Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Boys take backseat
We already know men are being emasculated in society by the feminazis, and here’s more proof that it starts early with boys in school.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Consciousness of being beloved
Plunging birth rates may have more to do with lack of faith in the future of one’s country than anything else, says this report.
No one knows. But by not having children, people are voting against the future—their countries’ and, perhaps, their own. It is easy to imagine the sacrifices and disappointments of raising children. It is hard, try as people might, to imagine the intense joys and selfish pleasures. People ignore Adam Smith’s keen insight: “[The] chief part of human happiness arises from the consciousness of being beloved.”
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Anti-SAHM Studies Continue
The daycare propaganda machine is really stretching for studies to justify moms not raising their own children full time, to wit.
According to new research carried out in Britain, working mothers enjoy better health than full-time housewives. Despite the stress working mothers face by holding down a job, dealing with childcare, housework and striving to keep the family happy.
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Woman’s world
Fred says it’s becoming a woman’s world.
Manliness certainly isn’t in demand. The women of today seem to want a metrosexual who loves to shop, helps with the housework, and never does anything that she wouldn’t want to do. He may wear an earring. Modern marriage sounds like a sort of heterosexual lesbianism. The man should be as little like a man as possible while having complementary genitals.
Monday, April 10, 2006
Damn childcare numbers
Goldstein is sick of the daycare lobby’s bleating over their lost daycare billion dollar baby.
Parents who chose to stay at home and look after their children would receive no benefit at all.
Nor would the majority of parents with children in child care who do not use institutional daycare centres, but other options such as having a relative or neighbour care for their young children, either inside or outside the family home.
Saturday, April 8, 2006
Halton kids
Interesting read on the people of Halton’s (and I suspect most of the country) take on this annoying daycare debate.
So I was standing at the front of a Town Hall meeting a few weeks back, in Oakville, and we were talking about child care. Things were getting hot.
Friday, April 7, 2006
Take my baby
This cartoon really illustrates the whole debate. Why are women so eager to give their kids to the government? It really makes no sense, but this in effect is what the daycare lobby is telling everyone.
Is the daycare lobby really so powerful, or is it true that women would prefer to work than raise their kids?
Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Child rearing, Hollywood style
Just desserts for Sharon Stone and her treatment of her kid - her movie skidded into the ditch on takeoff.
THERE’S a good reason why Sharon Stone had a first-class seat last Friday flying from New York to Los Angeles while her 9-month-old son, Laird, sat in coach with his nanny.
Christ, even her handbag flew first class.
Working girls, broken society
Alison Wolf asks why government is steering women away from child rearing, without examining the future cost to society.
Families remain central to the care of the old and sick, as well as raising the next generation, and yet our economy and society steer ever more educated women away from marriage or childbearing.
via Blog This
The weak and the poor may overtake the first world without guns or ammo, by sheer numbers. They’ll just walk in and take over the golden palaces our working people will die in.
Monday, April 3, 2006
Supreme sacrifice
Just watched March of the Penguins ($US orders), and seeing the sacrifice *both* parents go through to raise their 1 chick, no human should ever complain about the sacrifice they make for their progeny.
Saturday, April 1, 2006
Results of the Great Abdication
The roosters are coming home to roost for absentee parents.
For girls, is 12 the new 15? Here’s why:
Ms. Dimerman says today’s parents are more reluctant than previous generations to set limitations or impose consequences for their children, a new parenting dynamic she attributes to factors such as the challenges of parenting after divorce and the increased time crunch of two-income families.
“Parents often don’t want to be in their kid’s bad books,” she says. “They may indulge their children, either with material things, or by not saying, ‘No.’ ”
Some related reading:
Home-Alone America : Why Today’s Kids Are Overmedicated, Overweight, and More Troubled Than Ever Before ($US orders)
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Husband On Strike
I hate that I can relate to this guy.
I’m constantly pleading with my wife about how it’s important for me to have our bedroom feel like a place of rest and peace.
If not exactly the same circumstances, I’m sure most men can relate on some level when kids enter the marriage equation.
via Debbie Schlussel
Monday, March 27, 2006
Good luck with that
Wonder if this campaign will catch on here.
The fight for unborn rights begins in the carpool lane.
via JWalk
Friday, March 24, 2006
The drugging of our boys
They may see worms, but at least they’re calm.
Dr. Thomas B. Newman, an epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who is a member of the pediatric advisory committee, estimated that out of 100 patients treated for a year with stimulants, 2 to 5 will suffer serious psychotic episodes like hallucinations.
These stats are amazing:
In the United States alone, about 2.5 million children and 1.5 million adults take them; as many as 10 percent of boys ages 10 to 12 do
Monday, March 20, 2006
Seven Myths of Working Mothers
Here’s a review of Seven Myths of Working Mothers ($US orders)
No wonder children are growing to adulthood with serious misconceptions about commitment and attachment! The most important people in their lives, parents - and particularly mothers - are being taught that leaving their children should become easy and natural. In 7 Myths of Working Mothers, Suzanne Venker examines why increasing numbers of mothers are entering the workforce, and how this decision resonates in their children’s lives.
Full Time Mothers - “Job Vacancy”
Here’s a job that’s rarely filled today.
Job Vacancy
Author unkown
POSITION: Mother, Mum, Mama, Ma
JOB DESCRIPTION: Long term, team players needed, for challenging
permanent work in an often chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication and organisational skills and be willing to work variable hours, which
via Sara
Surrendering your duties
Another sickening but common story of a mother missing the best years of her kids’ lives.
2 and graduating? What the hell are we doing to our kids?Nat’s just 2 but she’s already “graduated” from the junior to the senior room at daycare.
This room is where both Nat and her older brother Will, 4, entered society as independent beings. And it’s where Mom had to let go. The teachers here held Nat and Will as they cried when they adjusted to Mom returning to work.
It’s where Nat and Will learned how to sit in a circle, how to stand in a line, be respectful of others (no biting and hitting) and how to dance.
This is where the kids will learn the skills that mommies are supposed to teach their kids.
I love how she glosses over the crying as Mom returns to work.
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Bad for the brain
More proof that daycare is not meant for babies.
Australian psychologist and author Steve Biddulph has concluded that daycare damages babies’ brain chemistry and affects social and emotional development.
Seems a waste to study this, since it’s really common sense, but what the heck, the SAHM camp needs all the ammo it can get in the tidal wave movement to kennelize kids.
Friday, March 17, 2006
Sorry I’m late
They may be isolated cases, but some daycare stories sure are disturbing.
A day-care centre in Laval has fired two workers after a child was left inside after closing time.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Sir Paul and baby seals
Gairdner takes on the abortion issue, starting with the famous Beatle and baby seals.
But I don’t get it. Where is the outrage about the killing of cute baby humans? I promise not to exaggerate. I am just asking a question. Why have we never seen a photo of Sir Paul in a Canadian hospital reaching out with heart-rending sympathy to touch the nose of a freshly-aborted human baby?
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Daycare again
Nothing much is happening in Canada these days, so the feminists are beating the daycare drums, as if anyone really cares. Here’s a good entry from the Amazon.
What would have helped me as a working parent in providing care for my children? Lower taxes. The government has so completely mauled my paycheque with its standard deductions that it severely lowered my options and affected the bread and butter quality of my family’s life.
Monday, March 13, 2006
Big Love Big Scare
Anyone else watch Big Love last night? I thought I may as well, since I was already tuned to the Sopranos.
You’d think that the Sopranos would be the disturbing show between the two.
Big Love, if even half true, is so full of tension, I felt my head was ready to explode trying to keep track of the incredible matrix of interactions.
It’s the ultimate advertisement for monogamy, and maybe even birth control. Scary stuff.
Mormons Don’t Want To Be Misunderstood
Update: Slate reviews
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
There IS a difference
Gairdner lays out the differences between men and women’s brains. Really. Why is this so controversial?
Summers made the politically incorrect mistake of musing that there may be “innate differences” between men and women that could be the explanation for why so few women excel at the highest levels of the maths and sciences.
The sooner the education system realizes there are differences, and addresses them, the better off everyone, especially boys, will be.
The Unpopularity of Parenthood
More on the population decline of Western nations from a religious point of view.
It is not difficult to see how a materialistic society that exalts individual excellence and personal fulfillment is less inclined to dedicate itself to the sacrificial effort that large families demand. As men and women become educated and success-oriented, often their focus drifts away from family and children.
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Had lunch yet?
Is there any doubt that the Western world is eating too much?