Week 6
1043 words by mlathon
My project has gotten a pretty slow start due to a host of reasons. For starters its quite hard finding time between school, work, and most importantly being a single parent of two but i decided that every day if i spend a little time working on my projet it will start to add up. So thats what i’ve been doing wheher its just checking out other organizations on the web or just sitting back and watching the way children interact with people on a day to day basis. Within the next week or so i plan to start contacting some schools and other resources that might be interested in helping me with my project. I have a pretty good feeling that I will get a good response i mean after all my project is dealing with kids and i mean who can resist them? I guess i also need to organize all of my ideas into like one large rough draft on paper so i can begin to visualize my project because right now i just have so many ideas running rampant through my head. I have created a quiz for children to take with their parents to see if they can recognize strangers. I have also put together some tips for parents and teachers.
How does your child react when approached by someone unfamiliar? Even preschoolers can learn what to do and what not to do when confronted by a stranger. Here are some tips:
Avoid scare tactics: It can be upsetting for a child to feel she lives in a dangerous world filled with strangers who are out to do her harm. It’s far more helpful for her to experience the world as basically a safe place. She just needs to know and follow a few simple rules.
Talk about what’s okay: Tell her, “When you’re with Mom or Dad and someone you don’t know says hello to you, it’s nice to say hello back to them.”
Talk about what’s not okay: You can tell your child that most people are nice and friendly and want to help each other. But there are a few bad people who want to harm others. One way you know them is if they ask you to go with them without telling your parents, your teacher, or your babysitter.
Discuss strategies: “What can you do when a stranger tries to get you to come with him or her? What can you say? Can you ask for help?” Together, make a list of the ideas you come up with, like testing the stranger with a secret password, running away and yelling “Help!”, asking a nearby grownup to help you, looking for a police officer, or going to the nearest store, etc. Then choose the ones your child is most comfortable with.
Role play: Play the part of a stranger who may seem friendly and innocent but really isn’t: “Hi, want to come to my house? I have a big bag of candy for you” or “Your mother is in the hospital, and she told me to come and get you and bring you to her.” By rehearsing the scenario in advance, you will have given your child the means and the confidence to protect himself if he’s ever confronted with the real thing.
Seeing as to how im twenty years old and am in my third year of college i should have a pretty clear cut idea of what i want to do with my life but the reality of the situation is that unfortunately idea and eats away at me every single day. I mean i know i want a high paying job but not at the cost of happiness. When I was sophmore in high school idecided i wanted to be a pharmacist and i stuck with that all the way through my first semester as a sophmore in college. Then something in me changed i realized i didnt want to be confined behind a counter filling prescriptions day in and day out. If i had decided to stick with that profession i guess there is something from. Feminist criticism is used to highlight the many positive portrayals of women in the Bible, to expose the many times people interpret women’s actions in the Bible in a misogynistic way, and to better understand what life was like for women in biblical times. Feminist Criticism is a valuable tool for like helping biblical scholars be more aware of how the Bible portrays women and women’s issues, and like how these portrayals have been totally (mis)interpreted to justify the mistreatment of women through the centuries. Scripture tells us that one of the significant differences in roles is that God made men to lead, provide for, and protect women–particularly their wives–in a humble and servant-like (i.e., Christ-like) manner. This cannot be rejected simply by an appeal to our essential equality, for essential equality permits significant differences in roles. So far is essential equality from ruling out authority and submission, indeed, that Scripture tells us that Jesus Christ, the Creator of heaven and earth, the King of kings and Lord of lords, submitted willingly to Joseph and Mary, His essential inferiors (Luke 2:51), and that He submits willingly to God the Father, His essential equal (1 Corinthians 15:28). Eve’s first sin was not eating the forbidden fruit but stepping out from under Adam’s authority to deal with the serpent herself and then to tempt Adam to sin by offering him the fruit. God’s words of judgment bring her face to face with her insubordination and assure her that she will not prosper in it.
In short, male tyranny over females stems from the fall and the curse, but the godly and loving authority of husbands over wives and of male leaders in the church stems from creation and is restored in redemption.
On the midterm i didnt do so hot and thats because i didn’t spend enought time preparing for the exam I didnt realize how much information there really was until I actually started studying which was just like two or three days before the test date.