good Topic Moe!

  I have 2 children on is my 3 yr old boy who is about as perfect as they come.Although he has his days. I find that consistency is key. I think he is a tiny bit on the spoiled side but mostly he is very well behaved. Usually if he gets out of line I can count to 3 an by 2 he is back on track. If he decides not to listen then he gets a timeout 99,9% of the time that'll do the trick. The knock out blow for him is to take away his DVD's or his Friday night pony rides. He has been a very good boy since we brouth him home.

  My daughter...oh My beautiful little Daughter. She is 8 months old and I am truely frightened. She is the exact opposite of my son. She already yells at us if she doesn't get he way, She can throw temper tantrums with the best of them, all in all she is a little princess. I have no idea how we are going to handle her but it's going to be a ride. I can tell already she's going to be very rebellious and going to need a lot of "guidance".

  Spanking....Before I had kids I always said I wouldn't spank...BWHAHAHAH was I an idiot. We don't do it often, but someties it is waranted lets say for example if my son decides to wrestle with his sister and lays across her belly. Anything dangerous we will slap a hand Liek if he's sticking a fork in the wall socket or something. Honestly I can't remember the last time I spanked him. Ther are much more effective ways to hanlde things.
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  Your View On Capital Punishment

  by Dutchie in

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  we all know the bible's view on capital punishment.

  in fact, in the 1969 edition of aid to bible understanding, the author notes the following: .

  "the value of life is considered so sacred by god that the blood of a murdered person is viewed by him as defiling the earth and such defilement can be cleansed only by shedding the blood of the murdered.

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  I believe in it wholeheartedly. Even though our judicial system sucks there needs to be some real consequences. I think anyone convicted by dna evidence should die period. If no DNA then Life.
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  Does God Really Care?

  by Undecided in

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  i'm wondering about god lately.

  is he really in touch with the earth at all?

  how much trouble would it be for him to bring a rain in colorado to stop the fires and save the houses of those people?

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  giantjason

  Godd question, I often poder in a similar way. I think gid put us here to do what we wish, Honestly I think he doesn't care, or maybe he lets things like thi happen to remind us that we are a bunch of morons sometimes. I just try to do my thing and not bother anyone else, If i see a wrong, I try to right it. I also try to keep an open mind to everything.
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  HOW DO YOU ENJOY YOUR FREEDOM?

  by bay64me in

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  question for ex jws.......what do you really enjoy doing, now that you have the freedom to do it?

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  My wife goes nutz at christmas......She loves it. especially with the kids now, I think she gets more into it than I do now!! Also birthdays, and all the other fun holidays. Our Son was alittle devil for his first halloween, I couldn't believe she let me do that. I posted the pictures on the web that I KNOW her JW family constantly checks.....I love harmlessly jabbing them once in awhile.
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  Why Ex-JWs Will Never Go From Door to Door

  by comforter in

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  jehovah's witnesses proclaim the good news of the kingdom under the power of god's holy spirit.

  jesus commanded his followers to preach in the most distant parts of the earth and promised them that the spirit of god would guide them in this life-saving work (acts 1:8).. without the spirit of god, one cannot continue preaching about jesus and god's kingdom (matthew 24:14).

  one surely will not have god's spirit if one preaches a negative message (against jehovah's servants) from door to door.

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  giantjason

  Comforter,

  You mentioned you do not fraternize or hobnob with outed bretheren?? What the hell are you doing right now?
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  Pledge of Allegiance

  by giantjason in

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  a bill by sen. william ``pete'' knight would require that all california schoolchildren say the pledge of allegiance daily.

  under sb 1248, public school teachers would have to lead students in saying the pledge at the beginning of each school day.

  this is very interesting, although i seriously doubt it would pass.

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  giantjason

  A bill by Sen. William ``Pete'' Knight would require that all California schoolchildren say the Pledge of Allegiance daily. Under SB 1248, public school teachers would have to lead students in saying the pledge at the beginning of each school day.

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  This is very interesting, Although I seriously doubt it would pass. I do not support it. What would happen if it did? What would JW's do in this situation? Pull thier kids out of school? I have often wondered as well, why don't JW's start their own JW schools? It makes more sense to completely shelter children form the "worldies"?

  What do you guys think?
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  Surviving the Hearing to DF Me.

  by Sentinel in

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  i must say that reading all these posts have really brought back so many memories for me.

  i had a terrible experience at my hearing, which i believe now, really bordered on sexual abuse of the mental kind.. our congregation was small.

  this was difficult for the few young people that attended.

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  giantjason

  Sentinel, My wife has actually been DF'd twice, once before I knew her and the 2nd time was after we moved in together. I think the first time was for smoking.drinking and they found out she was sleeping with her boyfriend. She told me that they did the same thing, "did he penetrate?" ,"Did you enjoy it" Positions, etc. As a fatther....If anyone ever subjected my daughter to that ,I would probably end up in jail for assault. How her father Who was an elder at one point allowed this I will never know. Anyhow, she went back and begged for mercy and was reinstated a year or so later. I willnever forget the day they came to our house to df her. They had been hunting her for awhile. We would see them waiting for us at our house and she would freak out and make me leave. In my younger days I wa a bit of a Psycho. I just wanted to walk up to them and beat them(I now know that would have been wrong... >=) ). ANyhow one morning I woke up and heard my wife crying and I heard men in my house, I was a bit hungover from the night before so I was not in the greatest of moods. At the time I had long hair almost to my butt, a very long goatee(it was a grunge thing gimme a break) Many times I was told I loked like the devil himself. I listened for a second and figured out what was going on. My wife was sobbing and these bastards were reading her the riot act and showing know sympathy whatsoever. I lit up a ciggarette walked out with no shirt and said "What the F*ck is going on here, and who the f*ck are these mother f'rs!!" I watched both guys about piss themselves. My wife choked out the words "they are disfellowshipping me". I looked at tehm and asked them "I hope you are finshes because you have 2 seconds to get the f*ck out of my house you peice of sh*t". They quickly grabbed their things and left. We knew it was coming but it still pissed me off that they would come to my house and pull that. How would they feel if I walked into a meeting packed full of people and told them all how stupid they are?? Sorry you had to go through that Sentinel. And I was a very young rebellious boy back then, I now handle things differently, I still thinks it's funny though.
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  I did something really stupid.... :(

  by Eppie in

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  hey,.

  ok, i need all the advice i can get...... last week i told my sister (she is jw, as is my entire family) that i did something stupid.

  i had just broken up with my boyfriend because he was cheating on me.... and in some kind of drunk-revenge-mood i slept with his best friend..... .

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  giantjason

  If you feel that you are not a JW anymore than absolutely do not go to the elders. You owe them NOTHING. If your sister tells then she tells there is nothing you can do about it. You do not have to submit anything to thier investigation period. Was there 2 wintesses to this act? If not by jw rules they can't do anythign about it. But we all know that if they want you out you will be out. You know you made a mistake, Make peace with yourself, you don't owe anything to anyone else but yourself.
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  non-jw family might hire jw nanny--r we crazy?

  by fred in

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  we are a non-jw family with 2 kids under 5 thinking about hiring a jw live in nanny.

  she is in her 30's, active jw.

  we all have talked about mutual respect for each others religions, and all agreed to a hands off policy.

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  giantjason

  It's very simple, Jehova's rules and laws come before all alse. If she is a strict Jehova there is no way the religion will not become a factor. I have nothing against anyone in any religion until they give me reason. Although I seriuosly doubt I would hire a jw to care for my children, BUT if you feel that this woman would be the best thing for your children and you trust her that she will not bring the religion home then by al means do what is best for your kids.
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  devil in church

  by carolbell in

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  i was watching my daughters children last year.

  thy were going to vacation bible school.

  my son who is a j.w.

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  giantjason

  Heh, Sentinel

  Once again I am reminded of some of the things I went through. About 2 years after My wife and I got together(and very soon after her DF). A very close cousin of mine was murdered. My family are all catholics so of couse they had mass in the big church etc. My wife didn't want to go in...I got pissed and basically guilted her in to going in. She was very uncomfortable and as soon as the mass was over she ran out of there. At the time I didn't understand. I feel the same as you now, I don't need anyone to tell me how to love god, my family or myself. It's just not for me. My wife is still torn, she feels the need to be spiritual but doesn't think thats posisble without some sort of"help" form a church or whatever....Man those bastards did a number on her. It makes me so mad because it seems so logical to me. Now(10 8 years later) She doens't have any problem going into a church for funerals, weedings etc. I just remember how weird it was to me when she told me they weren't allowed to go into a church.

  Jason