Practical Skill of Parenting
June 28, 2008
I try to keep things on this blog positive and not rant when things get under my skin, but today is an exception! I am so disgusted and angry. Why does God continue to hold back His wrath on our country?
Then yesterday I read what Spunky had to say:
Watch the video trailers. In Where's Happy Baby, one mother lays down the law and scolds the teen couple for their failure to parent properly at bedtime; telling the teen parents that the baby has bonded and they need to "suck it up and solve the need." Yet, the mother has just loaned her baby out who needs her comfort not some teen in training. Another mother intervenes when her baby has not been fed all day; she admonishes the teen that life's not about her any more it's about her baby. But that's not her baby and the teen knows it and so does the baby. Someone should be scolding the real parents of these babies, not the TV teens! After all life is not about them anymore. What life lesson are they teaching their own babies and toddlers?
The Baby Borrower's website tells how parents "donated" their baby for the "experiment".
Those that know me know that I am not an overly emotional person, but this literally makes me sick to my stomach! I am beyond angry. How in the world can parents hand over their child who is 100% dependent on them for something so STUPID? These children are given as gifts from God and to treat them as an object ENRAGES me.
Also, on the website it has a poll asking 'When are couples best prepared to become parents?" And of course it gives a list of ages. It has nothing to do with age, it has to do with maturity and MARRIAGE! Do you hear me yelling? Young couples can make wonderful parents if their world view is correct. Today's view of marriage and children is so out of kilter. Marriage is to be embraced, children are to be embraced, according to God's Word!!! God put us here to be fruitful and multiply, not engage in sex with whoever we want to. It is suppose to be one man for one woman, for one lifetime!
What is just as sad as people donating their precious babies for a STUPID TV show, is that this will encourage not only birth control (that usually causes early abortions, although Planned Parenthood and doctors won't tell you that because there is too money involved) , but it will add to the number of abortions. The show obviously will help teens see that a baby is not for them. What if their 'birth control' fails? Abortion is the quickest, least expensive way to kill their problem, their BABY!
Why not do a show on the consequences of pre-marital sex, or extra-marital sex; shattered marriages, STDs, lives of suffering, neglected children, emotional pain, families torn apart… Now wouldn't that make a good reality show? I doubt it because it would be TOO REAL!
I am so angry!!! On one had I say let's throw the TV out and not see anything, but on the other hand we need to know a little of what is happening to our culture. I know I need a slap in the face once in a while with something like this to get me angry, angry enough to stand up and fight to reclaim our culture.
May God have mercy on us.
So now that we are disgusted about the Baby Borrowers what are you going to do about it?
It's not enough to spout off on a blog or to our friends, which I've done plenty of lately, but we need to take action.
Suggestions:
Pray, which is most important. Pray for a revival in this nation and that Christians will repent of their complacency and even worse, their bad attitude about children. Pray we would be bold enough to share God's truth, not only about salvation but about how we are to live.
Write a letter to your editor, I am doing that! Actually I am writing to both of our small, local papers and to the larger one in Birmingham.
Comment on their website, I just did. I know I will be made fun of, called names and so on, but MAYBE someone, maybe even a teen will realize there IS another way to look at this issue.
Will any of this make a difference? I don't know, but at least I will have a clear conscience before the Lord.
Will you do anything?
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