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#5,916 OhPleaseJustQuit
NotfooledbyW, I'd like to know where you stand on Hilary Clinton's "It takes a village to raise a child" statement. Do you agree?
NFBW: I agree with actual HRC quotes from her book, yes If that is what you mean?
NFBW: horrifying isn’t it for you hate filled scared as shit fascists isn’t it?
More quotes from Hillary Rodham Clinton,
It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us
Home is a child's first and most
They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them precisous time and attention instead.
First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.
Parenthood has the power to redefine every aspect of life - marriage, work, relationships with family and friends. Those helpless bundles of power and promise that come into our world show us our true selves- who we are, who we are not, who we wish we could be.
The episodic, reactive, almost frantic pace of what is broadcast makes children feel and act frantic and shortens their attention spans and their patience for activities that take time and problems that don't yield immediate solutions.
Knowing what to expect next gives
forward-thinking teachers and school administrators across the country are creating a whole range of alternatives to cookie-cutter teaching and evaluation methods, such as the use of student portfolios and exhibitions in addition to conventional exams to assess students' progress.
. . .standards are for: They establish what children should know, not
we are living in an interdependent world where what our children hear, see, feel, and learn will affect how they grow up and who they turn out to be.
In times of profound and overwhelming social change like the present, however, extreme views hold out the appeal of simplicity. By ignoring the complexity of the forces that shape our personal and collective circumstances, they offer us scapegoats. Yet they fail to provide a viable pathway from the cold war to the global village.
Anti-government rhetoric appears to offer a vision of greater efficiency, self-reliance, and personal freedom. (For obvious reasons, it also usually enjoys greater financial backing and better organized support.) Unfortunately, this rhetoric ignores what has historically been most valuable about our skepticism toward government—the emphasis it places on personal responsibility from all citizens. Instead, it argues against the excesses of government but not against those of the marketplace, where there is great power to disrupt the lives of workers, families, and communities. It even argues against the basic protections government extends to the well-being of individuals, families, and communities, without offering an alternative way of safeguarding them.
In fact, its extreme case against government, often including intense personal attacks on government officials and political leaders, is designed not just to restrain government but to advance narrow religious, political, and economic agendas.
ding above bold is for you. Anti-abortion extremism is all part of that
Let us admit that some government programs and personnel are efficient and effective, and others are not. Let us acknowledge that when it comes to the treatment of children, some individuals are evil, neglectful, or incompetent, but others are trying to do the best they can against daunting odds and deserve not our contempt but the help only we—through our government—can provide. Let us stop stereotyping government and individuals as absolute villains or absolute saviors, and recognize that each must be part of the solution. Let us use government, as we have in the past, to further the common good.
Our strength, in other words, has rested in our determination to reject simplistic absolutes and to redefine and revitalize a productive middle ground, relinquishing outdated solutions and embracing new approaches. As President Lincoln said in his time, 'The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Making the decision to have a child—it’s wondrous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. Hillary Rodham Clinton,
It Takes a Village
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#22 greenerpastures “One example is abortion. It really pains me to know all those children created by God are being destroyed and no one will ever know that person (etc). Then again, it is the people who don't feel badly about that that we should worry about---
NFBW: You know
greenerpastures there’s billions of born children who need the best villages that advanced rational wise human beings can bestow upon them. Why not take advice from every person who at least spends some time thinking about it.
The defectors leader of the Republican political machines is having lunch in his palace with a racist anti-Semitic White supremacy leader and ye - do you think the suffering of children around the world was the topic of discussion?
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